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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragoslav" data-source="post: 6092216" data-attributes="member: 6690267">Aside from being (perhaps dubiously) useful in crossing deserts, giant centipedes are also useful for killing PCs, as I learned from my first session GMing last night.EDIT: (The following story is from playing Shadows of Esteren, not D&D)One of my players also threw an interesting curveball my way last night (We were running a game called Shadows of Esteren). They were in a ruined refinery, and one of the PCs had been dragged into a large vat containing a carnivorous mutant plant. Another player's PC had been peering into an adjacent vat out of curiosity. Since the only way to attack the heart of the plant was to get inside the vat by climbing the ladder into it, the player, whose PC is sort of a gadgeteer, decided to fashion a molotov cocktail using some lamp oil, a strip of cloth from her tunic, and her mechanical lighter and then throw it into the vat containing the plant and the other PC. So there were a couple of problems here. 1) I was only expecting players to fight the monster from within the vat if they were going to fight it at all. 2) I had to adjudicate the DC of arcing an explosive into a nearby vat. 3) There are no rules for non-magical weapons with an area of effect.In true "roll dice or say yes" fashion, I told the player to make a Craft check to make the molotov cocktail in one round, and then she could throw it on the next. She passed, and on the next turn, she threw it. I put the DC fairly low, since she only had to throw it into the middle of a 16-foot diameter vat and didn't need to arc it since she was on the same level. So then for the damage I just used the damage for a low-level magic spell (the rules for magic are pretty uniform, so it was easy), and since it's a plant I ruled that it didn't get a chance to resist due to its vulnerability to fire. Then I agreed to say that the plant was taking ongoing damage as the fire spread, especially since the plant had so many HP that I didn't think it would matter -- the trapped PC got digested by the plant and everyone ran off, as I had hoped. (it was a dream sequence, so I killed the whole party)</blockquote>

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