Wait, did one of the attacks miss? According to the last post AC is 19 and the total of my lowest attack roll is 19... Or am I misunderstanding the rules?

If I am, I'll go with a flexible.

Actually you are right. Rule above. But I was pretty sure I was right. One point for false memory.

Any trouble?

No. Didn't realize it was my turn. >.<

Sorry about that.

Welker is not currently engaged, so if you want to attack you need to use a move action to engage first. And to where Grogash is moving?

Rule for readying an action below. Just because why not.

Readying an Action

The ready action lets you prepare to take an action later, after your turn is over but before your next one has begun. Readying is a standard action.

You can ready a standard action, a move action, or a free action. To do so, specify the action you will take and the conditions under which you will take it. Then, any time before your next action, you may take the readied action in response to that condition. The action occurs just before the action that triggers it. If the triggered action is part of another character's activities, you interrupt the other character. Assuming he is still capable of doing so, he continues his actions once you complete your readied action. Your initiative result changes. For the rest of the encounter, your initiative result is the count on which you took the readied action, and you act immediately ahead of the character whose action triggered your readied action.

Your initiative result becomes the count on which you took the readied action. If you come to your next action and have not yet performed your readied action, you don't get to take the readied action (though you can ready the same action again). If you take your readied action in the next round, before your regular turn comes up, your initiative count rises to that new point in the order of battle, and you do not get your regular action that round.

Alright, so I'll have Welker engage for now, which will put him at risk. Since I have no other actions with him end his turn.

And Grogash is attempting to join Wic and John's position.

Ok.



Ogre's attack:


NPC's attack:

You never heard he call himself John. You heard he call himself Ludwig, but we can just pass over this fact if you want.

Yeah, I'll edit the post still, but I've got a feeling this may not be the only time I'll make this mistake... Something in the sky... Hmmm.

No problem at all.

Now a comment about this encounter. I used it to test a lot of things simultaneously. I hope it was not too chaotic.

Points tested:

- Combat rules: I found them really great. I thought that keeping track of characters would be troublesome, but I was dead wrong. Really liked the escalation dice.

- Mooks: Interesting enough, better than 4ed minions as it isn't needed a specific class to deal with them. Fun to describe the killings too. The goblin boss was my invention, a mook character that it is actually mookless, drawing his life from any mook. He really brings an extra flavor to combat. If I use this again, I will make it more different than standard units.

- Level difference: I used creatures of different levels 1 and 3 to test how they would perform against level two characters.

- A large creature: Menacing enough. I doubled its normal life to make it more menacing, which brings me to the next point.

- Scripted battle: Worked more or less as predicted. But I was not sure about how I could pull this right. I changed it from my initial intention and it worked.

Any suggestion to make?

Personally, not sure what I can add to how you handled it, other than had fun with it. The battle could have easily been a loss if the battle with the ogre continued and as a player I couldn't tell the goblin boss was a reflavored group of mooks. But the element that death can come from fighting things to the bitter end makes things to where a retreat can feel like a necessary option.

Also, not sure how I can add to your change from script without knowing more. Was it supposed to last a number of more rounds before the ogre or something else?

I started with the idea to make two separate battles at the beginning: players vs goblins, NPCs vs ogre, but it wouldn't feel natural. So I decided to add more goblins and make the ogre appear later at 4th turn and stay until the triggered event at start of 7th turn, but the goblins died too fast and I had to start the ogre part of the encounter sooner, but I didn't see any reason to extend the encounter more.

I'll admit it would feel real weird to see another battle going on and not having at least an option to do anything about it, even with goblins attacking. So I do agree with your change there. And the ogre battle was going to go on until the 7th round if it went as planned? I feel asking about that would be asking about DM only information.

So not to risk spoiling the story, I'll get on with the game for now.

In this case it all depends on what you want for your background, but I certainly see this as a real possibility. You can always make a side story of your past, showing many times when strength was needed for your profession as a mercenary enforcer. Then it can be applied.

Am I correct in assuming the Dragon Empire is run by the Emporess or is this detail changed? I do remember you changing some details of the setting.

Nothing changed. I still remember them, but I will slowly develop the Dragon Empire and other features more and more. This adventure will determine the full setting I will use for the next one.

Small correction. I don't have time to post today.

Let's assume each player got a potion. Or do you want to discuss this IC?

Works for me. No reason to do it otherwise.