Comments on: Multiple choice question #56

By: MM

MM — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:03:36 +0000

I cast Fireball! (Please don’t fumble, please don’t fumble. . .)

By: jrau

jrau — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:00:25 +0000

OK, let’s see where we are here:
PCG, you draw your sword and attack the Evil Mastermind. With one well-placed blow you cleave his skull. He takes 12 points of damage and is stunned for 2 rounds.
Ron, you use your Charm Animal skill on the Rancor successfully. It agrees to become your familiar.
Brian, your throw your thermal detonator at the nearest minion. It kills the minion, but KDC and Jay’s Liger are caught in the blast radius. KDC takes 3 points of damage and the Liger is thrown into a Berzerker Frenzy!!!
Jay, make a Saving Throw vs. Liger to regain control of your mount before it picks a fight with Ron’s Rancor!

By: jay

jay — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 22:21:48 +0000

At this moment I am thankful that I returned to the Evil Mastermind riding my Liger, which of course was bread for its skills and magic. They don’t stand a chance.

By: jrau

jrau — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:54:46 +0000

“Because he’s holding a thermal detonator!!!” Classic.
See, if all criminal scum were as clever as our thermal-detonator-wielding friend Brian, the casualty rate among hired minions would be dramatically lower.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:07:25 +0000

Did I make it into the room with a thermal detonator?

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:36:50 +0000

If you deliver an artifact/kidnapped person/whatever to the Evil Mastermind before getting paid, then I’m sorry to say that the Rancor pit is exactly what you deserve.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:58:19 +0000

I’m a +14 for Beast Mastery. Can I charm the Rancor?

By: jrau

jrau — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:39:31 +0000

KDC: no hidden commentary about work or anything else intended by my post. I just happen to really appreciate the scene, present in about 34% of all action/adventure movies, in which the minion demands his promised reward from the Evil Mastermind and gets a knife in the back (or worse) instead. You’d think that a lifetime spent as a villain would train these guys to be more suspicious.
In other words, this post is exactly as shallow as it seems.

By: jrau

jrau — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:34:04 +0000

Peter: OK, the Evil Mastermind rolls a 12. So you get to act before he does.
The Rancor rolls a 19.

By: KDC

KDC — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:09:03 +0000

I don’t get it. I mean, I get it, but I don’t get it – was work bad this week?