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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JollyDoc" data-source="post: 1074513" data-attributes="member: 9546"><p>Bear in mind that what I post in the SH are the salient points of the combat only.  Rest assured there were many, "Gardrid swings; misses; Hammerer swings; misses."  To post all of this would make for a very tedious and boring tale.  GFunk was right, in the beginning, they were doing well on their reliability checks (BTW, each round, a Hammer Automaton must make a reliability check of 11 or greater on d20 to take an action for that round), but later, they failed about half of them, the only thing that saved Gardrid and Tilly.  As GFunk mentioned, they also dealt 2d8+10 per attack, AND, as a mercy, I didn't allow them to use their pincer attack, with which they could grapple an opponent, and then beat them to death with the hammer while they were pinned.  The adventure makes a note that these particular automatons had previoulsy been "injured" by a rust monster attack, so their CR was 4 instead of 5.  Lucky for the group, eh?</p></blockquote><p></p>