Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 4811352" data-attributes="member: 198">Hah! I saw the thread title and thought, &quot;Wait - did someone else do that?&quot;Yup, I'm the player in question.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Nice try, but no. When I had my PC try to grapple the allip, as a player I could have recited the allip's abilities without looking at the MM. So it had nothing to do with my player knowledge (or lack thereof). It was a combination of other factors, instead. The character I was playing was a really dumb orc barbarian, whose approach to every battle was to hit things as hard as he could. Due to his background and how he met them (they rescued him from captivity), he also had a feeling of great loyalty to the party and felt impelled to try and protect them from harm. So when they met the allip, he raged, charged and swung at it and missed. And then missed again. The allip, meanwhile, had wounded one of his allies and hit him too, which took his Wis to 4. So I figured it made sense for him to freak out and just throw himself at the allip. It was in character, it was amusing, and it gave the other PCs a chance to get away. So did my PC too, by the way, but he was at 2 Wis when he did <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> In short, it was a mix of what I could justify my PC doing and what was enjoyable as a player and beneficial for the group. Win, win!Anyway, that was my motivation at that time, but I could find a few other plausible justifications for it, so it's not the only possible one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 4811352, member: 198"] Hah! I saw the thread title and thought, "Wait - did someone else do that?" Yup, I'm the player in question. :D Nice try, but no. When I had my PC try to grapple the allip, as a player I could have recited the allip's abilities without looking at the MM. So it had nothing to do with my player knowledge (or lack thereof). It was a combination of other factors, instead. The character I was playing was a really dumb orc barbarian, whose approach to every battle was to hit things as hard as he could. Due to his background and how he met them (they rescued him from captivity), he also had a feeling of great loyalty to the party and felt impelled to try and protect them from harm. So when they met the allip, he raged, charged and swung at it and missed. And then missed again. The allip, meanwhile, had wounded one of his allies and hit him too, which took his Wis to 4. So I figured it made sense for him to freak out and just throw himself at the allip. It was in character, it was amusing, and it gave the other PCs a chance to get away. So did my PC too, by the way, but he was at 2 Wis when he did :D In short, it was a mix of what I could justify my PC doing and what was enjoyable as a player and beneficial for the group. Win, win! Anyway, that was my motivation at that time, but I could find a few other plausible justifications for it, so it's not the only possible one. [/QUOTE]

Verification