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Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia.

Posted by DM RavenFor group 0
Nalia
player, 24 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Wed 28 Apr 2010
at 19:54
  • msg #8

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

edited
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 408 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 06:38
  • msg #9

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

OOC: Elixir of sneaking gives only bonus to move silently, but since Quinlan is behind cover his exact movements are hard to figure out, unless you succeed on listen checks.

Quinlan continues forward, stealthily, and prepares for the inevitable encounter.

Round 2:
  [Free]
  [Move]Move silently 22
  [Standard] Ready action

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Cast KFB at first sight of Nalia


Status:
  Initiative: 9
  AC (Touch AC): 21 (15)

  Damage Taken: 0
  Damage Dealt: 0

Effects:
+10 Move silently 1 hr
+2 Natural AC, 40 mins

Final position:

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K26

Nalia
player, 25 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 07:45
  • msg #10

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Nalia moves forth determinedly, moving around two corners. She knows her oponent has hidden himself well. Her eyes weren't trained to find anyone who was skilled in fooling others but she had something that would help her... Touching the amulet briefly she willed its magic to take effect. A large form shimmered into being before her: A large monstrous scorpion!

Round 2:
  [Move] to N25
  [Free]
  [Standard] Activate Amber Amulet of Vermin.

Status:
  Initiative: 04
  AC (Touch AC): 20 (12)

  Damage Taken:   0
  Damage Dealt:   0

Effects:
 - Shield, 4 mins
 - Fist of Stone, 08rds.

Final Position: N25

A large monstrous scorpion! [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/mons...onstrousScorpion.htm]

Scorpio appears in: N/O 22/23

moves to L 25/26 [Squeezing: -4AC, -4 attack]
Attack: 15 - miss.
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 409 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 11:18
  • msg #11

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

OOC: I know I stated to take my readied action at first sight of Nalia, but I count the vermin as a manifestation of my opponent, and therefore trigger the readied action.

As the large scorpion squeezes its way through the narrow passage Quinlan unleashes the prepared spell, sending a red hot bolt towards the approaching danger. Easily dodging the clumsy attacks, the nimble half-drow plunges his rapier deep into the scorpion before back-flipping out of reach and out of sight.

Round 3:

Readied action: fire Kelgore's fire bolt, 15 damage, reflex save DC13 for half damage.

  [Free]
  [Move]Tumble (22) to H25 after attacking, hide (20)
  [Standard] attack: rapier (20), damage 8

Status:
  Initiative: 9
  AC (Touch AC): 21 (15)

  Damage Taken: 0
  Damage Dealt: Scorpion: 23

Effects:
+10 Move silently 1 hr
+2 Natural AC, 40 mins

Final position: H25, hidden (20)
This message was last edited by the player at 12:51, Thu 29 Apr 2010.
Nalia
player, 26 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 12:41
  • msg #12

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

ooc: Scorpio fails save and takes full damage... *sighs* bloody dice roller...

Perhaps you want to restate your action, you can draw a weapon as a free action but only when you move, otherwise it is a move action. You state you move AFTER attacking, thus you can draw the axe as a move-action. You either move first and draw the axe, or you attack and then move, drawing the axe. And if you take a move action, you don't get a full attack. Besides: On a full-attack you can only make a 5ft-step, not move your speed. If you move your speed and attempt to move silently/hide you get a -5 penalty on the skill check.

So I guess you only get one attack this round either way.
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 410 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 12:49
  • msg #13

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Yes, I did think my list of actions got awfully long... fixed delt damages etc.
Nalia
player, 27 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 13:13
  • msg #14

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Nalia bend around the corner to see her helper seriously burnt. Biting her lip she knew the fight would be over if she had to go against Quinlan alone. Quickly shuffling close the girl activated the healing belt she wore and closed a few of the wounds the scorpio had sustained. Mindlessly the summoned vermin pressed on after his oponent, eventually being able to stretch to its usual size. Its ill-timed attack missed the half-breed by a mile though.

Round 3:
  [Move] to L24
  [Free]
  [Standard] Activate Healing belt (1 ch.) for scorpio - heals 6pts.

Status:
  Initiative: 04
  AC (Touch AC): 20 (12)

  Damage Taken:   0
  Damage Dealt:   0

Effects:
 - Shield, 4 mins
 - Fist of Stone, 07rds.

Final Position: L24

Large monstrous scorpion [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/mons...onstrousScorpion.htm]

Moves: to F/G 25/26 [Unsqueezed]
Std.A. Attack: 7 - miss.

Damage taken: 23-6= -17pts.
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 411 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 14:27
  • msg #15

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

As the scorpion scratches its way out of the narrow passage Quinlan jabs at it, knicking it slightly. Decidingly not wanting to face the monster in the open, Quinlan rolls under its claws into the relative safety of the entrance to the keep, finally landing a few feet from Nalia. Barely pausing, Quinlan once more calls upon his newly found arcane powers and sends forth a coruscating ray of light.

