Main Camp

[harknail]

Jun 1, 2010 12:23:36 GMT -5 Ogremind said:

Harknail, how tall are those raised portions of the map that the captives and kobolds are standing on, and how high is the ceiling?

The raised portions are 10 feet (2 squares) up. The ceiling slopes up from 20 feet (4 squares) on the left to 30 feet (6 squares) on the right. The elevated sections provide cover.

[elricz]

Jun 1, 2010 12:35:28 GMT -5 harknail said:

The raised portions are 10 feet (2 squares) up. The ceiling slopes up from 20 feet (4 squares) on the left to 30 feet (6 squares) on the right. The elevated sections provide cover.

How can the melee characters get there? What set of actions are needed, and what would be the penalties?

[Ogremind]

Rules for climbing (because, trust me, you aren't going to make it jumping):

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Surface Athletics DC
Ladder 0
Rope 10
Uneven surface (cave wall) 15
Rough surface (brick wall) 20
Slippery surface +5
Unusually smooth surface +5

Climb
Make an Athletics check to climb up or down a surface.
Different circumstances and surfaces make
climbing easier or harder.
Climb: Part of a move action.
✦ DC: See the table. If you use a climber’s kit, you get
a +2 bonus to your Athletics check. If you can brace
yourself between two surfaces, you get a +5 bonus
to your check.
✦ Success: You climb at one-half your speed. When
you climb to reach the top of a surface, such as when
you climb out of a pit, the distance to reach the top
includes allowing you to arrive in the square adjacent
to the surface. The last square of movement
places you on that square.
✦ Fail by 4 or Less: You stay where you started and
lose the rest of your move action, but you don’t fall.
You can try again as part of a move action.
✦ Fail by 5 or More: You fall (see “Falling,” page 284)
and lose the rest of your move action.
✦ Grant Combat Advantage: While you are climbing,
all enemies have combat advantage against you.
✦ Uses Movement: Count the number of squares you
climb as part of your move.
✦ Taking Damage: If you take damage while climbing,
you must make a Climb check using the DC for the
surface you’re climbing. If that damage makes you
bloodied, increase the DC by 5. If you fail the check,
you fall from your current height. If you try to catch
hold when you fall, add the damage you take to the
DC to catch yourself.
✦ Catch Hold: If you fall while climbing, you can make
an Athletics check as a free action to catch hold of
something to stop your fall. The base DC to catch
hold of something is the DC of the surface you were
climbing plus 5, modified by circumstances. You can
make one check to catch hold. If you fail, you can’t
try again unless the DM rules otherwise.
✦ Climb Speed: While climbing, creatures that have
a climb speed (such as monstrous spiders) use that
speed, ignore difficult terrain, do not grant combat
advantage because of climbing, and do not make
Athletics checks to climb.

[elricz]

Jun 1, 2010 13:10:38 GMT -5 Ogremind said:

✦ Success: You climb at one-half your speed. When
you climb to reach the top of a surface, such as when
you climb out of a pit, the distance to reach the top
includes allowing you to arrive in the square adjacent
to the surface. The last square of movement
places you on that square.

This is where we may have trouble: there are kobolds on both squares that a climbing character can reach, so there is no place to land by the rules. Can we move, climb as part of the move, balance there somehow (squeezing rules?) and make an attack?

[luke]

Sorry, I've been out of town unexpectedly! Sanem runs up to Raylynn and make Purple1 his quarry (Moving to I6). He lets her make her shot, then he makes his own:

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Twin Strike:

[dice=20]	+10	14
[dice=20]	+10	18

Quarry Bonus [dice=6]
Damage

[dice=10]	+2	10
[dice=10]	+2	5

I didn't add in the +1/hit and +3/damage, so please use if appropriate.[rand=1377273191668572505395319908322699042595553660133058644721269256]

[Ogremind]

I'm thinking that Zack and Sanem need to line up in formation with Raylynn whenever possible (and probably the Invoker, too, with his hit-three-enemies attack). Given the number of attacks we make between us, she could be giving us something like 10 to 20 extra points of damage.

