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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 723787" data-attributes="member: 424">A more recent example of 'intuitive' thinking.Our party recently completed The Banewarrens.  Two incidents stand out, both involving the Barbarian character.Incident 1:  Party had some difficulty with a sorceror Lamia which was located at the bottom of a 50 ft pit.  The barbarian's solution was....well.....shall I say unorthodox.Solution:  Tie 10 feet pole to hilt of his greatsword.  Then jump into pit and while in free fall,  place his feet on the crossguard of the greatsword and hold the pole, greatsword point down.    You got it.  'Death from above' with a improvised pogostick.  DM creatively figured a way to calculate damage (counted as a charge attack with a 'spear-like' weapon (double damage) and another doubling for a nearly 300lb barbarian's falling weight for triple damage).  Killed the Lamia with the attack.....Incident 2:  Barbarian (yep...same guy) find himself trapped in small room which seems to be moving.  Barbarian knocks hole in wall and climbs out to find himself in front of the moving room he escapes from....and the room is still moving.  15 ft in front of him is a large hole (100 ft deep) and a wide passage heading to the right almost to his immediate right.Now, intuition would say - duck down the passage to the right.  Solution:  Barbarian climbs into hole and hangs by his fingers from the edge.......only to have the sliding room crush his fingers, causing him to fall 100 ft for 10d6 damage..... then have the sliding room fall into the pit on top of him for an additional 15d6 damage.   Incredibly, the barbarian survives this.  When asked why he just didn't go down the side passage, he said that it was 'too obvious' and he figured the room would follow him down the passage and the smart move was to do what he did.  Or so was his reasoning.  D'oh.     <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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