Traffic, D&D
Dec. 2nd, 2003 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyTraffic this morning was bad. I tried taking a different route through Manchester - through Reddish, to avoid the turning onto the A57 (?) - but found it took a lot longer on account of all the people turning left onto the A57 (to go into Manchester). Won't be doing that again...
Last night's D&D was a lot of fun, and mostly one big combat. Trap rules are interesting. You get XP if you spot the trap, if you disarm the trap or if you survive being hit by the trap. In theory this means one person - your rogue - should get all the XP from them, if he's doing his job properly, because he should be moving ahead and disarming them all. Our rogue is not really geared up for traps, though, which is fair enough, if unfortunate in this particular situation. There were something like five or six CR5 traps in all, so he should have gone up about six levels... of course he only actually disarmed one, spotted a couple and stepped back for everybody else to take the damage, and survived one other. I'm not sure how the trap rules interact with finding somebody who works in the building and asking them to switch the traps off - I didn't see the traps, I didn't get caught in them (except one fireball), I didn't disarm them, but I did theoretically get rid of the trap (which would apparently have gone off again despite already attacking us). I'm not fishing for more XP, just interested...
Woodrun (me) is now quite good with a bow. At the start of the session I was rolling at +10 to hit with the bow (+5 base, +4 dex, +1 Size bonus); I could drop this by two and fire two arrows in a turn using the Rapid Shot feat. Then I levelled. Suddenly I get an extra attack per round (+6/+1 base attack) and have a +4 bonus against humans (favoured enemy - we're in a human city so that's pretty much all I've been fighting, so it seemed to make sense. Also humans are stupid, living in houses, should be free in the wilderness like proper people, grrrr). So, if I'm shooting at a human less than 30 feet away (+1 Point Blank Shot) and our Bard is singing at the time (likely), I fire three arrows at +15/+15/+10.
That's just stupid.
Still, my aim is to get a base attack of +11 and a dex of 19 so that I can buy Improved Precise Shot, and have no penalties at all from firing into melee. Should be possible by 12th level ... if we get that far.
I thought we hadn't slept since the last time we levelled, but remember sleeping now (in the marketplace). On reflection I think I just forgot to memorise my single 1st-level Ranger spell. Curses. None of them would have been particularly useful but it's annoying to not get the benefit, if you see what I mean. ... Actually, Magic Fang would have been great to cast on Lammo (our Monk), assuming it's actually in the rulebook.
Last night's D&D was a lot of fun, and mostly one big combat. Trap rules are interesting. You get XP if you spot the trap, if you disarm the trap or if you survive being hit by the trap. In theory this means one person - your rogue - should get all the XP from them, if he's doing his job properly, because he should be moving ahead and disarming them all. Our rogue is not really geared up for traps, though, which is fair enough, if unfortunate in this particular situation. There were something like five or six CR5 traps in all, so he should have gone up about six levels... of course he only actually disarmed one, spotted a couple and stepped back for everybody else to take the damage, and survived one other. I'm not sure how the trap rules interact with finding somebody who works in the building and asking them to switch the traps off - I didn't see the traps, I didn't get caught in them (except one fireball), I didn't disarm them, but I did theoretically get rid of the trap (which would apparently have gone off again despite already attacking us). I'm not fishing for more XP, just interested...
Woodrun (me) is now quite good with a bow. At the start of the session I was rolling at +10 to hit with the bow (+5 base, +4 dex, +1 Size bonus); I could drop this by two and fire two arrows in a turn using the Rapid Shot feat. Then I levelled. Suddenly I get an extra attack per round (+6/+1 base attack) and have a +4 bonus against humans (favoured enemy - we're in a human city so that's pretty much all I've been fighting, so it seemed to make sense. Also humans are stupid, living in houses, should be free in the wilderness like proper people, grrrr). So, if I'm shooting at a human less than 30 feet away (+1 Point Blank Shot) and our Bard is singing at the time (likely), I fire three arrows at +15/+15/+10.
That's just stupid.
Still, my aim is to get a base attack of +11 and a dex of 19 so that I can buy Improved Precise Shot, and have no penalties at all from firing into melee. Should be possible by 12th level ... if we get that far.
I thought we hadn't slept since the last time we levelled, but remember sleeping now (in the marketplace). On reflection I think I just forgot to memorise my single 1st-level Ranger spell. Curses. None of them would have been particularly useful but it's annoying to not get the benefit, if you see what I mean. ... Actually, Magic Fang would have been great to cast on Lammo (our Monk), assuming it's actually in the rulebook.
Re: Rogues and Traps
Date: 2003-12-03 12:07 pm (UTC)Trapping the doors was a bit mad though ... barricading them, fine, but if you were planning for a siege you'd build in manually operated death traps rather than the automatic variety. A hole through which you drop rocks is better than a mechanism that causes rocks to fall on account of being reloadable.