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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6226346" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I'd like your take on a rules issue right quick as I'm 50:50 with a slight inclination toward (a) on this and could be moved either way.  This specific issue has never come up in my home game and the rules are (as they should be with exception based design) silent here.   [MENTION=16586]Campbell[/MENTION],  [MENTION=386]LostSoul[/MENTION],  [MENTION=27570]sheadunne[/MENTION], feel free to thumbs up or down.  Swarm of Shadows (the 5 * 5 yellow square) is a zone that lasts until the end of the encounter; it does not need to be sustained by the Dryad.  However, its power source is the Dryad's patron.  With the successful Skill Challenge against the Dryad, she has been decoupled from her patron.  Would:(a) Swarm of Shadows ends instantaneous to the effect of her decoupling from her patron.(b)  Swarm of Shadows lasts until the end of the encounter regardless.If your inclination is (a), then you would not take the 5 cold damage from Swarming Shadows this round and you wouldn't be subjected to its slow (save ends) effect.  Nor would anyone else going forward, including your enemies (its creatures in zone), and I'd need to strike it from the map.Understood.  After your attack below she is at 71 HP.  FYI for everyone, she is no longer possesses Vulnerable 5 Radiant and you guys no longer take damage from her aura.I suspect we will find that out soon enough!I'm certain your rules interpretation is correct here (+ 10 for CB Vuln applying to Hammer Rhythm).  As you mention, the nonapplicable bonuses are bonuses you would typically get to Weapon keyword attacks due to PC build (feats et al).  S1 would take 13 damage.1)  For any onlookers who may be unaware of what Thurgon/pemerton is doing here, it is thematic tanky stuff;  the targets are marked (- 2 to attack anyone but Thurgon) and subjected to Kord's divine wrath (8 charisma damage in this case) through Thurgon, until the end of his next turn, if they violate the mark.On her hands and knees, barely able keep her head free from the knee-deep water, she breaths an exhausted "...your commander was murdered by my vile hands...I am beyond atonement...strike me down good sir knight..."Not in the smarmy "good sir knight" tone of the Lord Chamberlain.  Sincere and beaten this time.While she is not at 0 HP technically, effectively she is defeated for your purposes and no longer an enemy so yes, it would refresh.  I assume you're asking if Thurgon is in reach for Loyal Sanction (and not melee reach)?  Yes, he is within a Close Burst 5 of you.  I will update the battle map soon.  I'd like to get you guys' take on Swarm of Shadows first.   [MENTION=27570]sheadunne[/MENTION], if I don't hear back from you before I update the map, I'm going to place you in I3 as you stated that you wanted to "challenge the Quicklings".  If you took the 5 damage from the Bramblethorn rather than falling prone, you could accomplish that with a move action (and your Passive Perception is beyond their Stealth check).  If that is not what you wish, please let me know when you are able.This is one of the great difficulties of play-by-post.  Information conveyance is not real time, not perfect resolution, and context can be lost (or glossed over such as the above where I missed pemerton's intent with his declared action).</blockquote>

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