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<blockquote data-quote="moticon" data-source="post: 1625097" data-attributes="member: 20701">Fly to avoid Giants?Last week in my daughter's gaming group they surprised a small hill giant hunting party. 3 Hill giants spread about the battle map attacked from 3 different directions.&nbsp; The wizard (7th level) was blasting away at the one on the right, but was also *Very* exposed to the return fire of the giant's boulders. After two of those he was down to 4 hit points. He had already cast fly earlier and his decision on how to use it was to fly 90' straight up and cast another offensive spell... Uh Oh...&nbsp;&nbsp; With his AC of 14 he was suddenly a sitting/flying duck.&nbsp; The other party members groaned (as did I) knowing full well he'd be a target. I decided to give him a break because there was also a wolf and druid attacking the giant although not doing much damage. I rolled a die to select the target, with the odds on favorite being the wizard. He *was* the target.&nbsp; The boulder easily whacked him and it was time to roll the damage (2d6+7).. I roll the dice out in front now so I can't fudge it.&nbsp; I decided to roll them one at a time... 7 HP damage to start, first d6 was... a 5!&nbsp; The only way he could survive was a 1... 2nd d6... a &quot;1&quot;!The whole table shouted and the cleric ran pell-mell to help the slowly descending wizard...&nbsp; It was great drama and now the party is taking bets on how long before he really does die...Moticon</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moticon, post: 1625097, member: 20701"] [b]Fly to avoid Giants?[/b] Last week in my daughter's gaming group they surprised a small hill giant hunting party. 3 Hill giants spread about the battle map attacked from 3 different directions. The wizard (7th level) was blasting away at the one on the right, but was also *Very* exposed to the return fire of the giant's boulders. After two of those he was down to 4 hit points. He had already cast fly earlier and his decision on how to use it was to fly 90' straight up and cast another offensive spell... Uh Oh... With his AC of 14 he was suddenly a sitting/flying duck. The other party members groaned (as did I) knowing full well he'd be a target. I decided to give him a break because there was also a wolf and druid attacking the giant although not doing much damage. I rolled a die to select the target, with the odds on favorite being the wizard. He *was* the target. The boulder easily whacked him and it was time to roll the damage (2d6+7).. I roll the dice out in front now so I can't fudge it. I decided to roll them one at a time... 7 HP damage to start, first d6 was... a 5! The only way he could survive was a 1... 2nd d6... a "1"! The whole table shouted and the cleric ran pell-mell to help the slowly descending wizard... It was great drama and now the party is taking bets on how long before he really does die... Moticon [/QUOTE]

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