Do you provoke AoO's while invisible?

[Darklone]

No joke, in my games it happened more than once that players attacked some square blindly and chose the right space plus rolled well against the concealment... Though they knew there was some invis baddy around.

 

[Rvdvelden]

The last pixie rogue I've seen got killed in a multitude of Icestorms.

1) I smell a setup (even a DM shouldn't metagame that much)
2) His SR was penetrated on every account?!?

 

[glass]

1) I smell a setup (even a DM shouldn't metagame that much)
2) His SR was penetrated on every account?!?

Doesn't need to be every account, just once or twice. Pixie PCs have crappy hp.

And how is it metagaming for a caster facing a small invisible critter to blanket the area it is known/suspected to be in with area damage. Seems like what any sensible caster would do, to me.


glass.

 

[Rvdvelden]

If he was blanketting the area, only 1, maybe 2 ice storms could've covered the area the pixie was in. Both penetrated ánd killed the pixie? Seems unlikely to me.

Besides, any real sensible caster would have something like true seeing or see invisibility at the ready for such an occasion, instead of wasting so much resources in order to cover an entire area where an invisible create míght be.

 

[Folly]

The last pixie rogue I've seen got killed in a multitude of Icestorms.

Ah, the joys of level adjusted races, and full progression spell casting bad guys.

 

[Darklone]

Ah, the joys of level adjusted races, and full progression spell casting bad guys.

Hehehe yeah. And a real joyful spellcaster with scribe scroll and many available minions who were able to use scrolls, a rather small area and a pixie with less than 30 hitpoints...

... and a group of heros who were nice enough to announce their assault... and who were well known to love evasion and their Refl saves.

SR might have saved him but I tend to roll pretty deadly with d20s. I think the initial assault consisted of 6 icestorms blanketing the whole area, he got caught in three and was dying (neg hp) after I rolled nearly max damage for the first one.

If you're a pixie rogue, don't go anywhere halfways healed.

PS: a real sensible caster might have had see invis prepared... but this dude was a druid and he wasnt going for the pixie, that assault nearly downed the whole group who were relying on good saves, fire, acid and lightning resistances and evasion. And this druid had fought them twice before.

 

[Rvdvelden]

Ah, so a setup indeed! ;-)

But one that is perfectly logical, nothing cheesy about this one (at least not in my book).

 

[Folly]

So your saying that your party was foolish to think the same tricks would work over, and over again.

I like the idea of playing the various races that have LA, but always end up looking at the resulting HP and scraping the idea. Being able to buy off LA helps, but the early levels are still scary.

 

[Artoomis]

... And this druid had fought them twice before.

Well, after two previous battles it seems like the druid got smart.

I like the idea that a powerful party gets to be well-known, including their general tactics and strengths and weaknesses. So that a BBG knowing of them, and being prepared for them, would not be out of line at all.

But I am getting off-topic...