
By the same author as Grand Line 3.5
8th Jun 2016, 1:17 AM"Grapple Stories"
Speaknig of Grappling, I'm reminded of a moment from the finale of a 5e campaign I recently finished running. The group was assaulting the villain's floating castle, and the rogue bet the cleric (who had various strength increasing items) that he couldn't suplex the castle out of the sky. Now, I was going to veto this, but the group made the argument that since I established that the castle was being suspended using a large number of air elementals, they should be able to roll an opposing strength check. Long story short, the cleric somehow managed to both roll well enough and accrue enough bonuses to reach somewhere around a +50 to his str (athletics) roll, while the elementals rolled a crit fumble. The damage caused to the castle essentially let them skip straight to the final boss and completely destroyed the large scale battle happening below. |
8th Jun 2016, 8:52 AM
Gonna be honest, in the face of such animesque ridiculousness I would not begrudge the sequence breaking too much. |
8th Jun 2016, 3:56 PM
Indeed, and if Truomae handled it well, then that is how one gains a reputation for being a great GM. :) |
8th Jun 2016, 6:11 PM
I more mentioned the sequence breaking as an example of how major the effects were. The character that did it was essentially deified in the epilogue for the various crazy awesome things he had done during the final battle. There's more from that guy, but that's for another time. |
8th Jun 2016, 1:23 PM
In my 5e campaign, we had a little time left before calling it quits so I rolled some random encounters for the party on the way back home from the dungeon. Since they'd just driven off a dragon (in one round) the barbarian was feeling pretty cocky and decided to take on all the enemies alone. |
8th Jun 2016, 2:49 PM"'taur cheese"
Talked about this over on FiD, but I don't think I mentioned it here yet. |
8th Jun 2016, 5:18 PM
If you can beat a gold dragon in a grapple, I feel the GM is doing something wrong. Even if it's a power game, their standard bonuses should still be enough. Taking into account that they can spontaneously cast cleric spells... |
9th Jun 2016, 8:17 AM
One I had a player playing a dwarf grappling and Orc for 10+ turns because the dwarf could not injure the Orc and the Orc kept missing. The grapple duel went on until the party fighter walked over and put a spear in the Orc's back |
9th Jun 2016, 3:59 PM
Straight question: How the hell did that happen in a 5e campaign? That's actually absurd. |
8th Jun 2016, 10:48 AM"Attacks of Opportunity"
Sorry, but when I saw Cory talk about making an attack of opportunity, you reminded me so much of something incorrect that a) real-life players of 3.5 can be guilty of, b) Campaign Comics before this one are guilty of, and c) characters in this comic are guilty of. |
8th Jun 2016, 11:18 AM
Well, the feat "Hold the Line" isn't particularly obscure, being in Complete Warrior, and it allows one to make an attack of opportunity against any opponent that charges into your threatened area. I wouldn't be too surprised if Cory has a decent bit of reach as well somehow, despite his Two-Weapon-Fighting style. It seems more likely, though, that he's asking for the purposes of his Robilar's Gambit feat, which we know he has - if the sea cow, as an exceptionally sizable creature, has enough reach to attack Cory from outside his threatened area, Cory wouldn't be able to return fire. |
8th Jun 2016, 11:45 AM"Or not"
Well, crap. I could have sworn he used Robilar's during the Mihawk arc, but it seems it was Gin who had the feat. Never mind that then. |
8th Jun 2016, 4:01 PM
Reminds me how little motivation I have for trying to wrap my head around those Attack of Opportunity rules. ;) Not like I need them; I am not currently playing nor am I likely to play a game using them anytime soon. It mostly just comes up for the comics. XD |
8th Jun 2016, 5:59 PM
This forgets such things as the Golden Legionarre prestige in pathfinder and the feat in 5th edition for halberd users that lets them do exactly that. |
11th Nov 2017, 7:12 PM
what they do seem legit to me. |
11th Nov 2017, 7:16 PM
also note that Luke and Cory are the only one to use their AOO this way. character with "normal" build don't |
8th Jun 2016, 11:53 AM
And now it make me think about the part of "Rocks fall everyone die" |
9th Jun 2016, 11:49 AM
Kinda off any topics right now for this page, but yolo. Is anyone that checks this comic out a lot interested in running a one piece campaign based on the d20 thats online for it on Roll20? Ive been wanting to play some d20 but not interested in any but OP atm, but I can't find anyone running one. |
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