Lathander has two favoured weapons: the light and heavy maces. Your attack hits the owlbear, Allessandra.

[Private to Slove: Iodaem posted the video clip. I was just making a joke on a similar topic.]

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[Private to DM BadCatMan: Are sorry, my PM was light hearted to - just did not wish offend anybody but thought you see funny side what you posted in light of the video clip.]

Okay, I sped forward a bit, assuming you'd do the same thing to the next door (seeing as the last one was a non-event) and take up the same formation. So, fight!

I'm going to assume that the double weapon ranges feature of this plane applies to the Point Blank Shot feat as well. So it will work in 60ft range. Slove is even more powerful now.

Don't forget the effects of light gravity (-2 attack), and the need for Balance checks in this encounter, which LG penalizes.

Most of you are already too high level for this adventure already, so I have to enforce these things. ;)

Well my last level really made slove into good character.

If the adventure is to low for us you may want add 1-2 more creatures in per combat to make more closer to our level or add 1HD to some creature.
Just a suggestion.

Of course, Slove's arrows won't work well against neither Skeletons or Zombies, so for this encounter, it looks like it's the rest of us who'll have to go to work on them.  ;-)

Gurgun, you can handle the walking piles of bones, right?  Swords are much better against zombies, after all.  :p

Nah, adding stuff requires effort. I wouldn't be running a prepackaged adventure if I wanted more work. :) Besides, some of creatures later are much harder...

You've got a good mix here, bludgeoning for the skellies, slashing for the zombies.

Ooh, a glowing green sword. Neato!

By the way, since I forgot to mention it, the hobgoblin zombies are equipped with longswords, light shields and studded leather armour, so they have higher ACs than normal. The skeletons are naked, except for the two with longbows.

Yeah, the walking corpse has your name written all over him! ;-)

Lousy zombies - comes with armors and shields, and with glowing green swords that aren't the type I've got Weapon Focus in, anyway.  :p

No problem.  About what I'd expected, which is why I didn't roll it myself.  It never hurts to ask though. :-)

Sorry, I was waiting until it was close to my turn in order, but then I accidentally missed it.  Are the zombie archers also destroyed?  If not, I'll MM them since they don't have full cover, if I read that correctly, before focusing on things that everybody else can be working on.

All the skeleton archers have been destroyed. Only the 2 zombie warriors remain.

Okie dokie, thanks.  I might do something different then.  I need to go look at my spells...

Two battles in a week, you are doing well. :)

Okay, I'm trying out a new way of keeping track of treasure. I'll list everything in the new Treasure & Loot thread.

If ever you decide you want something, and no one else does, then I'll mark down that the item is claimed and who took it. The rest is still available for somebody else.

I'll assume obviously good stuff is collected by one of you, even if no one claims it, so whoever does want it can claim it later. But stuff that you wouldn't really bother collecting, like basic weapons and armour, will be assumed to have been left behind, and may become unavailable if its no longer practical to go back and get it. Like if you suddenly desire a gnollish battleaxe, then it's too late now.

Basic treasures, like coins, gems and jewelery I'll tally up separately, and divided amongst you evenly at the end.

I'll go over the old gnoll battle more carefully later, but let me know if there's anything I missed that had taken, or argue that you would have taken it. :)

Icky. This adventure probably should have come with some kind of warning. D:

Icky?  That's all you can come up with?  :p  Oh my goodness!  My worst nightmares aren't that bad!  Oh my...  *goes to climb into bed with Iodaem to keep nightmares away*

Sorry, I used up all my more expressive words in the post itself: horror, ghastly, nightmare, etc. I mean, I used 'horror' four times. I need a bigger mental thesaurus, obviously.

It could have been worse.  But I'd really rather not think of how.  :p

*giggles*  I googled for you, BCM.  Try dictionary.com.  :p

Huh, no one prepared Grease. :(

Can you can still attack the thing? I can't see any kind of problem where you accidentally strike the wrong person, like with Bull Rush. I must be missing something? Any references?

It's got a lot of hitpoints, and a lot of HD, and high strength. Damage alone probably won't be enough. Try to weaken it, and buff whoever wants to grapple it.

Some ideas from the "All About Grappling" series:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20050308a

This one may be what you want:

"Break Another's Hold: This works just like breaking another's pin, except that you use it against a foe that merely has a hold on another character. If you win the opposed check, you free the character you're helping."
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these are the other options.

Joining an Existing Grapple: When your chosen foe is already grappling, you can use a melee attack to grab him and establish a hold just as described in Part One, except that the target doesn't get an attack of opportunity against you, and your grab automatically succeeds. You still have to make a successful opposed grapple check to become part of the grapple.

If multiple opponents are involved in the grapple, you pick one to make the opposed grapple check against. In this case, you don't have to randomly determine which foe your grab attack strikes (see Part One). If that seems overly generous to you, you can require a full-round action to choose your target. As part of that action, you make the grab and the ensuing opposed grapple check to try and establish a hold.

Ganging Up in a Grapple: Up to four combatants can grapple a single opponent in a given round. Creatures that are one or more size categories smaller than you count for half, creatures that are one size category larger than you count double, and creatures two or more size categories larger count quadruple. For example, eight halflings (size Small) can grapple one human (size Medium).

There is little point in others than me joining the grapple. I'll pin the damn thing then you can all poke it 'til it stops jiggling. Anyone have enlarge self memorized?

No, but im about to drop a bull's strength on you. get in position.

I don't like to bother with maps for simple single monster battles like this. You are all in position, as you need to be.