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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4543886" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">That's not quite how I imagine it. Electricity that gets through the resistance causes the gumberoo to <strong><em>explode </em></strong>if it fails the Fort save.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The gumberoo 'pops' (just as messily but for less damage) if it takes sufficient damage from a weapon or sonic attack.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">To make sure the gumberoo's likelihood of saving against exploding felt right, I worked out a few sample DCs for the likelihood of a Gumberoo (Fort save +11) exploding when hit by various attacks from a 6th level character, as follows:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span>   <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Explosive Sums</span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Torch </strong>- 1 fire, DC 11. 5% failure chance (inc +50% damage from vulnerability)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Alchemist's Fire</strong> - 1d6 fire, average DC 15. 15% failure chance</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Shocking Grasp</strong> - 5d6 electricity, average DC 17/–. 25%/– failure chance (inc. resist electricity 10) - </span><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Not recommended, since it's a Touch attack!</span></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Flaming Sphere</strong> - 2d6 fire, average DC 20. 40% failure chance</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Lightning Bolt</strong> -  6d6 electricity, average DC 21/–. 45%/– failure chance (inc. resist electricity 10)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Fireball </strong>- 6d6 fire, average DC 41/25. 95%/65% failure chance (inc fire vulnerability)<strong> - </strong></span><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Boom!</span></em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Incidentally, the folktale gumberoo is <strong>completely invulnerable </strong>to human-scale non-fiery weapons, not even the impact of a six inch shell could harm one. Having them pop when struck hard enough was something I lifted from a SF novel's version of the gumberoo, in which they were basically like D&D's Gas Spores.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Since D&D doesn't support impenetrable Damage Resistance since 3rd edition began I wrote up what is effectively DR = hp effective against piercing/slashing/bludgeoning/sonic damage, but if it's exceeded the gumberoo automatically goes pop.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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