Round 4:

AoO: 16, damage 3

  [Free]
  [Move]Tumble (26) to L26 using two charges of acrobat boots for 20' extra movement
  [Standard] Ray of enfeeblement (12), hit, 5 STR reduction, 5 min

Status:
  Initiative: 9
  AC (Touch AC): 21 (15)

  Damage Taken: 0
  Damage Dealt: Scorpion: 20 (26)

Effects:
+10 Move silently 1 hr
+2 Natural AC, 40 mins

Final position: L26
Nalia
player, 28 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 15:02
  • msg #16

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Nalia felt the magic of the ray draining her strength, thanks to the Fates she had decided to improve her strength with her own magic.

The scorpion mindlessly took the jab from Quinlan and relentlessly followed the half-drow back into the narrow pathway. At the same time Nalia saw her oponent showing up in the corner. Quickly she moved forth, pinning him together with her monstrous pet. The scorpio tried to snap at him once again but failed to connect. At the same moment the girl grabbed something from her belt and snapped her fingers, her fist exploded into flame and she jabbed at the white-haired elf. Her finger barely touched him but the flames left her hand and spread over her oponent, engulfing him from head to toe in searing hot flames.

Round 4:
  [Move] to L25
  [Free] Cast defensively DC17 - 17, success. No AoO.
  [Standard] Cast combust spell, touch attack 14+2 flanking=16, hit - 33pts damage. No save. Refl. save DC15 or catch on fire.

Status:
  Initiative: 04
  AC (Touch AC): 20 (12)

  Damage Taken:   0 / -5pts Strength penalty
  Damage Dealt:   33

Effects:
 - Shield, 4 mins
 - Fist of Stone, 06rds.
 - Strength -5, 5mins

Final Position: L24

Large monstrous scorpion [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/mons...onstrousScorpion.htm]

Moves: to I/K/26 [squeezed]
Std.A. Attack: 16 - miss.

Damage taken: 23-6= -20pts.
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 412 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 15:15
  • msg #17

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

I'm out cold... or hot. That was some serious damage!
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 413 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 17:14
  • msg #19

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

OOC: Actually I don't think you can add the flanking bonus as we are positioned, you need to be on opposite sides. That would thus not be a hit, and I live to fight another round.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:06, Thu 29 Apr 2010.
Nalia
player, 30 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 19:09
  • msg #20

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

It was too good to be true, once to have the dice roller on my side...

Go ahead, make your move.
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 414 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Thu 29 Apr 2010
at 19:35
  • msg #21

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

I feel your pain... need to think about the next move though.
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 415 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 06:58
  • msg #22

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Narrowly avoiding the powerful spell, Quinlan decides to try and change the playing field. Taking a deep breath he throws himself at Nalia, mindless of him letting his guard down.

Round 5:

  [Free]This one is for Lady Luck!
  [Move]  Yes, see below. Outcome depends on your actions.
  [Standard] Overrun check 15, provokes AoO from you and the Vermin, you may choose to either avoid Quinlan, or block making an opposed STR or DEX check. If you fail the check you are knocked prone, if you succeed you may try and knock me down with a STR check (see details below). Fist of stone bonus is not applicable.
quote:
Overrun
You can attempt an overrun as a standard action taken during your move. (In general, you cannot take a standard action during a move; this is an exception.) With an overrun, you attempt to plow past or over your opponent (and move through his square) as you move. You can only overrun an opponent who is one size category larger than you, the same size, or smaller. You can make only one overrun attempt per round.

If you’re attempting to overrun an opponent, follow these steps.

Step 1
Attack of Opportunity. Since you begin the overrun by moving into the defender’s space, you provoke an attack of opportunity from the defender.

Step 2
Opponent Avoids? The defender has the option to simply avoid you. If he avoids you, he doesn’t suffer any ill effect and you may keep moving (You can always move through a square occupied by someone who lets you by.) The overrun attempt doesn’t count against your actions this round (except for any movement required to enter the opponent’s square). If your opponent doesn’t avoid you, move to Step 3.

Step 3
Opponent Blocks? If your opponent blocks you, make a Strength check opposed by the defender’s Dexterity or Strength check (whichever ability score has the higher modifier). A combatant gets a +4 bonus on the check for every size category he is larger than Medium or a -4 penalty for every size category he is smaller than Medium. The defender gets a +4 bonus on his check if he has more than two legs or is otherwise more stable than a normal humanoid. If you win, you knock the defender prone. If you lose, the defender may immediately react and make a Strength check opposed by your Dexterity or Strength check (including the size modifiers noted above, but no other modifiers) to try to knock you prone.

Step 4
Consequences. If you succeed in knocking your opponent prone, you can continue your movement as normal. If you fail and are knocked prone in turn, you have to move 5 feet back the way you came and fall prone, ending your movement there. If you fail but are not knocked prone, you have to move 5 feet back the way you came, ending your movement there. If that square is occupied, you fall prone in that square.


