03-08-2018, 06:38 AM | #71 |
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Re: Buried alive - Need Help
The Wizard has Magery level 5
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03-08-2018, 06:43 AM | #72 |
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03-08-2018, 12:52 PM | #73 | |
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03-08-2018, 01:36 PM | #74 |
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Re: Buried alive - Need Help
Dumb question:
How do spiders bite stone? What I'm envisioning here is that the spiders have the ability to SPIT the venom instead of it being a follow up attack. But if they can't bite the stone, how can they inject it with venom? But then comes the next issue... How many attacks of venom do these beasties have? In other words, if they bite say, three times - and the last of the venom is delivered, are they essentially spent until their bodies can manufacture more venom? The good news is, I'll be able to print the spell list and examine the options to see if there are other venues that can be pursued in this case. By chance, do any of the characters involved have skills to identify traits of the monsters much like naturalist can help determine weak points of creatures? Next - if these are animal level intelligent based creatures, one has to wonder what their natural prey is (what they fear). Then there is the fun issue of imagining how they respond to heat signatures - such as, might they not confuse heat signatures of a given strength - as food? Ah well, time to hit the hay, will look at this over the ensuing night to see what comes to mind... :) |
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03-08-2018, 08:40 PM | #76 |
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Re: Buried alive - Need Help
I wonder why the spiders aren’t using their stone-melting bites to dissolve the floor of the cavern to make a passage down to where you’re Buried Alive?
What is that sound above your heads? Sounds a little like frying bacon, doesn’t it? (Starship Troopers inverted indeed!) Can infravsion see heat signatures through stone? I guess you’d need a different Advantage to do that, though. I hope your GM ain’t visiting the forums this week ;)
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03-08-2018, 11:45 PM | #77 | |
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TBH the DR/HP split in a homogeneous structure is a bit arbitrary here in terms of distinct things, its really just away to model a resistant material in the system! Ultimately though we are talking about a spider that's got a 7' body, and ST26 it's a bit of a beast! And it's DF! (ie we start bringing realistic zoology in, this thing collapses under it's own weight and suffocates long before it moults into its final 7' form) As per my point earlier about liking the dungeon fantasy ecology here, I can can actually see a colony of such spiders doing well in an underground environment as they will (slowly) be able to shape their environment though this method. In fact if we're wondering how this apparently massive and featureless cavern came about, it may well be partly due to the work of a large colony of acid spiders over a long period of time! *it is a pretty fantasy acid as well! Last edited by Tomsdad; 03-09-2018 at 02:32 AM. |
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03-09-2018, 12:57 AM | #78 |
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Heh,
I have to say maybe I've been a GM to long but when I checked up the stats of these things due to this thread, my instant unconsciousness response was to quickly picture what their grappling would be like under TG. ST26, SM+2, 4 sets of arms and a nasty bite? It's not pretty! (I'd have to give them at least some brawling skill first though!) |
03-15-2018, 07:43 AM | #79 |
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Re: Buried alive - Need Help
Update
So the session was played last night and we're still alive and back on track in the dungeon. After waking from our rest the ceiling of our artificial cave was beginning to collapse. The acid spiders where using their acid to dissolve a hole into our chamber. A large pool of acid leaked through but we used Shape Stone to seal the ceiling again. While arguing/discussion the Air Vortex, Trap, Tunneling solutions we were unaware that the acid pooled on our floor was dissolving a way down. A few meters to be exact until a slight murmor evolved into a roar and then visually to a underground river with a vicious current. I cast Breather water on everyone and sunlight into the hole. However the Mage continued to shape more stone and get us into the tunnel just above the raging river. He shaped the slab we were standing on a few dozen meters into the tunnel until something dispelled my sunlight. At that point it became clear that we weren't talking about just some acid spiders, there was a spellcasting "something" there as well. I cast Breathe Water on everyone and jumped in. The others grumbled because they had been holding me back on the issue but soon followed. We came out of the mountain riding the waterfall we entered behind in the beginning. Turns out the underground river was just above the tunnel we used to enter the complex. So after a rest we went back in and kept our bearings alot better, managed to sneak though the enormous cavern and enter another set of tunnels on the other side. Well, I won't be recounting any more of the adventure now or in the future but I wanted to thank everyone that contributed for their help. p.s. The best solution offered was the seek air one because that would have revealed the river tunnel below immediatly. Air vortex wouldn't have worked since 6lbs max would mean none of our gear would join us and Tunneling through would have been sheer madness in time, mana and because of the issue of the murderous barbarian. |
03-15-2018, 08:01 AM | #80 |
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Re: Buried alive - Need Help
cool!
Cheers for letting us know how it ended up TD |
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