[FR][PBP] Against the Storm Game Thread

[MeepoTheMighty]

Frian will lay there and bleed for a while. Hopefully some of the poison will have a chance to bleed out of my system.

 

[dead_radish]

Elone will go with the flow, and bleed as well. Maybe there's bonus xp in it for us.

 

[Elric]

Alexander will cut the net off of Ubaar and say softly "I'll back you up if you want to take the leader." If Ubaar charges at the drow leader, Alex will swing over to flank him at the same time, hopefully getting an attack with Expert Tactician. He will also try to dodge the attacks of the Drow leader.

(OOC: In the future, we need better group planning for fights)

 

[garyh]

Akharos, too, will go with laying in pain.

 

[dead_radish]

OOC: Yes, yes we do. But it makes sense - this is our first battle together, and we've never discussed tactics. Elone and Alcar might have been more effective together had I not dropped in the first round.

*Goes to look up how to become immune to poison*

We also need to get ourselves some healing items, I'm thinking.

IC: Gush, gush, groan, wiggle in pain, gush, groan, moan.

 

[DM_Matt]

OOC: Ubaar has taken 16+18+30, so 64...ALMOST running on rage)

Alex cuts the net off Ubaar and he charges...Meanwhile, Alcar's arrowhawk appears and blasts one of the snipers, who is hurt pretty badly but still alive. Alex meanwhile swings on a rope to try to flank the drow.

The drow leader steps forward to meet Ubaar, deftly avoiding his long tail. He unclenches his fists to show long clawed hands, glowing with dark energy of a few different distinct shades. He surges at the onrushing Ubaar and strikes him in the center of his chest. For a moment the dark energy flows through them both, and then Ubaar is thrown backwards about ten feet and down (32 dmg...he needs a lot of healing VERY fast or his rage will lapse and kill him)

Rufus shows himself on the raised navigation deck. He is carrying a long, cylindrical adamantine and mitheril device that looks something like the kind of machine gun that uses multiple rotating barrels. Where those barrels would be, however, are wands, and the wand that is top and center (tipped with several spherical-cut rubies) juts out a little further than the rest. The back of the device features a rifle stock, a trigger, and some sort of crank-wheel device, and a telescope is attached to the top.

Rufus speaks "You came for me and my machine. Now face us, Kraken!" He squeezes the trigger and the wand blasts tiny fireballs at each individual drow (firebrand spell) in rapid succession as Rufus lets out his mad dwarf cackle. The snipers and the mage are each blasted and thrown down. The drow leader and his fighters are hit but survive.

Rufus turns the wheel, moving into the top-center spot a wand tipped with a miniaturized and glassteeled tentacled-looking structure that tends to result from lightning striking sand.

The drow turn to flee the ship, but Alex stabs on fighter through the neck and the other through the chest, killing them both. The leader manages to plunge into the sea and disappear.

Now what?

 

[reapersaurus]

OOC: I'm sorry, Matt - but that was the worst 'fight' I've ever witnessed on these boards. I could count up the problems I have with the combat, but really - what's the point? You still haven't posted the (to me potentially-) abusive custom Duelist class you agreed to, while you simultaneously nerfed my character by going against the rules and not having Rage stack with Barbarian rage. The clincher is this last round. I asked for advice and feedback based on what the scene is layed out like (since you don't think a map is needed on a combat this intricate), and then your pal Elric somehow takes a fullround action to free Ubaar (don't see that in the rules) and have him waltz up to death. How did the leader get his attack off without Ubaar hitting him at least? Don't tell me that readied action was for Ubaar to charge into him while he had a net covering him. And could you tell me, please, what the previous 30 damage was from? I'm sure it's there, if you say it is, but damned if I can find it. To conclude, if this is the way combat is going to be (with NPC's saving the day, and our stated actions basically being warped), then I'm afraid I'll have to bow out of the game. Too bad, too - I always like playing Ubaar, but the centering on your NPC's (and former PC's) strikes me as a tell-tale sign of danger.

 

[DM_Matt]

OOC: I'm sorry, Matt - but that was the worst 'fight' I've ever witnessed on these boards. I could count up the problems I have with the combat, but really - what's the point? You still haven't posted the (to me potentially-) abusive custom Duelist class you agreed to, while you simultaneously nerfed my character by going against the rules and not having Rage stack with Barbarian rage. The clincher is this last round. I asked for advice and feedback based on what the scene is layed out like (since you don't think a map is needed on a combat this intricate), and then your pal Elric somehow takes a fullround action to free Ubaar (don't see that in the rules) and have him waltz up to death. How did the leader get his attack off without Ubaar hitting him at least? Don't tell me that readied action was for Ubaar to charge into him while he had a net covering him. And could you tell me, please, what the previous 30 damage was from? I'm sure it's there, if you say it is, but damned if I can find it. To conclude, if this is the way combat is going to be (with NPC's saving the day, and our stated actions basically being warped), then I'm afraid I'll have to bow out of the game. Too bad, too - I always like playing Ubaar, but the centering on your NPC's (and former PC's) strikes me as a tell-tale sign of danger.

Wow. Calm down.

First of all, re: the NPC saving the day, I stated earlier that Rufus went down to get some special weapon at the very beginning. You should have expected him to return with something cool eventually if you survived long enough. Besides, all he did with it was cast something that Calain had memorized by never cast.

As far as Elric freeing you, the SRD states that a net takes a str or escape artist check and a full round action to get out of, but it also says that it has 5hp. He said that he cut the net off of you, which i interpreted to me that he would cut the net. He did mre than 5 dmg, so the net was destroyed.

The leader had a readied action to attack when Ubaar moved to threaten him. And he did. Ubaar could have gotten his attacks off and it would not have made a difference. The leader would still have survived.

I can't find my copy of the revised duelist. I told Elric to post his. It is definitely not abusive, though. It just makes him something other than useless relative to the kind of dmg that you, Akharos, and Elone can dish. Yes, I nerfed your character, who nonetheless is exceptionally powerful both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the party.

I believe that the 30 was the round that Ubaar slaughtered one of the drow boarding teams.

As far as former PCs, while Rana was used to rescue PCs in one of the many separate meeting scenarios, I don't see a problem there. As for Hermod, why not use a former PC's rich background to make a great NPC? Its not like he's been doing anything mechanically.

Generally, I don't have NPCs just come in and save the day. That would be a bad thing. This was different. You knew that he was going to fetch some kind of secret weapon, and you know that thats what the Kraken were there to get. So he got there, and he used it. If you are patient, you might find out that it has some significance. I don't see anything wrong with that.

 

[Elric]

<Alex raises his hands and casts Mass Heal>

Just kidding .

Alex swings over and bandages the wounds of whoever appears to need it the most, while shouting for Alcar to heal Ubaar.

 

[dead_radish]

Elone mentally broadcasts that she's a cleric, and healing her could be beneficial to the party.