Status:
  Initiative: 9
  AC (Touch AC): 21 (15)

  Damage Taken: 0
  Damage Dealt: Scorpion: 20 (26)

Effects:
+10 Move silently 1 hr
+2 Natural AC, 40 mins

Final position: TBD
Nalia
player, 31 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 08:08
  • msg #23

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Nalia watched the weasly half-breed escaping her touch, refusing to grant her victory. However, the spell had not been discharged and she readied herself for another attack. Surprisingly the opportunity for that attack came sooner than she thought. Quinlan attempted to bully his way out of the corner they had pinned him into, the monstrous scorpio lashed out with his huge pincer and caught him on his way ...

Ok, Nalia will not resist the overrun, her strength is too low for that. However, the scorpio attempts to grapple Quinlan (he has improved grab).

Scorpio:
Touch attack to start grapple 20. Hit.
Grapple check: 24, beat it or be grappled.

If you are grappled Nalia will deliver the touch attack of her combust spell as she didn't discharge it last round.

Attack: 11. That's a hit if you are grappled since you lose your dex bonus in a grapple check, Quin's touch AC ought to be 10. I'm assuming you get +5 from Dex.

If you are not grappled the touch attack misses.
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 416 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 08:40
  • msg #24

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Hm. The way I understood the improved grab ability is that the scorpion makes an ordinary melee attack (against normal AC) and then can grab "for free" should the attack connect. It specifically says that no initial touch attack is necessary. That means that if scorpio instead attempts to grab, Quinlan get's an AoO against him as per the normal grapple rules.
If the scorpion uses his improved grab ability the attack misses and my overrun attempt continues, if he attempts a touch attack Quinlan gets to do his AoO. What say you?
Nalia
player, 32 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 08:51
  • msg #25

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

ooc: I would agree, but I remember there is a rule that if you use an AoO provoking attack as an AoO the other doesn't get an AoO. Some rule to break endless lines of AoOs. But I don't remember where I found it, either the DML or the Sage Advice on wotc.com

*sighs* I will have to dig that out... Couldn't you have had a touch AC of 14? That would have made it easier :P Blasted Dex 20...
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 417 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 10:33
  • msg #26

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Actually I just read in the Rules of the game on WoTC that a string of AoO's is definitely allowed.
Nalia
player, 33 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 12:20
  • msg #27

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

ooc: Great. Then you just move where you wanted and take the action you wanted. :)

Errm... On a different note, I just realized something, in our mutual Thay-region, your character has a touch AC of 14 (at least that's what your bio-lines say). How come you have a touch AC of 15 here, I thought it was meant to be equal with the region?
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 418 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 12:35
  • msg #28

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

I must be cross-eyed or something! FF is 15, touch is 14... talk about much ado for nothing...
Nalia
player, 34 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 12:42
  • msg #29

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

You know, I have suffered the same lately. I'm often sooo tired it gets difficult to get numbers right and such. So no worries, nobody is perfect :)
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 419 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 12:55
  • msg #30

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Anyway, overrun is fun and an often overlooked option.
Nalia
player, 35 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 13:36
  • msg #31

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

I agree, yet you need a reasonable chance of success, how many PCs can attempt an overrun and what advantages does it bring? In this situation it is the only option you have left, otherwise Nalia would have gotten another attempt at touching Quin, since you can hold a charge indefinetly (or until touching the target), also the scorpio would have delivered 3 attacks, even with low chance of success it is the number that makes it dangerous.

Thing is, Quinlan is near immune to Nalia's distance weapon: Kelgore's Fire Bolt. With evasion and a +10 mod to saves she has no hope of successfully hitting him, all she can hope for is cornering and touching him... setting him alight ;) Her concept is softening up the oponent at range then slicing into him when he's close, or using combust if it is a particularely tough guy (like the BBEG). Only after the next level up she gets area spells (I'm going for burning hands and fireball) to help cutting down more lower level oponents. With sculpt spell it is going to give her some very interesting options.
Quinlan Fairfellow
player, 420 posts
Half-Drow Rogue/Ranger/DB
Lvl 6 (3/2/1). W:4 L:5
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 14:43
  • msg #32

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Quinlan is a whimp and sadly underpowered for his level, like Gurgun. Having some spells does make him mildly useful though.
Nalia
player, 36 posts
Human Sorceress
ECL 4 - 1 wins 0 losses
Fri 30 Apr 2010
at 15:22
  • msg #33

Re: Quinlan Fairfellow vs. Nalia

Yes, spells are always useful and in a campaign you need more than a single spell to blast a foe to be useful. Your tumble skill and sneak abilities are excellent in a dungeon crawl or city adventure. They are never depleted like spells. Nalia knows a few things about spells and may intimidate a few people but that's about it. She's little use outside of combat. But of course that is only my point of view :) I guess that is why I wanted to play Cat so bad, respectively started Mordaenwen, they can do things outside combat :D
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