OOC: Tholestia: also XP and GP tracking etc.

[takew]

Thanks for the AC...

I'll also assume - just this once - that the Bugbear was his Dodge target.

When you where back home in Hoorn, we agreed that if I had one opponent, it would automatically be my dodge opponent. Isn't that so? But next time i'll tell you who I'll dodge..

Oh, why could you post to the OOC thread but not to the main thread take?

 

[Ravellion]

takew: What I meant by the one opponent was when there actually was only one opponent Ie. the entire group fighting one dragon.

Ilan: Combat is an abstraction - I don't see how you would first move your horse 25 feet and then fire three arrows - the reasons feats such as Mounted Archery exist is because the horse and rider act simultaneously.

Because of this, I would still grant you three shots, but, not all of them would be made at the end of the horses move. One would be made from the starting position, one from the middle position, and one from the end position.

This is not open to discussion. You can of course choose to forgoe the shooting from the first position and only shoot the second and third opportunity. Or you could play it really safe and only shoot once (as the cover of the Orc is quite substantial - he is standing behind a size Large creature). It is up to you. I just think it is fair that I warn you how I am going to handle it first.

I also hope that you see I don't just do this to screw you over, I do this because I just can't make a mental picture of what you were proposing. Normally what you propoesed doesn't create any problems, but now with the cover and the rain etc. it makes a difference, that's why it hasn't come up yet.

If you post here saying that you are sticking with your initial action, that is fine. If not, could you edit your post?

 

[Ravellion]

(on posting Sullaf/Tristan)

It was posted under sullaf's ID, not yours, but in the OOC thread it was your ID.Not that it matters, just curious.

 

[Ilan]

see your point, but I thought those were the rules. why can a fighter attack his opponent twice while riding and can I attack onlyonce from one position. But oh well

 

[Ravellion]

see your point, but I thought those were the rules. why can a fighter attack his opponent twice while riding and can I attack onlyonce from one position. But oh well

Well actually a fighter can't really do that too - archer's can always (always!) make a full attack from horseback, because the horses movement is seperate from the rider.

A Ride By Attack is only one (one!) attack - using the Mounted Archery feat in conjuction with a ful move of your horse allows you to let your horse make a run (4x movement) and still allow you to get a full attack (actually, you can do that without the feat too, you'll just get lots of penalties to your attack rolls). On the plains, a mounted archer rocks. In the forest however, he shouldn't.

That is besides the point however, since a cavalier with lance could make his charge (with hefty damage bonusses), but that does not allow his horse to attack yet - it has alreay moved. It is only when a warhorse is in melee that the warhorse and the rider together can make a lot of attacks.

Perhaps I have allowed previously (when my rules knowledge was not as it is now) for a rider to let his horse make a move and a full attack, I can't remember, but I assure you I would not do so again. The suggestion given for mounted combat is either that you give the mount an initiative and let the owner of the mount perform the actions of the mount at it's own initiative (usually involving a delay action), or simultaneously - which is what I prefer, since that is most "realistic".

And again, I am not taking away your ability to make full attack actions, au contraire, I am simply not granting you the ability to shoot through solid matter

So I take it you are making one attack after moving 25 feet ahead?

Rav

 

[Ilan]

edited my post, attacked the hobgoblin

 

[Ravellion]

The update has been made, Deepwinter is next.

 

[Ilan]

and you don't think I'm a hero, gnarl gnarl

 

[Deepwinter 7]

Hope my actions are permisable... if not let me know

 

[Ravellion]

and you don't think I'm a hero, gnarl gnarl

Being good at something does not equate being heroic, thy vile villian !

Deepwinter: How many PP have you got left? It is abit harder for me to track than the spell casters's repertoire.