[candi]

Yup. Yay for my best power choice 99% of the time being an at-will power Shielding Cube only sees use when I can't get adjacent to someone, or I don't care to. Probably going to retrain it to the Magic Weapon look-alike level 1 encounter power

The only thing I caution against is staying like that too much because then Harknail will get sick of my massive buffs and slap us around with some AoE's because we're balled up.

Also, when possible if we can get grouped like that Zynthis should be tossing his Righteous Brand to hit bonus at Raylynn if she's in range for it, giving Magic Weapon a higher to hit bonus means a better chance of Raylynn granting her to hit and damage bonuses to the multi-targeting strikers. Oh the joys of using enabling leader powers to enable leader powers

Hrm, in the interest of keeping my attacks varied and also challenging myself I hereby resolve to try and describe every attack uniquely (even if it's an attack I've used before, no description will be used twice) - so Magic Weapon will never again be a puff of magic smoke.

[harknail]

Jun 2, 2010 11:27:37 GMT -5 luke said:

Sorry, I've been out of town unexpectedly! Sanem runs up to Raylynn and make Purple1 his quarry (Moving to I6). He lets her make her shot, then he makes his own:

As Sanem approachs, Raylynn fires at Kobold Cleaver (purple 1), her crossbow bolt hit the kobold solidly in the chest, killing it instantly.

Sanem will have to pick a new target. Laira can teleport.

[harknail]

Jun 2, 2010 12:40:44 GMT -5 candi said:

Yup. Yay for my best power choice 99% of the time being an at-will power Shielding Cube only sees use when I can't get adjacent to someone, or I don't care to. Probably going to retrain it to the Magic Weapon look-alike level 1 encounter power

The only thing I caution against is staying like that too much because then Harknail will get sick of my massive buffs and slap us around with some AoE's because we're balled up.

Also, when possible if we can get grouped like that Zynthis should be tossing his Righteous Brand to hit bonus at Raylynn if she's in range for it, giving Magic Weapon a higher to hit bonus means a better chance of Raylynn granting her to hit and damage bonuses to the multi-targeting strikers. Oh the joys of using enabling leader powers to enable leader powers

Hrm, in the interest of keeping my attacks varied and also challenging myself I hereby resolve to try and describe every attack uniquely (even if it's an attack I've used before, no description will be used twice) - so Magic Weapon will never again be a puff of magic smoke.

Anytime the heroes are in a group, those monsters with area attacks will try to focus on the group. You'll need to adapt strategies based on what you're fighting.

[candi]

Raylynn's shot would've hit first, in order for Sanem to get the Magic Weapon benefit so Sanem should have to pick the new target(s)

[harknail]

Jun 2, 2010 14:15:50 GMT -5 candi said:

Raylynn's shot would've hit first, in order for Sanem to get the Magic Weapon benefit so Sanem should have to pick the new target(s)

Duh, you're right. Editing previous post

[luke]

Green3 then! Pew pew!

[Ogremind]

Green3? But, wouldn't that mean that Sanem isn't using hunter's quarry on it? The blue and cyan kobolds are closer to him.

[harknail]

Jun 2, 2010 15:01:23 GMT -5 luke said:

Green3 then! Pew pew!

The first shot strikes the cliff, but thanks to Raylynns magic, the second shot misses the cliff and strikes the kobold in his leg.

That +1 was what took to get past the cover

[luke]

Thats a good point, Persephone will fly to o8 and make the green one my quarry properly.

[Michael]

Laira Elereth reappears at J4, supporting Harknail.

[harknail]

Jun 2, 2010 17:00:28 GMT -5 luke said:

Thats a good point, Persephone will fly to o8 and make the green one my quarry properly.

I guessing you meant O5, since O8 is closer to Red 2 and Green 4 than it is to Green 3.

[harknail]

Jun 2, 2010 17:04:17 GMT -5 Michael said:

Laira Elereth reappears at J4, supporting Harknail.

I'm guessing you meant M4, since J4 is inside solid rock.

[Michael]

M4 then.

[harknail]

Harknail shifted to be between the two elusive kobolds (to M2), trapping one of them in his alcove and issuing a Divine Challenge to the other (Cyan 8) followed by a Holy Strike.

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[dice=20]	+8=27
[dice=8]	+6+2=11

Harknail's sword ignited with holy light as it slashed into the kobolds flesh.[rand=929269325919449308031781017780304688860281137749612417280813679099]