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[harknail]

Jul 13, 2010 11:48:50 GMT -5 Ogremind said:

Determining Cover for Melee Attacks
✦ Defender’s Burden: The target of a melee attack
has to prove that it has cover. That proof consists of
a line between the attacker and the defender that is
blocked by a solid object.
✦ Corner to Corner: The defender has cover if an
imaginary line from a corner of the attacker’s space
to a corner of the defender’s space is blocked.
✦ Getting Technical: If you need to be extremely
precise, choose a square the attacker occupies and
a square the defender occupies. Draw an imaginary
line from every corner of the attacker’s space to every
corner of the defender’s space. If even one line is
obstructed, the defender has cover. (A line that runs
parallel right along a wall isn’t blocked.)
✦ Superior Cover: Only specific terrain features (such
as grates and arrow slits) grant superior cover from
melee attacks.

That is jaw droopingly stupid. Do you realize that this means that, if you are facing a 3 square wide dragon, you have cover from it if there happens to be a pillar next to it on the same side of it as you, even if you aren't next to the pillar?
Heck, if a party of 8 surrounds a two square wide monster on all of its faces, all of them would have cover from it.

It's not that bad, you just trace lines from 1 square of a monster, not every square. The monster selects the square, and of course it selects the square that doesn't give you cover (i.e. the square in front of you). I haven't seen any nonsense results from it yet.

[Ogremind]

No, it specifically says that the Defender gets to pick the square. Actually, both squares, so the cover would be mutual.
Though I'm not sure if melee has the same allies-provide-cover thing that ranged attacks do.

[Michael]

+1 from no ally being closer to target.

[harknail]

Jul 13, 2010 13:06:27 GMT -5 Ogremind said:

No, it specifically says that the Defender gets to pick the square. Actually, both squares, so the cover would be mutual.
Though I'm not sure if melee has the same allies-provide-cover thing that ranged attacks do.

To keep things from getting too weird, the GM will select squares that provide the least cover, same result as if the attacker picked the best square for them. As you point out, having the defender pick the square can result in nonsense results.

Jul 13, 2010 13:45:49 GMT -5 Michael said:

+1 from no ally being closer to target.

Ah, thanks. I had forgotten about that Warlock attribute.

[Ogremind]

Jul 13, 2010 13:58:22 GMT -5 harknail said:

Jul 13, 2010 13:06:27 GMT -5 Ogremind said:

No, it specifically says that the Defender gets to pick the square. Actually, both squares, so the cover would be mutual.
Though I'm not sure if melee has the same allies-provide-cover thing that ranged attacks do.

To keep things from getting too weird, the GM will select squares that provide the least cover, same result as if the attacker picked the best square for them. As you point out, having the defender pick the square can result in nonsense results.

That works better -- still, the penalty for attacking around a corner that only happens for melee is annoying.

[crysun]

Zynthis shifts, says a prayer for injured Harknail and attacks his adjacent enemy.

SPOILER: Click to show

Move: Shift to N7
Minor: Healing Word Harknail
[dice=6]+9+3=18 pts of healing
Standard: Righteous Brand the dollar sign critter
[dice=20]+9=22 vs AC
[dice=10]+5=6 pts damage
Effect: Give Raylynn +3 melee vs $

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[harknail]

Jul 14, 2010 1:32:32 GMT -5 crysun said:

Zynthis shifts, says a prayer for injured Harknail and attacks his adjacent enemy.

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Move: Shift to N7
Minor: Healing Word Harknail

Standard: Righteous Brand the dollar sign critter

waiting on die roller

Um, the Dollar sign critter is an elf, not a kobold. That's why all of those extra circles are yellow, they are all allies, specifically the captives you are here to free.

[Ogremind]

Clearly, we need to work on FF identification.

[crysun]

Zynthis takes a defensive posture after healing Harknail.

