Justis
2015-01-30, 09:01 PM
I think a couple of my friends and players scroll through these parts so if the code-phrase 'The Archmage's MAC-Tower in the sky' mean anything to you just stop reading guys.
So, my PCs are doing their usual song and dance [in the Bard's case literately] and I've got them running around doing the little dinky side-quests they chose when the rouge asked a solid question. If he 'beats' a trap that involves a crossbow then may he 'loot' the trap for said crossbow. I really didn't have an answer so I asked to put it off until I could find the relevant rules, didn't want to slow down a fairly fast segment of the games as the question was asked out of character.
To begin with I've looked up the rules for traps and they're odd but solid in their rule set and then I noticed CR calculator and began running numbers, as my current ruling is going to be that you get an appropriate number of trap parts which can be sold for the correct gold amount. However, the rouge is canny and often has he pulled some very off the wall stuff with his builds so I want to clear up a particular debate before it even starts.
Would you guys allow a canny rouge to pull a crossbow out of the wall? Because I can totally see the rouge in the group drooling over a non-magical crossbow that deals +4 damage on the shot, a thing that can happen with the trap rules.
So, my PCs are doing their usual song and dance [in the Bard's case literately] and I've got them running around doing the little dinky side-quests they chose when the rouge asked a solid question. If he 'beats' a trap that involves a crossbow then may he 'loot' the trap for said crossbow. I really didn't have an answer so I asked to put it off until I could find the relevant rules, didn't want to slow down a fairly fast segment of the games as the question was asked out of character.
To begin with I've looked up the rules for traps and they're odd but solid in their rule set and then I noticed CR calculator and began running numbers, as my current ruling is going to be that you get an appropriate number of trap parts which can be sold for the correct gold amount. However, the rouge is canny and often has he pulled some very off the wall stuff with his builds so I want to clear up a particular debate before it even starts.
Would you guys allow a canny rouge to pull a crossbow out of the wall? Because I can totally see the rouge in the group drooling over a non-magical crossbow that deals +4 damage on the shot, a thing that can happen with the trap rules.