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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IndyPendant" data-source="post: 2453520" data-attributes="member: 8738">Okay.  Damage control. : )Shayuri and Voadam have helped me realize that I have in fact made a mistake with the dragon, although not the one I thought I had.  In my mind, you see, the dragon has been flying the entire battle.  I thought there was nothing wrong with this, but in carefully reviewing the flight rules, this is wrong.  At average maneuverability, the dragon can't move the way it has been and continue flying.  It has to land at the end of each of its turns.So what does this mean?  It actually wouldn't have changed anything at all, really--except when factoring in Terrek's trip ability.  Trip doesn't work on a flying creature, but it does work on a standing creature!  And getting up from a trip, even for a tiny creature, means an AoO from all threatening opponents.There are two potential times Calcryx could have been tripped by Terrek.  The first time was just before it stepped back and breathed on Kuma and Ydyr, and the second time was before it retreated to the ceiling.  Normally, I hate doing takebacks, and just say 'oops sorry', move on, and make a mental note not to repeat the mistake; I do this because it's usually too much effort to try to rewrite history.  That worked in your favour when Heirmund cast a colour spray he had never prepared, for example.  I never backtracked because it would have been *way* too much effort, even though you would have been in a *much* worse situation without that spell being cast.However.  You're facing a TPK.  And while I have no qualms whatsoever killing a party when going by the rules, I couldn't in all fairness let you be killed off because I misplayed rules that could have changed the combat so drastically.  It's like...cheating.So I'm doing a takeback.  The good news (well, good from *my* viewpoint anyways! : ) is that Terrek actually managed to fail at the first trip.  ((Terrek: 6+3=9.  Calcryx: 17-4=13.))  So I've decided I'm not going to revise that post, since that would only involve a minor descript change.  Which means that the only post that needs revising is the most recent one I made.  I've rolled the second trip check to see what happens, and Terrek succeeded.  I have not gone any further yet, however--I like to be surprised as much as the next guy.My next step will be, very soon, to edit the most recent post I've made to reflect the change--and then to post what the dragon does in response to Ydyr and Lehko...And sorry about losing track of this combat so badly.  I've already taken steps to see that this is not repeated.  (One of them being that spreadsheet I mentioned.)And have fun!</blockquote>

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