06-10-2019, 01:37 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Saint Paul, MN
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Grave of the Pirate Queen - Grappling question
I'm going to mention an early encounter from "Grave of the Pirate Queen" (Pyramid 3/98) as a prelude to some questions about when monsters use grappling attacks with unusual appendages. If you're likely to be a player in this adventure at some point, you may want to skip this thread, though it's not a particularly consequential encounter.
The Giant Crab in David Pulver's adventure tries to grapple foes with its claws. Here's the pertinent text from its description: "It enjoys grabbing prey and pulling them apart. . . . Any hit counts as a grapple, regardless of whether it penetrates DR." Bizarrely, after multiple decades of playing GURPS, I have almost never used the grappling rules, and I haven't used them in DFRPG yet. (I've read Douglas Cole's Fantastic Dungeon Grappling, but haven't used them yet either. For shame, I know.) As I've considered the crab battle, I've been mulling over the following questions (assume the standard grappling rules (Exploits, p. 40-41):
Last edited by Dalin; 06-10-2019 at 10:00 PM. Reason: Adjusted framing of the question since my players don't have to avoid it anymore. |
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