frankthedm said:
That would be scrawny for gargantuan, huge sounds about right.
Alone in the woods? What class are you? How did you let youself get out there? It does sound like it is your time to die.
Actually, I think the DM wanted to kill me, or, well, he can be cruel, but it was an encounter meant for the whole party, not just me, so I think in the end he pulled some strings.
I managed to run like mad for 30 hasted rounds of speed, with 2 round in between every 10 to get un fatigued and hasted again. I avoided, or survived really, 4 attacks and managed to run into the heart of a city.
The city was a tent city and the occupants where not known to use, we thought they were unfriendly, so it was a risk, specailly cause I ran by one of the out posts at 17 miles an hour. If I would have fallen along the way, I am sure the bear would have eaten me, and I couldn't get off the road, cause the brush was to thick, so I would have moved slower, but the bear would ahve kept the same speed, cause he was bigger.
I knew from the last two times I tried to spend two rounds trying to get unfatigued and hasted that I could not expect to survive a third, so I ran for the heart of the city and hoped/prayed that the DM would find mercy and have the villagers take care of, or at least aid, in dealing with the bear.
It nailed me in a charge/trample, I got down to 4 HP in a G&G game and got a few cracked ribs. At this point I think the DM gave me mercy. Whether for a good job of avoiding the bear for so long, thoughful solution to trying to heal and haste between haste uses, living for so long when I should have died or cause he thought I might throw a fit if my guy died, I am happy to not have died.
Although, I hope it wasn't the later and rather any of the former. While I would have been pissed had I died, I don't like to be handed everything on a silver platter. Unless the DM spills his guts, I think the world will never know
SS said:
I would drop all of the food you have. If it is an animal, with animal intelligence and that does not work. Try to do what "they" always say make a loud noise. Thunderstone, Alarm, Sound Burst, any of these may work. If not, "they" also say play dead. I'd only use this for a last resort. Do you have a Deity yet? There's no time like the present.
When I stopped the first time to get unfatigued and haste again, the bewar gave me a quizical look and I used a free action to say 'hi' but it didn't respond. I thought that he might be a druid in animal form, and it was confirmed when I ran him into the village and after many rounds of bashing the villagers, he transformed into a human druid. He is the village protector and I guess he didn't want to eat me infront of the subjects or something.
Lucky me
frankthedm said:
The jumping somersault is your 5 ranks in tumble giving the +2 synergy to jump. The rules for tumble clearly expect you to be rolling along the ground [look at the modifiers...].
Besides if you wanted to go through thier square at normal speed, The DC 25 becomes DC 35. I suppose taking the "practically impossible (-20 penalty)" modifier would be about right to Run while tumbling, but that a house rule.
The idea comes from
You can move up to one-half your normal speed and hide at no penalty. When moving at a speed greater than one-half but less than your normal speed, you take a -5 penalty. It’s practically impossible (-20 penalty) to hide while attacking, running or charging.
Running is supposed to take away your dex bonus for the whole round, letting somone tumble when they can't avoid attacks feels plain wrong.
It was only going through a threatened area, not through the actual square. So, DC 25, but I think I would have had like a 25% chance of making a DC 35 from a house rule -20 modifier, which I surely would have tried.
Oh well.
Caliban said:
If the size difference is that great, try to head for terrain that will be difficult or impassable for it, but not for you. Duck between trees, through rocks, etc. Force it to go around while you go through, or at least slow down.
Unless you did something to really make it mad, or something made it unnaturally focussed on you, once you are out of sight it should give up the chase.
I tried to lose it the first round in the woods, but the trees where small enough for it to break through them and I was being slowed down by the under brush.
It turned out to be a human in bear form, he was made cause he thought I went through his portal. That is another story though.
SS said:
I fully agree, and if this does not work I know the names quite a few Gods. Which world are you on? Oh sure there are a few deities that should be avoided. The price may be more than it's worth but, most are on the up and up.
Once, when we faced our first undead (and if you know anything about undead in G&G, you know what I mean) I tried to grasp a symbol that we got from a temple of healing to see if I could have some effect on the skeleton/zombie. I was only like 3rd level and was hoping to take a cleric path since everyone else was a fighter in a low magic world. I thought it sounded plausible that it might draw the attention of a God who might like a new follower.
I wasn't alone, one other in the group tried that too. He gave up after the first round, but I thought 'hey, if I just have faith, sopmething will happen'
Wrong.
5 rounds I tried, 5 rounds nothing.
Disappointed to find out later that there are no Gods in the world.
Mean DM
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