Difficult Terrain

[Joker]

How many corpses (the really dead ones) would you need in any square for you to consider it difficult terrain?

 

[Dross]

How many corpses (the really dead ones) would you need in any square for you to consider it difficult terrain?

Not sure of a rule for this so "common sense" it

I'd say 3 for medium size, but anything more than one could do it and I wouldn't have a problem with a DM calling it at 2. I see one corpse as being similar to a helpless person in the square that you can charge through.

Large corpses in a 5 foot square I can see requiring only one corpse. Things like gelatinous cubes and molds would make all the squares they covered difficult terrain since they basically take up the entire floor space.

 

[IamTheTest]

Hmmm...morbid. How many bodies would it take to fill 25 sq ft? Id say 2-3 would make it a bit tough.

 

[Artoomis]

I think one is enough to require you to step over or around it, which would make it be, in effect, rough terrain.

Frankly, though, we don't worry about stuff like that in our game.

 

[Joker]

Normally, I don't worry about it either. Except in a certain scenario coming up where a great deal of bodies will hit the floor and the combat will still be raging.

 

[Whimsical]

The SRD says "You can move through a square occupied by a helpless opponent without penalty. (Some creatures, particularly very large ones, may present an obstacle even when helpless. In such cases, each square you move through counts as 2 squares.)"

From that I only have Huge or greater sized creatures make difficult terrain when they are defeated.

The SRD also says about Crowds "It takes 2 squares of movement to enter a square with crowds."

The DMG II, pg. 59 says "As a general rule, a single 5-foot square ocupied by a crowd of Medium creatures contain three Medium creatures."

From all of this, I would extrapolate that a square would need at least three Medium corpses to make it difficult terrain.

 

[Sejs]

3 sounds reasonable.

 

[mvincent]

I agree: one prone/dead Huge creature should count as hindering terrain.

I would also accept:
2 large
4 medium
8 small

... but I would only keep track of such things if they became important for some reasons (with being able to jump during a charge and such, it's usually a moot point).

 

[Sithobi1]

You can't normally jump during a charge unless you have Leap Attack.

 

[Sejs]

You can't normally jump during a charge unless you have Leap Attack.

Actually that's not true. You can jump during a charge, it's just that if you have Leap Attack you get more out of it.