When the GM gips you (a rant)
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Storyteller01
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Cedric said:
Probably should have thought of that. As it stood, I was playing a 3rd level character that could do 2d6 damage once (takes two rounds to reload) then has to deal with undead in the double digits with a bayonet. Anything seemed preferable to that.
jmucchiello
Hero
Hold on, hold on. Could the NPC have had a necklace of fireballs? Even a 1st level NPC can throw a 9d6 fireball with one of them. All may not be as it seems. (Though cynically I bet it is a 9th level NPC.)
Arrgh! Mark!
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My suggestion is to go game again and see if the showboating continues. If the PC's continuously get handed stuff they can't handle and then get saved by NPC's.. I don't know if I'd enjoy that.
I've always thought the best thing an NPC can do is give a clue, followed by dramatically die and give a clue. (no more clues, see?)
I've always thought the best thing an NPC can do is give a clue, followed by dramatically die and give a clue. (no more clues, see?)
trancejeremy
Adventurer
Honestly, if I were the DM, I would have let it have worked regardless of the die roll, simply because it was a very clever idea. (Although does strong alcohol even come in kegs? Usually just beer and such, I thought, for the very reason you wanted to use them)
Kae'Yoss
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An end result of 10 against a rolling keg? Sounds like a sure hit!
As the others said, 10+1-5+2 (base + size - dex 0 + circumstances) sounds about right. Definetly not more than +2, maybe even less. Yes, the barrels are moving, but I don't think their movement was very fast or erratic. Barrels rolling down the street have the tendency not to dodge your shots.
Even if it didn't quite it, I'd be inclined to make it happen because the players thought instead of charging blindly at the enemy.
It would probably not have been an explosion, but the undead would have had barrels of burning liquid to deal with, with all that lighting up like a christmas tree going on.
Anyway, as the others said: Hang on and see what happens. Maybe it was a one-time thing, just to get it out of his system
I did it myself, occasionally: Have my pet NPC show up and blow things up big time. Guilty as charged. I didn't do it encounter after encounter, though, just once or twice, to show the party that there are powerful bastards around, the world being a dangerous place and all (Incidently, it was an evil campaign, he sent them on their mission, and was my in-game reminder that stupid infighting would not be tolerated. I did that because I had seen evil games befoe where the party was constantly backstabbing each other, players using meta-game knowledge to "win" and all that crap. Sickened me.) The rest of the time (which was easily more than 99% of the time), the characters were the stars.
As the others said, 10+1-5+2 (base + size - dex 0 + circumstances) sounds about right. Definetly not more than +2, maybe even less. Yes, the barrels are moving, but I don't think their movement was very fast or erratic. Barrels rolling down the street have the tendency not to dodge your shots.
Even if it didn't quite it, I'd be inclined to make it happen because the players thought instead of charging blindly at the enemy.
It would probably not have been an explosion, but the undead would have had barrels of burning liquid to deal with, with all that lighting up like a christmas tree going on.
Anyway, as the others said: Hang on and see what happens. Maybe it was a one-time thing, just to get it out of his system
I did it myself, occasionally: Have my pet NPC show up and blow things up big time. Guilty as charged. I didn't do it encounter after encounter, though, just once or twice, to show the party that there are powerful bastards around, the world being a dangerous place and all (Incidently, it was an evil campaign, he sent them on their mission, and was my in-game reminder that stupid infighting would not be tolerated. I did that because I had seen evil games befoe where the party was constantly backstabbing each other, players using meta-game knowledge to "win" and all that crap. Sickened me.) The rest of the time (which was easily more than 99% of the time), the characters were the stars.
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