SPOILER: Click to show

Standard: Total Defense

[harknail]

The Kobold Piker tries to shift past Thursagan, provoking Thursagan's combat challenge. The kobold is out to kill someone, and that someone isn't Thrusagan any more...

Sorry, don't have time for a full kobold turn. But Thursagan gets a basic attack on the Kobold for trying to ignore him 10

[elricz]

Jul 15, 2010 1:56:37 GMT -5 harknail said:

The Kobold Piker tries to shift past Thursagan, provoking Thursagan's combat challenge. The kobold is out to kill someone, and that someone isn't Thrusagan any more...

Sorry, don't have time for a full kobold turn. But Thursagan gets a basic attack on the Kobold for trying to ignore him 10

Thursagan takes the opportunity eagerly!

SPOILER: Click to show

Att. vs. AC, Damage (1d20+8+3=28, 1d10+6+3=16)
The +3 is because of the Devoted Challenge feat

Sorry for the late, I didn't connect this weekend[/color]

[elricz]

By the way, I have started using iPlay4 to store characters. Thursagan is there, and it should be up to date in healing surges, HP and powers used53

[harknail]

Jul 18, 2010 22:37:35 GMT -5 elricz said:

By the way, I have started using iPlay4 to store characters. Thursagan is there, and it should be up to date in healing surges, HP and powers used53

I have the entire campaign on iPlay4e here, including another copy of Thursagan. I'm not using it for tracking yet, because it would be too difficult to to send the status reports after each turn for those not signed up (now it's just copy and paste). But it's great for looking up what powers do, better than either the PDF or the Web Site, and much better than firing up Windows so I can look at the Character Builder. And when the next version is released, it will be even better, letting me look at all characters skills or all magic items in a single view.

If anyone would like to send me their Google handle or google account e-mail address, I can add you to the campaign. If we could get everyone on, we could use it for tracking instead of text files. If you'd rather not put your e-mail address on a public forum, just send it as a private message.

[harknail]

Jul 18, 2010 22:29:50 GMT -5 elricz said:

Thursagan takes the opportunity eagerly!
Sorry for the late, I didn't connect this weekend

The Kobold Pikeman pays with his life for the mistake of ignoring Thursagan.

No Problem, I didn't have time before now to run a turn, or I would have just rolled for you.

[harknail]

There was only one kobold left alive in the room. And it was bloodied. And trapped by Harknail. Who had just been healed by Thursagan. But even with no hope of winning the kobold did not ask for quarter. Nor did Harknail, follower of the God of War, offer any.

The kobold strikes at Harknail, but his spear skids harmlessly off the steel plates that make up Harknail's outer layer of "skin".

SPOILER: Click to show

Atk vs AC, damage: (1d20+6=18, 1d8=4)

Harknail responds in kind, striking the kobold with a holy strike and smiting it. with a sword ignited in holy light.

The sounds of battle fade away as folk look around and realize that there are no kobolds left in this area.

Final status:

SPOILER: Click to show

H = Harknail:
AC 21 - Fort 15 - Ref 15 - Will 15 - Speed 5
HP 32+8/37 - Heal 9 - Surges 11/13 - Second Wind 1/1 - Action Points 1
Encounter: Piercing Smite 1/1 - Channel Divinity 1/1 - Warforged Resolve 0/1
Encounter: Call of Challenge 0/1
Daily: Paladin's Judgement 1/1 - Lay on Hands 2/2

L = Laira:
AC 16 - Fort 13 - Ref 15 - Will 16 - Speed 6
HP 31/31 - Heal 7 - Surges 7/8 - Second Wind 1/1 - Action Points: 1
Encounter: Witchfire 1/1 - Commander's Strike 1/1 - Scorching Burst 1/1 - Beguiling Tongue 1/1
Daily: Armor of Agathys 0/1

O = Orsik:
AC 17 - Fort 15 - Ref 12 - Will 17 - Speed 5
HP 24/30 - Heal 7 - Surges 7/9 - Second Wind 1/1 - Action Points 1
Encounter: Channel Divinity 1/1 - Lightning's Revelation 0/1 - Divine Call 1/1
Daily: Silent Malediction 1/1

