In reply to Strotdrik Sunshield (msg # 152):
Here is what I posted in the Draw thread LAST Thursday, April 11:
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DM Note:
If you start acting > drawing things from pouches or pockets, hurling vials and such or casting spells, you will need to roll initiative...and hope your foes either 1/ roll higher than you or 2/ do not already have arrows/bolts ready to fire.
This scenario would be easier to run if we were sitting around a table, but since we are not, I have to be fair to you and to the NPC's (the "goblins" in this case).
Make sense?
No reply from you.
Before any action, especially when you are facing foes, you have to roll initiative. I asked for that roll twice; heard nothing from you or Malachai. You said you were going to cast animate dead. That's what I had planned for you to do. Here is my message from Monday, April 15:
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So, I have initiative rolls of 6 for both Cos and Teodor.
Neither Malachai or Strotdrik have rolled yet.
I have Cos trying to do several things, Teodor casting a spell, Malachai holding his position, and Strotdrik casting a spell.
Anything else?
Again, no response from you. So, I rolled Initiative for the Goblins and Hobgoblins. My rule in these situations is if you do not roll Initiative for your character, then you automatically act at the end of the round. I'm not going to roll Initiative for players; especially not when I have NPC's to roll for.
You asked:
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how would we have not seen a group of 20+ goblins in the forest or heard them? Three of us have infrared vision so I would think at least one of us would spot them, especially with the scouts on in front specifically looking for ambush.
Good question. Thanks to Teodor's light stone, you didn't see them because it fucked up your infravision.
As for Cos and Mal, Mal heard them and came back to report to you. Goblins and Hobgoblins have infravision too. In fact, they probably see in the dark better than you guys. So they hid themselves as best they could and I rolled to see whether any of you spotted them. And you didn't. So, you were ambushed.
Even with all of this, your character is a tank. He never got hit by the barrage of arrows and bolts. So, I had him beginning his spell at the end of the round:
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Thinking they had weathered the hail of arrows pretty well, Strotdrik concentrates on casting a spell, now that the goblins and hobgoblins have revealed themselves.
But then the leader, who's initiative was 4, tossed a thunderstone near Strot and Teodor, thus, effectively ending the round for them.
