DrK's Age of Worms OOC pt7

[RCgothic]

Knew I should have cast Assay Spell Resistance first.

[redzimmer]

Spell penetration check (1d20+16)[21]

[Stegyre]

Hm, if the swallowed Merrick is able to transpose with Tal . . .

[RCgothic]

Maximised disintegration!

[redzimmer]

Hm, if the swallowed Merrick is able to transpose with Tal . . .

Depends. Can a swallowed creature do anything but cut their way out?

[RCgothic]

DM ruling required:

My armour is astral driftmetal:

Armor crafted from astral driftmetal is fully effective against incorporeal attacks, as if it were made of force.

Wraithstrike:

By presenting your weapon with an overly dramatic flourish and calling out with a sickly-sounding moan, you complete the spell. As you do so, your weapon becomes translucent almost to the point that you cannot see it, though it still weighs as heavily in your hand.

While this spell is in effect, your melee attacks are resolved as melee touch attacks rather than normal melee attacks.

Fluff-wise this sounds like it makes your weapon incorporeal (like a wraith) such that it bypasses regular armor. But RAW it is just a touch attack. Astral driftmetal is only effective against touch attacks if they're from an incorporeal source.

This is the difference between taking no damage and everything hitting. My AC is exactly equal to the lowest attack rolled, because unfortunately my shield feat doesn't work unless I'm next to Elkist and she's gone swooping. More party members should carry shields! Even bucklers count!

The amount of damage isn't a big deal. Plus I think I have something up my sleeve the dragon won't enjoy.

[Ghostfoot]

my shield feat doesn't work unless I'm next to Elkist and she's gone swooping. More party members should carry shields! Even bucklers count!

Ah sorry, I knew your shield feat was helpful shielding me, I didn't realize it also helped you if I was next to you. Note to future self: stay put.

AoO: vs #3 Lightning Sword (1d20+18)[36] (+12 base, +4 str, +2 weapon) damage (2d6+10)[19] (+8 str, +2 weapon) + shock (1d6)[3]

[RCgothic]

Ah sorry, I knew your shield feat was helpful shielding me, I didn't realize it also helped you if I was next to you. Note to future self: stay put.

AoO: vs #3 Lightning Sword [roll0] (+12 base, +4 str, +2 weapon) damage [roll1] (+8 str, +2 weapon) + shock [roll2]

Couple of different things at work.

Iron Guard's Glare: attacks against allies from threatened foes at -4. I'm large right now, so threaten a large area.

Shield Block: Immediate action confer shield bonus+4 to adjacent ally. (See also below)

Shield Wall: Mirriana gets +2 to shield bonus when fighting next to an ally also using a shield. This is synergistic with Shield Block. Also I've just realised there's possibly a permissive reading of this feat:

When you and an adjacent ally are each using a shield, your[pl] shield bonus to Armor Class increases by 2.

Emphasis mine. Might be a bit cheeky.

Plus although the shield wall feat does directly benefit me, as we're usually connected by shield other it also indirectly protects you.

[Ghostfoot]

I'll take it all!

I haven't done a lot of play at this high a level, but it seems unless one has an insanely high AC you basically get hit every time. So + ~10AC is fine by me.

[DrK]

@RCGothic as it’s not a force effect or an ethereal effect I think it just hits touch in a non specific way

The shield wall wouldn’t stack twice I don’t think, so an ally couldn’t get the shield wall boost for their shield and the shield block bonus

I’m just glad the dragons have managed to do something!

@ Redzimner
When swallowed it’s like your grappled so no somatic spells

[redzimmer]

So the class ability that Duplicates a spell I would do it somatic like a spell?

[RCgothic]

@RCGothic as it’s not a force effect or an ethereal effect I think it just hits touch in a non specific way

The shield wall wouldn’t stack twice I don’t think, so an ally couldn’t get the shield wall boost for their shield and the shield block bonus

I’m just glad the dragons have managed to do something!

@ Redzimner
When swallowed it’s like your grappled so no somatic spells

One of these days astral driftmetal armour will be useful! Oh well, I've got two other ways to completely counter what the dragon just did. I think I'll go for the most ironic.


