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<blockquote data-quote="WolverineJon" data-source="post: 2786931" data-attributes="member: 1174">Here's a thought on the original problem that I just had (though I'm not sure if this is at all viable from a RAW perspective!) :Give each of the 100 warriors a tower shield.&nbsp; Have each warrior advance only with their move action (in the manner that glass suggested all the way back in post #6 in this thread), but with their standard action, ready an action to fall prone with their tower shield positioned over themselves when the incoming fireball happens.&nbsp; (Assume the tower shields are oval and slightly concave in shape -- picture a turtle-shell-like shape -- so that the edges of the shield can be flush with the ground while also allowing the warrior to fit beneath it, to prevent the spread of the fireball from having any gaps to fit through.)A couple of potential problems with this:- Could a tower shield really be this shape?&nbsp; (I don't see anything that necessarily contradicts this in the SRD description of the tower shield.)- Can each warrior both drop prone *and* get their tower shield into the proper position in the single readied action?&nbsp; (Maybe the warriors could be carrying their shields overhead in the proper position to begin with so that when they go prone, the shield just ends up in the correct position?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WolverineJon, post: 2786931, member: 1174"] Here's a thought on the original problem that I just had (though I'm not sure if this is at all viable from a RAW perspective!) : Give each of the 100 warriors a tower shield. Have each warrior advance only with their move action (in the manner that glass suggested all the way back in post #6 in this thread), but with their standard action, ready an action to fall prone with their tower shield positioned over themselves when the incoming fireball happens. (Assume the tower shields are oval and slightly concave in shape -- picture a turtle-shell-like shape -- so that the edges of the shield can be flush with the ground while also allowing the warrior to fit beneath it, to prevent the spread of the fireball from having any gaps to fit through.) A couple of potential problems with this: - Could a tower shield really be this shape? (I don't see anything that necessarily contradicts this in the SRD description of the tower shield.) - Can each warrior both drop prone *and* get their tower shield into the proper position in the single readied action? (Maybe the warriors could be carrying their shields overhead in the proper position to begin with so that when they go prone, the shield just ends up in the correct position?) [/QUOTE]

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