[DnD 4e PbP] Lair Assault: Forge of the Dawn Titan (OOC & Observation)

Aegis

Thanks for the catch.

Aegis

Also 5 fire damage for Koh-nunDah for ending your turn next to the anvil. Though nice hit nonetheless.

Anialos

3! I do have 2 resist!

Aegis

A few things:

* The Fire-Spitting Statue is in the forge room, as noted by its location. It's not the one in the hallway.
* Please include what type of damage you're doing in your damage rolls. Illusory Ambush, for instance, is psychic damage to which stone statue traps are immune to (in the event it was tried against an actual trap).

Also, pre-empting this reminder as it will almost be guaranteed to come up: the anvil is blocking terrain and therefore you cannot move diagonally past it.

Sakutian

I realized my mistake just after I made my post. Apologies. I would have taken it back but I felt it went against the spirit of the game. Plus it seemed good roleplay to have th einexperienced gnome attacking the wrong statue.

Aegis

You unfortunately can't charge him from your current square as you would be required to move from K12 to L13 (all movement must bring you closer to your target and going K12 to L12 violates this as L13 is closer), which is impossible with the anvil present.

You do have a move action available though so I suppose I'll assume you move past the anvil first then charge in a straight line?

Steelhawk

Aegis,

I did a run as a move action turn as well (+2 squares) and then as a standard I moved my speed and threw in a running jump over the lava that also included a turn around a corner. Is that kosher? I can edit if its not.

And for the rest of you, I think we need some coordination here.....where do you want the dwarf and who's getting the healing word on my next turn?

Aegis

Yea, you run out of movement right over the G15 lava square. You'd need to have your running jump also be a Run action to clear it, which isn't that big of a deal since you've already run once this turn, meaning you already have the -5 attacks & grant CA until the start of your next turn regardless.

Nealneal

Could you Healing Word now since it's a minor action? If so, I think you need the hit points to keep you up. Just in case you get hit by the Fire Statue.

Aegis

He didn't attack you. Teleporting in the dungeon causes 10 fire damage to everything in a close burst 3 from the teleporting creature.

Same mechanic from all that damage by the warlocks in the swinging platform room.

dresdenphile

Oh, sorry. I read the blurb as him chucking a fireball at us.

Aegis

Yea that's just fluff for everything suddenly being on fire.

Anialos

Aegis wrote: »

You unfortunately can't charge him from your current square as you would be required to move from K12 to L13 (all movement must bring you closer to your target and going K12 to L12 violates this as L13 is closer), which is impossible with the anvil present.

You do have a move action available though so I suppose I'll assume you move past the anvil first then charge in a straight line?

That works! I can't find the must move closer part in the compendium, but that's why I left his move available. Gonna be interesting getting to him next turn. What exactly does the lava do?

Aegis

20 fire damage for each square entered and then again at the end of a person's turn if they're still in it.

It's like what Laggard experienced in the boiling mud, but worse.

Steelhawk

Alright, since I can't make the jump anyway, I'll nix the run action and just double move into the room. Can I save that Athletics roll for next turn? Athletics = 24?


As for the healing word, I was hoping to have us all bunched up a little more to share some temp HP and I'd use it on a more burly front line fighter type. But we're running out of time. I guess I'll use it now.

Aegis

But you can make the jump with a double-run?

(Unless this is what you did in your post and I interpreted your second part as being a normal running jump move action and then confused everyone)

Steelhawk

It was a run, then a normal running jump move.

Now I've retconned it into a double move, then a healing surge. And in between work it took me 45min to edit that post. We'll call it day.

Steelhawk

Hey fellow players, the last few stat blocks that have been copied and posted do not include the changes that I edited in after I retconned the healing surge into my turn. Not big deal, but I just wanted to warn people before small errors become compounded.

Aegis

I have a master file and always update things on my own, going through players' actions, so it's fine.

Anialos

I can take probably 2 more hits from this guy before I bite it, given we only have ~5 turns left that might be enough. Hopefully we can get some fire power on this dude and finish him off.

Aegis

Melgar couldn't make it to F17 because of the corner on the wall so I put him in E17, which works out great since Jessup also wanted to go into F17.

Also I missed Melgar by 1

Nealneal

Whether we survive this or not, I will definitely be using Bjorn's build again. He's out of self healing, but considering he's healed himself for 65 hit points I think it's worked pretty well.

Nealneal

Dammit...I just noticed that I didn't explicitly note the Servant should remain marked in the attack line.

Sakutian

Would it be better to finish off that servant or drop the big boss down a peg? Open to your thoughts.

Aegis

Sceolan I don't believe you have line of sight on Mordai from where you are on account of the idol being in the way.

You'd have to move out from those bars.

moleface

Ah ok, my bad. I figured since the anvil was specifically spelled out as blocking LOS that the idol just counted as cover. In that case I will move to E15 before attacking and I will update my turn to reflect that

Nealneal

Personally, I'd rather you took out the servant so I can move out and get in position to help with Le Grande Nasty, but at this point I think either would be great.

Sakutian

Alright, well since Jonh Carter came out last night I've been stuck at work for a long period of time. I'll make a post for Jessup tonight because I'm not really supposed to be using my phone at work.

Aegis

Didn't realize you were still waiting on me to finish your turn, whoops.

That fire resistance just saved that Servant's life.

Nealneal

Of course I roll the 20 on the save and not the attack. Oh well, at least I knocked someone into the lava. Goal achieved.

Aegis

Huh, funny story: lava is not considered difficult terrain.

Steelhawk

Damn....how are we going to get Jessup out of this one? If he wasn't bathing in the lava, it'd be a different story....

moleface

Is there anything I can do since I'm right next to him? Can I drag him out? Forcefeed him my healing potion? Or is it better to try and kill the bad guys and save him next turn? Mordai is super close to us too

Anialos

Should be able to drag him out, although killing the bad guys needs to happen soon.

Steelhawk

If Jessup (or anyone, really) fails a death save, then Laggard has a daily imm. interrupt that will allow you to turn it into a 20+ and spend a surge.

But that doesn't help if the lava melts him first.

Nealneal

Won't he die if he's still in the lava at the end of his turn since he'll go down to -34? I say pull him outta da fire!

Steelhawk

This is what I'm saying!

And it'd be even worse for him if he takes the burning damage at the start of his turn, before any healing can be applied, rather than the end.

Aegis

Lava damage takes effect on moving into a square and ending your turn in it. There's no damage at the start of a turn.

moleface

So as far as I can tell I want to pull, and pulling is a movement action that requires no rolling of any sort, is that correct? I can drag him to any square within my movement range and then still do a standard and minor?

Aegis

There...aren't really rules for moving downed characters. Closest is the rules on dragging things, but that just notes Strength scores and amount you can carry, lift, drag which you easily pass. We can just say it takes a move action to drag it.