stonegod's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: Ch. I [OOC]

[stonegod]

Just fyi... Spiritual Weapon damages like a spell, not a weapon, so despite it being represented by a "piercing weapon", damage reduction has no effect.

You know, I knew that, but when re-reading the spell at a glance, got too caught up on the constant swtiching between "weapon-like" and "non-weapon-like" in the text.

Fixed.

 

[GwydapLlew]

Damn, vargouilles, super-tough zombies, and giant evil maggots. I'm starting to get worried about survival.

 

[stonegod]

Damn, vargouilles, super-tough zombies, and giant evil maggots. I'm starting to get worried about survival.

It not easy by any means, but you have survived so far. At least you folks didn't start a level lower than stated in the module (as others have done).

I have plans in case some of your characters become the non-living. We can discuss those later.

 

[stonegod]

Using smite evil + silver smite. Here's to hoping the maggot-creatures are evil. If I kill it, then I'm going to cleave into the other maggot.

I'm assuming my mount will follow basic instructions. If not - if I need to spend an action commanding it or somesuch - I'll edit it out.

We'll find out about the maggots. They are attacking Selase, btw. The army of Janii are "safe" in the back.

Your mount is smart enough to follow simple verbal commands.

 

[drothgery]

Just a tactical note for the guys with Sneak Attack -- thwacking a bad guy right after Deallin shoots them is a Good Idea; he's got Distracting Attack rather than an animal companion, so for the first attack after our elvish archer hits a bad guy, they're effectively flanked.

 

[GwydapLlew]

Just a tactical note for the guys with Sneak Attack -- thwacking a bad guy right after Deallin shoots them is a Good Idea; he's got Distracting Attack rather than an animal companion, so for the first attack after our elvish archer hits a bad guy, they're effectively flanked.

Oooooooooh...good to know! *rubs hands evilly*

Oh wait, undead. *tearful*

 

[drothgery]

Oooooooooh...good to know! *rubs hands evilly*

Oh wait, undead. *tearful*

What, you don't have a wand of grave strike?

 

[GwydapLlew]

What, you don't have a wand of grave strike?

Nope! That's why I have the Stalker with me.

 

[DEFCON 1]

I have Grave Strike prayed for as a spell, but didn't bother getting a wand. Simply because casting Grave Strike normally is a Swift Action (and thus I can still attack twice with my rapiers and get sneak attack bonuses on both). Using a wand (which is a Spell Trigger item) means that it takes a Standard action to cast, and thus I can't attack until the next round. Plus, wielding the wand to cast it gives me one less hand that can hold a rapier and thus my second attack with sneak attack damage is gone. Using a wand for Grave Strike is just not that useful unfortunately. Believe me... I crunched a whole bunch of numbers about that spell when I created the character.

But it's good to know about Distracting Attack for any future non-undead opponents. So feel free to shoot as many arrows against my opponents as you'd like, drothgery. I'll take the flanking opportunities as often as I can get them. LOL.

 

[drothgery]

Using a wand (which is a Spell Trigger item) means that it takes a Standard action to cast, and thus I can't attack until the next round.

I think I usually house-rule that using a spell trigger item to cast a spell takes the same time as casting the spell.