Rat Swarm Ongoing Damage vs. Fey Step
- Thread starter borkweb
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Generally, I assume untyped ongoing damage to be caused by bleeding.
CapnZapp
Legend
I would not allow a teleportation power to auto-escape ongoing damage, but there is a related issue worth discussing:
Fey Step and other teleports obviously allows you to auto-escape a grab, but how about when you're restrained or immobilized?
As I understand it, looking at which defense the restraining attack targets can give you a clue on whether physical relocation will shed the condition too:
Fortitude or Reflex - generally a physical attack that can be auto-escaped
Will - generally a mental seizure that will persist no matter how far away you teleport (until you save of course)
Note the "generally". I see no hard rules on this, so it should always be up to the DM to interpret what little fluff exists around a given power.
What's your take on this? Do you use anything like the above? Or how do you run things like this?
Fey Step and other teleports obviously allows you to auto-escape a grab, but how about when you're restrained or immobilized?
As I understand it, looking at which defense the restraining attack targets can give you a clue on whether physical relocation will shed the condition too:
Fortitude or Reflex - generally a physical attack that can be auto-escaped
Will - generally a mental seizure that will persist no matter how far away you teleport (until you save of course)
Note the "generally". I see no hard rules on this, so it should always be up to the DM to interpret what little fluff exists around a given power.
What's your take on this? Do you use anything like the above? Or how do you run things like this?
lukelightning
First Post
And some get shaken off mid-teleport. Somewhere in the Feywild a gnome family is sitting down to eat, and some Eladrin pops in momentarily, standing on their table, then vanishes, leaving behind a dozen rats...
"Hooray, dessert!"
I loled.
And you can introduce the gnome family as grateful worhsippers of the God that Brings Rats, every time he Fey Steps from now on he emerges with a necklace of flowers.
I think for me, I would not allow it just as is. If the player wanted to take an action. or make a roll, that is fine, convince me. I like creativity in my gaming. But just allowing it to happen, and all the time, makes no sense to me.
As for what causes the ongoing damage? It is up to you. Off the top of my head:
- Magical anticoagulant in the rat saliva (ie, poison, disease)
- That oogie feeling you would get from being swarmed by rats
- Fiendish Dire fleas they leave behind
Remembering that HP's aren't a 1:1 with physical damage, sometimes they represent loss of will to go on or resist.
Jay
Jay