S = Sanem:
AC 19 - Fort 13 - Ref 17 - Will 13 - Speed 7
HP 27/30 - Heal 7 - Surges 6/7 - Second Wind 1/1 - Action Points: 1
Encounter: Elven Accuracy 1/1 - Fox's Cunning 1/1 - Yield Ground 1/1
Daily: Hunter's Bear Trap 1/1 - Thunderburst Weapon Attack 1/1

P = Persephone:
AC 16 - Fort 12 - Ref 16 - Will 14 - Speed 2, Fly 7 (hover)
HP 24/24 - Heal 6 - Surges 1/2

R = Raylynn:
AC 17 - Fort 15 - Ref 15 - Will 14
HP 33/33 - Heal 8 - Surges 9/9 - Second Wind 1/1 Action Points 1
Encuonter: Fey Step 1/1 - Shielding Cube 1/1 - Swift Mender 1/1 - Healing Infusion 2/2
Daily: Punishing Eye 1/1

T = Thursagan:
AC 20 - Fort 16 - Ref 14 - Will 14 - Speed 5
HP 34+3/37 - Heal 9 - Surges 8/12 - Second wind 0/1 - Action Points 1-1
Encounter: Passing attack 0/1 - Shielded Sides 0/1
Daily Powers: Villian's menace 1/1 - Craghammer power 0/1

A = Zachery:
+1? +4? - AC 19 - Fort 13 - Ref 17 - Will 15 - Speed 6
HP 32/32 - Heal 8 - Surges 4/7 - Second wind 1/1 - Action Points 2-1
Encounter: Staff of Defense 1/1 - Chill Strike 0/1
Daily Powers: Flaming Sphere*/Freezing Cloud 1/1
Utility: Shield(Encounter)*/Feather Fall(Daily) 1/1

Z = Zynthis:
AC 18 - Fort 16 - Ref 11 - Will 16 - Speed 5
HP 22/33 - Heal 8 - Surges 7/7 - Second Wind 1/1 - Action Points: 1
Encounter: Longtooth Shifting 1/1 - Channel Divinity 1/1 - Healing Word 0/2 - Healing Strike 1/1
Daily: Avenging Flame 1/1 - Breaching Armor 0/1 - Shield of Faith 0/1

Tag all, combat time over.45

[Ogremind]

After looking around to see that nothing was ready to jump on him, Zack moves to inspect the bodies of the kobolds that seemed to be casting spells.

[candi]

Raylynn sits down where she is and begins to tinker with her crossbow, adjusting the elasticity of the string and the release mechanism as well as twisting a few bits in the quick load chamber that she'd made herself some time ago. Concerned that the thing was getting worn out, with it's recently failure to strike the thing she pointed it at (because the failure to hit a target could not possible be her fault).

SPOILER: Click to show

Short Rest
PS I have 2 infusions left before the rest so if someone needs healing

Raylynn can get you a surge +1 (without spending a surge) but someone else needs to give up a healing surge, or you can give one up yourself.

[elricz]

Thursagan will go with Raylynn to help with the healing, offering his vitality for anyone in need of it.
He will let others carry the conversation with the elves, diplomacy is not his area of expertise

[Jolith]

Orsik wanders through the dead bodies searching for anything that could help. He learned long ago in the snow covered mountains that you make use of whatever you can find.

He leaves the captives alone, not wanting to talk to them. He had never been great with people and didn't want them to be frightened any more than they already were.

Looking around, "Is that it? I thought there was supposed to be dragons in these caves? I guess rumors are always exaggerated!" Letting out a loud laugh, he continues his search through the bodies.

[luke]

Sanem looks around the encampment checking to see if the raiding Kobalds "liberated" any elven wine, which he will return to elven hands (notably his own)