D&D 5E Surprisingly Lethal Side Effect of Multiattack

[Oofta]

Just a quick side note, but I do frequently roll all my attacks at once to save time.

I have a system so that I know which attack hits first: I always use them in the same order. So my blue die are first, my green die second and so on.

It really helps to roll multiple dice when you have a creature with 7 attacks like a Marilith. When they have advantage.

Fortunately I have two blue, two green ... and so on. Come to think of it, I probably just have too many dice.

 

[Satyrn]

Just a quick side note, but I do frequently roll all my attacks at once to save time.

I have a system so that I know which attack hits first: I always use them in the same order. So my blue die are first, my green die second and so on.

It really helps to roll multiple dice when you have a creature with 7 attacks like a Marilith. When they have advantage.

Fortunately I have two blue, two green ... and so on. Come to think of it, I probably just have too many dice.

I laughed, but also want to give XP.

 

[Oofta]

I laughed, but also want to give XP.

Aww

Good thing there's pound'o'dice. Now I just need a bigger dice bag.

 

[Motorskills]

Come to think of it, I probably just have too many dice.

Heresy!


Actually I do the same thing, even with re-rolls, "Blue is my main die, red replaces blue if a re-roll is triggered".

 

[ccooke]

I tend to try to work out what the monsters would do.

Most creatures will switch targets if someone goes down, because they feel threatened by them. There are two cases where I would have the monsters actually attack damaged enemies:

1) Anything motivated by hunger that doesn't know about or isn't threatened by the party. Because the players reacting to something trying to eat one of them is a nice motivation.

2) Intelligent, tactically trained or lead enemies who have seen the party using in-combat healing to bring someone back up. In that case, I'll happily have them make one extra attack to a downed PC. I telegraph this clearly the first few times a party sees it, though - one of them shouting something like "They've got a healer - if they go down, make sure they stay down". The party learns to expect it after a while.

The death save system is something I'm very glad was imported from 4e - unlike the 3e system of -10 and you're dead, it means I as the GM feel that it's perfectly reasonable for me to damage a downed PC if the situation calls for it.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

If you're going to do it do it properly.

If the first attack drops a PC, then all remaining attacks are made with advantage (thanks to the PC being prone and incapacitated). Meaning you cant roll all the attacks at once.

Yes you can. You just reroll all the misses that happen after the one that drops the PC.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

I laughed, but also want to give XP.

Laughing counts as XP as far as Enworld is concerned.

 

[Flamestrike]

Yes you can. You just reroll all the misses that happen after the one that drops the PC.

That doesn't work.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

That doesn't work.

And yet, somehow I and my players are able to use this procedure successfully. Amazing!

 

[Oofta]

Yes you can. You just reroll all the misses that happen after the one that drops the PC.

That doesn't work.

I just have to ask ... do the monsters eat your die? Is there a baleful curse that befalls the one that rerolls?

Or, just do like I do and use the die rolls I would have used to attack Bob to instead act Sue.