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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cordaen" data-source="post: 5176170" data-attributes="member: 90050">Flying DwarfHere's how I resolved a similar difficult issue.Playing  3.5:  Half-Orc fighter with a STR 21 wanted to throw her dwarf party  member who was wearing a horned viking-style helmet across a 10-ft.  pit.  On the other side of the pit was a drow archer.  She held  her action until the dwarf's initiative.  Since her DEX was higher than  the Dwarf's, she we first.  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Move-Equivalent:  Pick up  the Dwarf (dwarf weighed 145 lbs., well below her lift-over-head  capacity)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Standard Action: Throw the Dwarf at the Drow:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ranged  attack, -4 penalty on attack roll as per the Improvised Throwing  Weapons rule.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Strength Check vs. DC of 10 for 5 ft., +1 foot  for each point over 10 rolled.  (she rolled her D20 = 16, STR mod = 5,  Total roll was 21... for an effective max range of 16 ft.)</li> </ul> </li> </ul>On  the Dwarfs action:  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I treated his movement of being thrown  as a Charge (considering he DID move before attacking, he was moving at  least 10 feet, and was traveling in a straight line without  obstructions).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Once he was within melee range of the Drow, he  was allowed a single melee attack with the horns of his helmet<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> -8  penalty on his attack roll because he was using a weapon he wasn't  proficient with (the horned helmet), but he gained a +2 bonus on the  attack roll to compensate for momentum.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the Drow archer been  using a melee weapon, the Drow opponent would have been granted an AOO  toward the Dwarf... who was suffering a -2 to his AC for the Charge</li> </ul> </li> </ul>All  rolls were made in the open, and the attack succeeded.  Damage was  calculated as such:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Dwarf rolled 1d6 (each horn was  treated as a 1d3 piercing weapon), and The Half-Orc's STR mod was  applied to the damage roll.</li> </ul>In order to compensate for the  momentum of a flying dwarf, I modified the rules of Bull Rush.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Opposed  STR rolls between the Half-Orc thrower and the Drow defender.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+2  bonus on the STR check for Bull Rush.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Drow received a +2  stability bonus... he wasn't exceptionally stable, but he was far more  stable than an air-born dwarf.</li> </ul> </li> </ul>Rolls were made, and the  flying dwarf skewered the drow & pushed him back 6 feet (as per the maximum-allowed throwing distance)Ending results:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Both combatants  landed prone.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dwarf took damage as though falling 16 feet  (his total distance of movement).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Since a non-throwing  weapon being thrown has a 50% chance of breaking, a roll was made, and  both horns broke off the helmet.</li> </ul>All in all, the players agreed  it was a fair outcome utilizing what rules were established.  As for my  opinion as a DM... I'll let the players try whatever hair-brained  scheme they want, but they're gonna earn it.  There will be risk, and  like always, dice rolls will be made in the open with a  "hands-where-i-can-see-them" approach.  This of course puts the players  at their own mercy, and makes them think twice about doing stuff like  this... then again, if they roll it and succeed, then they earned it!</blockquote>

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