tdr: Oops! Not sure why I missed you, sorry. :\ As for Tuggle's MM, when I was going back to sum up damage, my eye settled on "4 damage total" at the end of her post -- I fixed it now (9 total). Thanks for catching that.
glincaelin: No worries. I've been making mistakes right and left here...
Artemis: I think cueing up a default action is a neat idea. When I was first coming up with the guidelines, my thinking on total defense was that it's the thing least likely to get you killed -- "attack nearest" might not be what you want to do at all if "nearest" is, say, something that got summoned that's
much nastier than what you were fighting before.
If you guys like the cued action idea, why don't you give me a sample one for each of you so we can discuss them as a group -- just post it here. As far as Thanksgiving goes, if this combat is still going on I was planning to put it on hold for the weekend.
Xen: Not per se, but you can guess at its damage relative to the gremlyn grenades -- they do 3d6, and are about the size of a grapefruit. The knockerbomb is a small barrel, maybe a foot around and 16' or so high, and it's designed to blow through reinforced doors and walls.
