Thats not how legendary actions work. Teleporting takes 2 of the 3 uses the Sphinx has each turn, but they are not dependent on the number of creatures involved. The Sphinx can teleport just fine with only one enemy left, refuting your pacing theory.
Not fully. When you have three opponents, it can take three actions, going down to two, and then to one as the opponents go away. All the actions are still available, by my reading, but it gets fewer of them, which still impacts pacing.
Thats not how legendary actions work. Teleporting takes 2 of the 3 uses the Sphinx has each turn, but they are not dependent on the number of creatures involved. The Sphinx can teleport just fine with only one enemy left
I see. In my mind I had "1 action per opponent's turn, max 3" as opposed to "3 actions, max 1 per turn".When you have three opponents, it can take three actions, going down to two, and then to one as the opponents go away. All the actions are still available, by my reading, but it gets fewer of them, which still impacts pacing.
I am not houseruling. When I GM a game, the action resolution rules are for the purpose of resolving players' actions declared for their PCs. If the sphinx wants to teleport off-screen, that is not an issue of action resolution. So I don't need rules for that: I just narrate the backstory that I want.How was that fallacy called that the ability of houseruling doesn't solve the underlying problem? As written the Sphinx can not teleport on its own, making legendary action a gameist rule.
So against a single opponent the Sphinx still can use spellcasting and teleportation. It does not slow down at all like permerton assumes (and because teleportation and spellcasting takes more than one action the Sphinx could never use them twice a turn, no matter how many enemies are around).
I suddenly want to run a campaign where some horrific thing arrives from the lower planes or from the stars, and the only chance humanity has is for someone (i.e. the PCs) to find and wake the tarrasque to fight it.
Looking at the MM table of contents, I wonder if the picture is counted as the first page. I don't think so since the big T on the first page of the Tarrasque picture appears to be the first page of the "T"'s. So, I think, from the ToC, we're missing another page of the Tarrasque description.
Augh! Someone uses a Monkey Island insult swordfighting reference, and I can't XP! Must spread around...How appropriate. You fight like a dairy farmer.