[DnD] D&D thread of planning and discussing things so people can see how OCD we all are.

It just occurs to me that there's enough room here for a bad roll to dump someone in the drink and I don't think these things are probably going give that fellow a cupcake and send him on his way. If they're all dead we can even just swim over at our leisure. Plus I think pang might be implying that there's something of interest underwater and whoever checks that out probably doesn't want to be fish food.


Also why wouldn't we want to kill all the fish?. Everyone loves a good old fashioned fish fry!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I dunno. There's probably some non-attack option that we haven't figured out yet. Possibly something to do with weight on the platforms we're on. Let's hold off on frying. Plus it seems like my lightning-based power (Thunderclap Strike) ain't doing any lightning damage when I use it, so I don't know if lightning-enhanced weapons would necessarily fry the water.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

That would be because thunderclap does thunder damage. I'm still not quite sure why they did the whole lightning and thunder damage as different things maneuver really. I guess it's supposed to be equivalent to sonic but that seems like an odd rename.

I don't think there are any official rules on lightning/water combo's but I could swear rigged something for that at least once before.

My only concern here is that once someone's in the water with those things we're going to have to haul them out fast and run for it or engage in an aquatic combat that we're not really built for.

Plus we can't scope out what's going on underwater safely with them around.

Worst case scenario we waste utility power and move on from there.



Edit: Fuck it I'm turning into Zerg lets just go with Shin's rope plan.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I could turn into a tree and feed them acorns.




Just sayin'.

I was speaking idiomatically.

That depends entirely on whether the leaf already in there is an oak leaf. Could you not perhaps jump in the air then turn into a tree, sink to the bottom and see what's down there? I'm pretty sure Pirannah don't eat trees.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Alternatively: We could push him in as a not a tree and they'd be quite full.

If he's not down for that, the tree thing.

FELIPE NO

If we catch any we could see if they'll eat their own kind. If so, chumming the water near Deni and then having him shoot at them would theoretically kill them according to the Mythbusters "fish in a barrel" experiment. Assuming of course that the fish aren't magical. Or the water. It's a magical tomb so all bets are off.

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Is it bad that I'm just now realizing that maybe I WAS supposed to turn into the tree to allow y'all a hook-point for travelling?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ahahaha, you could always chuck the box to Beefi so he can turn into a tree and you guys can swing over using the branches.

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I'm just gonna try to distract the piranha and then jump for it. My athletics is way higher than my acrobatics.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Shin

Ahahaha, you could always chuck the box to Beefi so he can turn into a tree and you guys can swing over using the branches.

I'd be too afraid it'd drop in the water and then suddenly later we're in a Saw film where we actually need it but OOPS FUCKED UP.

How ya doing, buddy?

Has anyone else got plans for the room that preclude me smashing down the wall with the black orb? I imagine there's a fight behind it but if the last room has taught me anything it's that traps and puzzles are much more dangerous to us.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'm pretty bored of all the puzzles, let's smash the shit out of this room and move onto a fight.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Alright I've done all I can I'm running like a bitch next round if I'm still alive. Fucking snakes.

FELIPE NO

Does anyone else have any AoE attacks they can use to murder those snakes? Beefi's not really in the way since he can back-track out before anyone gets as far down the tunnel as he is and if it wasn't for the snakes we could have easily held the fight in that small room. As it is, I reckon a hasty retreat might be the order of the day. If we surround the tunnel entrance and all ready melee attacks we can kill the snakes as they pop out one at a time then fuck up the skeleton afterwards. He can't possibly be as hard as the gargoyle and we killed that in three rounds.

Edit:

Actually, someone could use our "Mow Down" card to wipe out the snakes. Who's got the best chance of hitting them with a melee basic attack?

Edit 2:

It's Garold with +13 for a basic melee attack. If you didn't mind getting into melee range, Chanic, you could potentially murder your way through the lot of them in one turn (It's unlikely but you only need as many good rolls as Cette just made bad ones). If you don't want to move to melee range then Beefi could try it (+12 to hit on a melee basic attack) although the bad guys will of course have to draw some blood before he gets involved in the actual fighting.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Also, I have an area burst 1 encounter power and an area burst 2 daily I could use if we want to hang onto the mow down card. The problem is going to be getting into range since I was so far away when combat started.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ok I've got two heals left and I can go two ways with it. I can concentrate everything on trying to keep myself and deni alive while you guys get down here leaving nothing for the fight itself.

Or I can try to get down the tunnel and hole up until help gets here and we just hope he's lucky enough to make it and or do decent death saves until we can dog pile the enemies.

I can go either way but if I die or burn all the healing I'm thinking we might lose even more people.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So we're going to beat a retreat and try to fight them in the corridor then?

If so, how are we going to get Sam out of there?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

He moves first on initiative and is at about half health so I imagine he can run it and survive the OA's. If anything he's more likely than me to make it out at this point.
Provided of course one can move through the snakes. If he can't do that then I'm not sure it's going to matter much where we fight as we'll be hard pressed to take them out before he's dead.

How ya doing, buddy?

Nah, we're not going to lose anyone here. Pang wouldn't let such a ridiculously unbalanced party lose members in their second fight.

If he does get knocked out, hopefully it'll be the big skeleton that does it rather than the snakes so we can use our card to get hit bonuses against it. I'm still up for using the mow down card to try and kill as many snakes as possible because it's going to take Garold fucking ages to get there and he's the only one with AoE powers at this point.

Assuming the snakes can't move past each other, there might be an argument for fighting them in the tunnel as at least they can only get at us one at a time in there. If Pang's going to let us move through each other as normal, Beefi can block up the tunnel and act as a decent meat-shield to cover your escapes giving us time to regroup a bit before we bring the pain.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Ok so is it safe to assume everyone's down with luring the skeleton out of the room with the big box o minions?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Whatever really. So long as the whole team is in roughly the same place it doesn't matter too much where that place is. Is probably quicker to get you guys out than getting us in though. I imagine that Pang will have the skeleton open the box regardless but hopefully you two won't get murdered as a result if you've got a head start down the tunnel.

I'm still in favour of attempting to wipe out all the snakes in one attack using mow down though, despite the odds of success being not much better than winning the lottery. It would be epic as fuck if Garold made all the rolls.

Anyway, once Beefi sees you two retreating at pace he can get out of the way and we can sit back and wait for the skeleton to emerge then see if we can break the world speed-skeleton-murdering record.

How ya doing, buddy?

Sounds like a plan. Barring that I can always implement my throwing flaming oil all over the fucking place technique for dealing with minions.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?