11-06-2018, 11:56 PM | #11 |
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Re: I smell a Rat + Halls of Justice (spoilers for the former)
The Gaze attack uses Innate Attack (Gaze). If we look at Adventurers p79, Innate Attack (Gaze) is DX/Easy.
Gaze requires you to be facing your target. It is most certainly possible to pin someone face down. |
11-07-2018, 01:05 AM | #12 | ||
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Re: I smell a Rat + Halls of Justice (spoilers for the former)
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Which, if nothing else is done to beef Merle up, means it's a 3 or 4 round fight, tops. |
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11-07-2018, 02:28 AM | #13 |
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Re: I smell a Rat + Halls of Justice (spoilers for the former)
Not sure how effective Merle is intended to be. It's really not that hard for a damage optimized build to shred him.
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11-07-2018, 04:03 AM | #14 | |
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I think the OP just wants him to |
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11-09-2018, 07:00 PM | #15 |
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Re: I smell a Rat + Halls of Justice (spoilers for the former)
Merle is intended to be an anticlimax / pushover bathos moment as opposed to a real boss fight, yeah. My group snuck up, saw where he was, and then charged up an 18d6 explosive lightning-bolt and threw it at him, killing him before combat even began.
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11-10-2018, 02:33 AM | #16 |
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Re: I smell a Rat + Halls of Justice (spoilers for the former)
Clever move on your party's part (Perception 14 means the tactic isn't exactly a given without the right spells) but he doesn't seem that anti-climactic to me. Only 9 HP but Unkillable and DR 5, Hard to Subdue 6, MR 6 means he'll be around for awhile. HPT means he won't care about shock so he'll be a reasonable threat for the duration. Looks to me like he should last more than a couple of turns.
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11-10-2018, 06:35 AM | #17 |
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Re: I smell a Rat + Halls of Justice (spoilers for the former)
Merle is set up so that a group that doesn't bring any heavy-hitters can still deal with him, although it might be a bit of a slog. If your group has a bard, a thief, a cleric, and a wizard who went heavy on the utility spells, they can still handle him.
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11-10-2018, 12:23 PM | #18 |
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Re: I smell a Rat + Halls of Justice (spoilers for the former)
Any group that can handle the peshkali doesn't seem like it should have an issue with Merle.
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11-10-2018, 12:47 PM | #19 |
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