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05-06-2023, 03:14 AM | #12 | |
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Yeah, yeah, I know, SJG doesn't do that anymore. Really stings for those of us who've bought only printed copies of things released the last decade. No. Reprinted. Sword-armor golem, my bad. The two tend to get confused, especially when I don't revisit the material and just go off memory. I just remember that everyone who fought (twice as a PC and once as a GM running it) that it was "siege-beast" levels of rough due to the very high armor DR (everyone I've played with has either hated siege-beasts because of the high armor and decent damage they do, or ignored them because the Mind Mage just wiped them out). |
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05-06-2023, 12:21 PM | #13 | |
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Fortunately they're also quite slow (Move 2) and easily evaded. If you left the lock intact you may be able to even just lock it back up again in it's cell. Count me as one of the haters, but I love to give players problems that I hate, so I'm a lover and a hater both. |
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05-06-2023, 03:36 PM | #15 |
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Re: I Smell a Rat: Rune-Lined Hallway
When I ran this for some beginning players, the runed hallway was Ælin Rock-Talker's moment to shine. We determined that behind the stone of the hall was mostly earth, so he carved an expensive hole in the wall and then mined a relatively cheap tunnel parallel to the runes. Then one more expensive hole at the end. It wiped out most of his FP, but the rest of the party thought it was well-worth it.
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05-07-2023, 01:25 AM | #16 | |
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If you do mine out a tunnel, you can close off the tunnel mouth to mostly avoid random encounters, too. Shape Earth is such a great spell. |
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05-07-2023, 05:02 PM | #17 |
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Moved earth doesn't move fast enough to attack with it. The Peshkali wold need to be either immobilized or dumb enough to stand around while stone slowly (Move 1) climbed up her.
I've gotten away with it by wrapping golems 'disguised' as statues and such, mostly because the 'trap' trigger wasn't "stone slowly engulfing them" and the golems weren't programmed to deal with that (presumably failed IQ rolls). Now, I would allow a canny Earth Wizard to set up deadfall traps but moving a slab of stone to the ceiling, maintaining, and then making it "let go" of the ceiling and fall on enemies. I've done this back in the 3e days, but I've never seen a caster do it in my games, even when they've had the chance to set up traps. Most like to go the way of "dig a very deep hole, make a super thin cover, drop cover when enemies are on it, close hole over enemies." Which also works. |
05-07-2023, 07:20 PM | #18 |
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It's still a threat she has to honor. I'm not saying that having a moving wall trivializes the Peshkali; but you can cut off her retreat or constrain the ways she can use her step/possibly force her into a Move and Attack instead of an Attack. Not a bad use of your concentration, if you're a druid.
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05-08-2023, 01:14 AM | #19 |
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05-20-2023, 09:42 PM | #20 |
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Re: I Smell a Rat: Rune-Lined Hallway
Would a Dispel Magic from AELin Rock-Talker also have worked?
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