[OOC] Heroes of the Middle Reaches : Wandering Star

[helium3]

Opportunity Attacks

You get one per opponent per round now, so Ranver gets one OA against EACH of the Haflings.

 

[Sparky]

Ah, I didn't know they both passed by - that's mighty risky!

Rolls for 2nd OA: Attack, damage - 15, 8

 

[helium3]

Here's something new I learned today.

When a character knocks a creature to zero or below they can decide to knock them out rather than kill them.

ie: Charlotte could choose not to kill the hafling she backed against the door.

 

[helium3]

If Horto's attack hit, as part of Combat Challenge, the halfling should have stopped his movement. If that's the case, Varilar will just move around to flank him and use the piercing strike roll above, rather than readying.

Heh heh. This keeps coming up in my RL game. I think mayhaps they should've simplified how Combat Challenge and Combat Superiority works.

As I understand it (and assuming there hasn't been some errata) Combat Challenge allows a fighter to make an Immediate Interrupt basic attack against a marked oppoenent when that opponent shifts or makes an attack that does not include the marking fighter.

Combat Superiority allows the fighter to add his wisdom modifier to OA's and stops the movement of the creature when the OA was provoked by movement.

The hafling's shift allows Horto to make a basic attack as an immediate interrupt by virtue of being marked with Combat Challenge. The basic attack does not stop movement because it is not an OA. OA's are their own action type and there's no "one per round" limit on them like there is Immediate Interrupts.

The movement away from Horto after the attack was part of Mobile Melee Attack. This is a monster power that lets the hafling move three squares and make an attack at any point along that movement. The target of the attack is also denied OA's. Thus, Horto doesn't get any OA's against the marked hafling (or the unmarked one) and can't stop the movement.

Or at least, that's my understanding.

 

[Redclaw]

Gotcha. That makes sense to me, too. One of the drawbacks of pbp is that we don't get to see the actions unfold the same way we would in a face to face game. Now that I've got the sequence of events down, and the specifics of the attacks, all is good.

 

[nerdytenor]

Yep, sounds right.

 

[helium3]

It's good to know that I skip players about as often in PbP as I do in RL.

Sorry about that Blackrat. I think I skipped you last round as well. Not sure how that happened.

 

[Sparky]

I was looking at the initiative board and noticed that all of the PCs have their intiatives listed on the opposite side of the bad guys... all of the PCs except Charlotte...

Digger, is there something you need to tell us?

 

[The Digger]

Glad you mentioned that Sparky. And no I've nothing to say right now, just don't believe what you think is happening inside the building

But as a matter of interest why is Charlie's initiative so low at 3?

Her base is 8 before adding on a d20 (Dex mod 4 + Improved Initiative)

 

[Redclaw]

Probably because she delayed at the start of the fight.