Mal Malenkirk
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Lots of feedback.
It's hapenning because he got grappled by a mechanical arm and shoved in an assembly machine. And because he failed all his escape artist check.
It could have hapenned to someone else. It could have happened to no one. The PCs could have found the switch before it was too late.
*shrug*
Why do you ask? Why does bad thing happens to PCs in your campaign?
And yeah, looking at Dragonstar is a good idea.
This machine was designed to size up the subject and outfit him in an appropriate fashion. Weirder things than a dwarf have been fully mechanized by this machine.
1 minute would do the trick, I'll tone it down.
This was intended to be a balancing factor allowing me to give a little more power to the rest of the package.
In order;
Claw attack is a cool idea, altough the PC already have improved unarmed fighting so the benefit are not as great as you'd think.
Mend would do the trick most of the time. Mind you I wouldn't declare that the limbs have been damaged in most normal combat circumstances.
The bonus to jump is supernatural. That's why I don't want it to stack with the Jump spell. Leap of the cloud is an excellent idea.
Tough luck but as far as I'm concerned mechanical limb improve STR, not DEX. He'll have to find another item to improve dexterity (doesn't have to be gauntlets). Beside, that rogue had STR 10 so it's a welcome improvement. It also helps several athletic abilities such as jump and climb, which is useful for a rogue.
They are part magical, part mechanical. Relying solely on mechanical properties they don't work so well. Magic is required to make them perform at peak efficiency.
The ability to cut subdual damage by half is an abstraction of that character's greater capacity to withstand pain.
I am the DM. And this adventure was inspired from that particular adventure.
I swaped the halfiend necromancer for a mad gnome scientist. I modified the templates and the opposition. I used a a grouchy ermit that hapenned to be a 4th level fire giant monk instead of the ten headed fire hydra.
And I have overall increased the challenge of this adventure that was designed for four 9 level PCs to match a party of seven level 11 PCs.
DM prerogative and all that. I'm sure you can understand.
Sometime life is hard. Sometime a PC get killed. Sometime a PC lose all his limbs.
In only a few levels the party's cleric will be able to cast Regenerate so at worst the Dwarf will regain his natural limbs in 4 level if he can't manage it on his own before then.
Meanwhile, at this time and place in the campaign, there are no 15th level cleric available.
And I want to have fun, so there.
Alejandro said:
It's hapenning because he got grappled by a mechanical arm and shoved in an assembly machine. And because he failed all his escape artist check.
It could have hapenned to someone else. It could have happened to no one. The PCs could have found the switch before it was too late.
*shrug*
Why do you ask? Why does bad thing happens to PCs in your campaign?
And yeah, looking at Dragonstar is a good idea.
This machine was designed to size up the subject and outfit him in an appropriate fashion. Weirder things than a dwarf have been fully mechanized by this machine.
1 minute would do the trick, I'll tone it down.
This was intended to be a balancing factor allowing me to give a little more power to the rest of the package.
In order;
Claw attack is a cool idea, altough the PC already have improved unarmed fighting so the benefit are not as great as you'd think.
Mend would do the trick most of the time. Mind you I wouldn't declare that the limbs have been damaged in most normal combat circumstances.
The bonus to jump is supernatural. That's why I don't want it to stack with the Jump spell. Leap of the cloud is an excellent idea.
Tough luck but as far as I'm concerned mechanical limb improve STR, not DEX. He'll have to find another item to improve dexterity (doesn't have to be gauntlets). Beside, that rogue had STR 10 so it's a welcome improvement. It also helps several athletic abilities such as jump and climb, which is useful for a rogue.
They are part magical, part mechanical. Relying solely on mechanical properties they don't work so well. Magic is required to make them perform at peak efficiency.
The ability to cut subdual damage by half is an abstraction of that character's greater capacity to withstand pain.
I am the DM. And this adventure was inspired from that particular adventure.
I swaped the halfiend necromancer for a mad gnome scientist. I modified the templates and the opposition. I used a a grouchy ermit that hapenned to be a 4th level fire giant monk instead of the ten headed fire hydra.
And I have overall increased the challenge of this adventure that was designed for four 9 level PCs to match a party of seven level 11 PCs.
DM prerogative and all that. I'm sure you can understand.
Sometime life is hard. Sometime a PC get killed. Sometime a PC lose all his limbs.
In only a few levels the party's cleric will be able to cast Regenerate so at worst the Dwarf will regain his natural limbs in 4 level if he can't manage it on his own before then.
Meanwhile, at this time and place in the campaign, there are no 15th level cleric available.
And I want to have fun, so there.
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