As for shields, let's see if I have this straight:

When next to an ally using a shield, shield wall feat covers Mirriana +2 to shield bonus, and the ally +2 to shield bonus.

If I use shield block for an ally not using a shield, that ally gets (shield bonus +2) +4. The effective total bonus is shield bonus +6.

If that ally is using a shield and already getting the +2 bonus for being Mirriana adjacent, then shield block confers (shield bonus +4) because the +2 from shield wall would be from the same source and so doesn't stack twice. The effective total bonus would be shield bonus +6.

[RCgothic]

Ring of spell battle to steal the wraithstrike.

No damage because my armour is strong enough without the touch bypass.

I'd also miscalculated my AC because I thought I was large - cast Divine Power not Righteous Might! So I would have still blocked two of the attacks without the ring, but this is funnier. They're not particularly powerful casters and I've got a lot of dispels prepared if necessary.

[Stegyre]

I've got to do some math to figure out where Tal is in relation to the remaining dragons:

0-point is 50' across our 100' bridge, where I think Mirriana is still standing. Original (now-dead) Dragon #1 was 80' from there, consisting of 30' swampland +50' of bridge, so Tal has ~80' to cover, at least half of which (50') is difficult terrain (and probably swamp is difficult, too).

Hm, well, this is awkward. I can only move, at most, 60' this turn, and using all available tricks (switching stances and using morphic reach), my reach is "only" 15', so I'm just barely out of reach of either remaining dragon. (For now, at least, I'm ignoring the Pythagorean theorem, which makes the dragons slightly further than that.)

EDIT: Okay, wait. I have a charge I can do. It's less than my best attack, but a little something, and it's a trick saved specifically for flying opponents, so appropriate for the dragon that's swallowed Merrick. Just don't be disappointed with the meager damage.

[Starbin]

Sorry ... I suppose I could have burnt some one shots to get five shots, but some would have likely missed. Still, Lan probably did 100+ points of damage. We should have his attention!

[redzimmer]

At least I’ll only be taking Constriction damage.

[redzimmer]

Let's see if I could have succeeded a DC 24 Con check: (1d20)[2]

Yeah.

[Stegyre]

Let's see if I could have succeeded a DC 24 Con check: [roll0]

Yeah.

Wait. Is the message here that you don’t yet have a +22 concentration mod? I am appalled.

[redzimmer]

No one more disappointed than I.

[Starbin]

No one more disappointed than I.

Or less surprised ...

[DrK]

Just Elkist to go now

And the flying Drgaon is now dead! The savage charge from Talsien, the horrendous flurry of death from Lan and the flaming charge from Zarina have finsihed it off (helped that Tal got an additional +10 damage from Zarina's Leading the Charge stance)


For Elkist - there is only the dragon on the ground near the bridge beside mirriana currently alive

@ Redzimmer ; you can take a move action to climb out the dead throat as you like

[RCgothic]

It's funny how people still refer to Mirriana as Constable. Serious Odo vibes.

[DrK]

It's funny how people still refer to Mirriana as Constable. Serious Odo vibes.

She doesn't have a temple of her own (yet) to be high priestess or Abottess of (though the latter would be more sisters of battle vibe)

[redzimmer]

And yet Tal is the shifter. Curious.

[Ghostfoot]

Just Elkist to go now

And the flying Drgaon is now dead! The savage charge from Talsien, the horrendous flurry of death from Lan and the flaming charge from Zarina have finsihed it off (helped that Tal got an additional +10 damage from Zarina's Leading the Charge stance)


For Elkist - there is only the dragon on the ground near the bridge beside mirriana currently alive

@ Redzimmer ; you can take a move action to climb out the dead throat as you like

Roger that - will be on to it tonight when I get home.

[Ghostfoot]

rerolling damage (2d6+10)[16]

[RCgothic]

Appropos of nothing, could you describe the current game weather for me DrK?

[DrK]

Appropos of nothing, could you describe the current game weather for me DrK?

Cloudy and overcast with a light wind. So not bad, bit not great. Traditional slightly dreary swamp weather

[RCgothic]

Well it could have been worse for her. I might have summoned a hurricane.

But yeah, things not looking great for that dragon TBH.

[redzimmer]

And then Illthane's mate appears...

"MY BABIES!!"