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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 5025087" data-attributes="member: 13966">Liiros snarls in rage as the rider somehow ducks his sword to hide behind the other side of his horse, screwing up Liiros' technique and making him lose balance for just a second, ending the ground-contact he needed to draw on the strength of stone.  The elf spits and grits his teeth, this time hacking deftly into the horse's left shoulder, only narrowly missing its throat, determined to stop the accursed archer from using the horse for any further advantage.  As he strikes, Liiros tries to channel a bit of Corellon's vitality into Torrent and Korrin."Get down here and fight like a man, Renard!  Weasely human scum!  Stop hiding behind the poor beast and forcing me to slay it first!  COWARD!" the elf spits out between clenched teeth, seething and upset that he must slay the poor horse just to get to its villainous and cowardly rider.[sblock=OOC & WTF]F***ING 3.5.  F***ING 3.5 and its dumbass designers who rewrote the rules rather than just editing the original 3.0 text to make their changes.  Just like they forgot to keep the line in the DMG about prestige classes not counting towards multiclass penalties, they forgot to include the whole freaking PARAGRAPH in the 3.0 PHB that described striking the cover instead of the original target when missing by a small margin from the cover bonus alone.   I'm sorry, TWO F***ING PARAGRAPHS in the 3.0 PHB devoted to that very subject because it's a common sense rule that deserves addressing in the core rules.  One of many that the dumbasses behind the 3.5 revision had inconceivably forgotten.  Oh how I LOATHE 3.5 and its idiotic design.  Hard to believe that a few people involved in it had actually been somewhat involved in 3.0 too.  Only some supplemental material in 3.0 had such shoddy writing and editing as the 3.5 core rules.Sorry.  I just really freaking hate 3.5's shoddy design.  It's like none of them had ever played D&D before and had no effing clue what the hell they were doing.  Doesn't help that the using-mount-as-cover rule in 3.5 doesn't give any indication of how long it lasts or how the rider returns to an upright position (stupid free +4 AC for absolutely nothing).Liiros' granted maneuvers reset to #2, 5, and 3.  Crusader's Strike, Vanguard Strike, and Leading the Attack.  Effing thing couldn't bother to give me Stone Bones again after that effing mounted cover snafu, so Liiros is obviously going to suffer a mounted charge (Spirited Charge, I would bet) THIS round and get eviscerated.  It's the only logical conclusion. -_-<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2343114/" target="_blank">6d5=17</a> Liiros takes a 5-foot step forward and initiates a Crusader's Strike targeting Renard's effing horse, damnit.  Not that Renard won't likely use an effing Ride check to negate the hit with the Mounted Combat feat, given my luck.  That beast is going down before it screws up any more of Liiros' tactics, much as he hates to harm animals.<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2343123/" target="_blank">1d20+5=23, 1d8+2=10, 1d6+2=4</a> Got a 23 to hit the damn horse, for 10 damage; shoulda targeted the rider apparently, but oh well.  Die, you stupid invulnerable-cover horse!  Die and interfere NO MORE!  If Liiros hits, he heals Torrent with the Crusader's Strike for 4 HP, and heals Korrin for 2 HP from Martial Spirit.The rules aren't clear about fighting defensively and Strike maneuvers, so it seems they probably aren't compatible and I won't bother trying both.Liiros Tivaniel, High Elf Crusader of Corellon Larethian 2HP 16/18, AC 19, touch 11, flat-footed 18Active Stance: Martial SpiritGranted Maneuvers: *Crusader's Strike, Leading the Attack, Vanguard Strike* Expended nowReadied Maneuvers: Charging Minotaur, Crusader's Strike, Leading the Attack, Stone Bones, Vanguard StrikeKnown Stances: Iron Guard's Glare, Martial Spirit[/sblock]</blockquote>

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