To kill a troll

[Pielorinho]

Daniel, you are one cold, cold man. That was brilliant!!!

Thanks!

The scene was grimly funny: we were underground, and because we thought we were getting ready to fight fire elementals, I like a fool hadn't prepared any fire spells. And we were out of flasks of acid or alchemist's fire -- all we had was a cantrip that did 1d3 points of acid damage, not enough to get past the unconscious ogre's resistances.

So I, a druid, wildshaped into a horse, and one of my companions tied the ogre mage into a harness that I could drag behind me. My other companion kept beating the ogre mage up to keep it unconscious.

We dragged it to a pool of water about ten minutes away through the dungeon, beating its head in constantly along the way, and finally rolled it off and into the water.

That damn thing *wasn't* getting away!

Daniel

 

[Krafen]

Another good option is the Druid spell in Magic of Faerun that drowns the target. I forget the name of the spell, though.

 

[Grommilus]

i called it an ooze cause i didn't know what it was, but it was covered in garbage and we weren't about to shift around its internals to do an autopsy. we just hacked off the head looking part and then hacked the rest into little pieces =)

 

[Brekki]

Isn't there a rule that you get normal damage after your subdual damage exceeds double your hitpoints ?

 

[hong]

Isn't there a rule that you get normal damage after your subdual damage exceeds double your hitpoints ?

Not for combat damage, no.

 

[0-hr]

We dragged it to a pool of water about ten minutes away through the dungeon, beating its head in constantly along the way,

From the SRD:

When a character's subdual damage exceeds the character's current hit points, the character falls unconscious. While unconscious, a character is helpless.
Each full minute that a character is unconscious, a character has a 10% chance to wake up and be staggered until the character's hit points exceed a character's subdual damage again. Nothing bad happens to a character if the character misses this roll.

Beating the ogre's head is pointless once he is unconscious, he has a 10% chance each minute of waking up regardless.

 

[Pielorinho]

From the SRD:Beating the ogre's head is pointless once he is unconscious, he has a 10% chance each minute of waking up regardless.

Not pointless at all. Every round, that ogre was regenerating 3 of those points of subdual damage. Had we not beat his head, he would have definitely woken up and been able to act normally -- no good at all.

And had he woken up and been staggered, why, he would've gotten a partial action and then collapsed again. No problem.

Daniel

 

[Lord Ben]

Once someone is unconcious and it's not battle I just switch to RP mode. IE, they'll start groaning and give the PC's a chance to whack them again instead of just standing up and immediately starting to attack with only 3hp left or something.

I also don't make CDG and issue really, but it's nice for one Troll to drag his buddy out of combat.