renau1g's Red Hand of Doom

[stonegod]

The fireball distracts everyone from the nothing thats not going on anywhere near the center of the courtyard.[sblock=DM]Smiling to himself, Sascha carefully make some gestures. Doing his best to make it so only the hobs see the illusion, one of their 'comrades' stumbles across the entrance of the courtyard, manticore spikes and blood clearly visible before it stumbles out of sight.

That should do it. Let them do my work for me.

OOC: Silently cast silent image as a full round action of the hob. Remain invisible. 5' step out of the entrance to make it clear.[/sblock][sblock=Sohen (invisible, mirror images)]Conditions: 6 mirror images 57r
AC 19, touch 13, flat-footed 16; +6 armor, +3 Dex; Combat Expertise
hp 34 (6 HD)
Fort +3, Ref +5, Will +5; +2 vs. sleep and charm

Spells Per Day (Save DC 14 + spell level, +1 if flat footed):
3rd: 3/4
2nd: 3/6
1st: 6/7
0: 6/6[/sblock]

 

[Rhun]

Stonegod, your posts make me chuckle!

 

[stonegod]

Stonegod, your posts make me chuckle!

OOC: I live to serve. Thanks!

 

[renau1g]

Zazz smiles to himself as the minotaur, now increase greatly in size, unwittingly singles himself out as the elf's next victim. The minotaur's larger size would only cause a larger fireball. His shortsword again starts to glow with a strange inner fire as Zazz leaps from cover and rushes across the field.

The elven warrior reaches the minotaur, and plunges his blade into the brute. The area is enveloped in another fiery blast as the sword strikes its target. The spread of the blast is truly huge...Zazz' fireball is larger than ever before. Unfortunately, the blast also catches his ally Virashil in the blast, forcing her to try and dodge the flames.

It incinirates the hobgoblin left out in the open, but the bugbear and minotaur manage to avoid some of the blast. The hobgoblin in the keep is somewhat protected by the stonework, now stained black from the scorching explosions.

[sblock=Sohen]
Only 1 hobbo remains, him being burned by the blast from Zazz, but his beady eyes turn red as he sees the illusion stumble out of sight.
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[sblock=OOC]
Sorry for the delay, holiday weekend here in Canada and I was without my physical books.

1 hobgoblin fails Ref save, everyone else saves (note that there were only 2 hobbos left, you don't know what happened to the other one

Virashil - Reflex save DC 17, 31 damage, 15 if you make it, note your mirror images are intact, as are the bugbears.

Initiatives:
Sir Conrad - 22
Manticore - 18
Zazz - 15
Unknown person - 15
Scavenger - 14 <- You're Up
Hobgoblins - 12
Hurrow - 8
Virashil - 8 (after delaying)
Minotaur - 7
Bugbear - 15
Worg-Riders - 7

Active Effects:
Virashil:
Mage Armor - 1+ hrs
Mirror Image - 42/50 rounds remaining

Hurrow:
Decomposition - 5/6 rounds remaining

Zazz - 42/46
Sir Conrad - 47/73
Hurrow: 22/50 (I rolled for you, made itRef (1d20+2=17) )

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[Rhun]

[sblock=For Renau1g]
Nope, it doesn't go off on a miss. Did a 19 really miss? Is the minotaur armored or something? Because (and not to metagame, but I'm way too familiar with minotaurs), and an Enlarged Minotaur only has an AC of 12. (14 standard, -1 for size increase, and -1 for getting a -2 to dex from the enlarge).

He'd have to have full plate amor on for a 19 to miss!
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[renau1g]

[sblock=Rhun]
Thanks for the reminder about the penalty to Dex (I always thought that rule was silly, penalized for being larger, then penalized again... but that's just me). I am not actually using the base stats per the MM, he's actually got the stats of another monster because you're a higher level group (and have 6 PC's vs. the standard 4) so I had to increase the CR to make it a somewhat difficult fight. However, the strike does hit. Not that the PC's know it, but the bugbear and the mino were spending the 5 rounds that the sleet storm were in effect to get buffed for this battle.
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[stonegod]

[sblock=On Mirror Image]You folks run MI a little differently than I: I always assumed that area attacks make the images looked harmed (so they mirror what you look like) but don't poof since they were not attacked (Only a "successful attack" destroys an image; being hits w/ an AoO just makes them "react normally"). Is that the canonical interpretation here?[/sblock]

 

[renau1g]

[sblock=on MI]
You appear to be correct stonegod, to destroy a Mirror image, an attack roll is required. Magic Missle would work, but area effects don't work. I'll update accordingly.
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[Rhun]

[sblock=Stonegod/Renau1g]
Good catch, Stonegod. For some reason, I had never read that line quite right. Thanks for pointing that out!
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[s@squ@tch]

Virashil hp: 13/28 AC: 17/17/14

Virashil's draconic senses tell her to duck behind a low rock just in time to avoid the full force of the fireball.

"Holy shiat!" mutters the silver elf.

[sblock=OOC]

Reflex save vs. fireball (1d20+4=19)

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