OoTS 655
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Andor
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So do you think he is using the Paizo critical deck, Torn Asunder, or house ruled in crit charts?
Nah. NPC on NPC combat operates on DM fiat. It happened because it was cool.
malraux
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Nah. NPC on NPC combat operates on DM fiat. It happened because it was cool.
Grabbing a holy symbol isn't even a house rule. Its core. O'Chul had a +12 on his attack roll (+4 for two handed weapon, +4 for size category, +4 for the item being unsecured). Its an opposed attack roll, so even if RedCloak were a much higher level, he has a lower BAB and probably not as good a STR score. Honestly, disarming clerics via their holy symbol was a surprisingly easy mechanic to break in 3e.
edit: err +8 on the disarm, I forgot that improvised weapons give a -4 to attacks.
edit2: err, unless you mean the eyestab, in which case just append "I am a moron" to all my posts.
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Baron Opal
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I think V is going to forcibly join team evil and O-Chuul will make it out of the Cloister where he will meet up with the rest of the team. Xykon might feel O-Chuul bashing the phylactery and erase him right after it gets broken, however.
StreamOfTheSky
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Fighter/Paladins with extremely good Con tend to make fort saves. So basically, he didn't roll a 1. Poor choice of spell by Redcloak.
I hope he just smashs that phylactery the first panel next strip, in as anti-climactic a way as possible. If Xykon somehow not only ends up surviving this turn of events that really can only be described as catastrophic -- a lich LOSING his phylactery to the good guys? That's the stuff eternal nightmares are made out of! -- I call yet more proof that's he's a Mary Sue.
And it's not like O was getting a handy little plot waiver from the author to know to go for it, either. He was in the room when the deathless Paladin lord declared the holy symbol to be the phylactery. It's just yet another nice little touch that I hadn't even remembered or thought important till now.
Baron Opal
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If it got broken would Xykon kill Redcloak as a penalty for his carelessness?
Plane Sailing
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Fighter/Paladins with extremely good Con tend to make fort saves. So basically, he didn't roll a 1. Poor choice of spell by Redcloak.
From 3.5 onwards it was a pretty poor choice of spell anyway. Even on a failed save it does (on average) 7 damage per level, which can't take out the average NPC fighter or paladin of equivalent level.
Gotta say, Harm would have been a much better spell for him to choose in every way there
