#he wasn't just a statblock he's a real character!!! and because he's a real character he had a +8 persuasion and the commanding

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Session 3 – Dog fight

Just pure combat baby!

Boss battle time.

Web, the spell, is one of the BEST openers for D&D combat. Just having some opponents be stuck in place really cuts down on problems.

the no charge combat action rule strikes again! Specifically, breaking out of the web was a standard action save of some kind. Probably Strength.

Swish and Flick is sorta from Harry Potter, but all I can think of is the "Potter Puppet Pals" youtube video.

I will admit for this combat, I wasn't tracking damage done and delt to the kobold as closely as I probably should have. Mostly because they're technically a Gnoll, statblock wise.

OH yeah, skeletons and kobolds. But there were skeletons outside, and only kobolds inside. So my initial thought was to have a mixture of the two things throughout, but writing it I only included kobolds in the sorta montage section. So I'm gonna hand wave that plot hole by saying dungeons can easily summon skeletons quickly and cheaply. While the flesh and blood things are harder, but more 'worth it'. So it summons skeletons outside because they're cheap things that keep wildlife away. And skeletons as an emergency because they're quick.

Paul is the genre savvy one. Who sorta knows what everyone else can do. So Tim didn't do turn undead immediately, until Paul reminded them that they could do this. Honestly a real problem at the D&D table where players don't read their entire character sheet.

5e D&D rogues can sneak attack skeletons and undead, but 3.5e D&D rogues could not, because skeletons don't have weak points as it were. And to be specific, Francis can't see skeleton weak points is because he isn't flanking or has any advantage in this particular moment of combat.

Normally, talking during a D&D combat turn is 'free' but only if the sentences are short. Paul's speech is a bit longer, I would argue it takes an action. Maybe a move action if not the standard action.

#an evenings honest peril

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i. man. it really was just normal guys at the end of it all....

#c:crop #not a single living pc left on the battlemap. even our little psuedo-pcs either dead or unconscious #ash dead. santiago gone. #literally just two soldiers and two healers standing under the guardian at the doors of the cathedral and choosing to trust #that at least one of the arboreans didn't want to see a hundred injured people slaughtered #and it. MAN. #they didn't even have any REASON to THINK it! #like. bron in suggesting it and the rest of us all telling meg to go for it had the CONTEXT of. papaye. the knowledge that #there really WAS something with the crimson knight. but all sofia and enzo knew was that he wasn't killing people while they were down. #rocco had been killed patrizia had blown herself up in a desperate hope that it would help ash had been *decapitated* #and they were out of magic. all they had left was half a guardian of faith and their voices. and. MAN. #and they CRIT....not just a good persuasion roll but a CRIT.... #after EVERYTHING with the dice in uberta. after cannelle critting on cami twice after concentration dropping at the worst moments #after the failed persuasion against the unicorn after all the longspearmen hitting fasach and cannelle hitting all his attacks against ash. #after ALL of that. right at the end. when it's just people and just a desperate plea. *then* we get a natural 20. #it's not a win it's barely ANYTHING we LOST the first two battles we LOST the city we lost FASACH but it's. just one last try. #and then the KNIGHT...MAN!!!! it's. game about people!!!! that whole thing worked because meg makes CHARACTERS #he wasn't just a statblock he's a real character!!! and because he's a real character he had a +8 persuasion and the commanding #presence manuever. two things that maybe would never have been relevant if we'd have just killed him like we tried to #and because of those things he beat the DC by 1. #because this is a game about people and allegiances and motivations and every single character is a Person #and that's reflected in their stats because god DAMN if meg doesn't know how to make characters #i. man. what a way for that all to end. #all of us did everything we could. and it wasn't enough. and then at the end of the day just sofia--just one ordinary healer--saved everyone #who was left to save. #jesus christ. game of all time. #sob so true nicki making a post about this same thing while i was mid this one. nice to be on the same page (crying)