Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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<Having walked through wetlands I can safely say IRL this would not work, however - there is nothing in the game that suggests it wouldn't and several points supoorting the proposition that it does. Therefore...>
The crew pulls a boat drawn by a pair of axebeaks moving easily over the marshes making the trip with incredible ease and speed. Moving at a fast pace, their attention to detail is slightly hampered, which plays right into the hands of the pair of trolls who wait to ambush travelers through the marsh foolish enough to stray away from the river.
Tabaqui, Marlyth and Safeguard see them start to move as they ready their attack. They act on round 1, the rest of the party can act on round 2. The trolls make no attempt to board the vesesel
Troll 1
Claw x Axebeak 1. 23 for 9 slashing damage.
Claw x Axbeak 2. 9 for 12 slashing damage.
Bite x 1st axebeak hit. 15 for 10 piercing damage.
Troll 2
Bite. x Weneon 16 for 10 piercing damage.
Claw. x Calner 15 for 9 slashing damage.
Claw. x Marlyth14 for 10 slashing damage.
Everyone: roll initiative/
Marlyth, Tabaqui, and Safeguard: post actions.
(sorry, had some brackets inverted)
Crit damage x Wen: 1
<LOL>
<I put everyone to level 9, but please finish leveling your PC. also, remember to give yourself a long rest - you just spent the night at an inn>
Marlyth: Initiative 5
Axe Beak: Initiative 7
Action: Attack: Quarterstaff: To Hit: 5 Damage: 2 (Rolled in gamelog)
Bonus Action: Shillelagh on Quarterstaff
Marlyth attempts to intercept the attack on the first Axe Beak by smashing the claw of the first Troll with her Quarterstaff, then she will enchant the weapon by casting Shillelagh on the wooden staff and dismount.
"Hold on, Pinocchio! We will beat these Trolls together, and offer their blood to the spirits of the nature."
InkedBee (Undead_Analyst)
Covetous, Dragonish Thoughts - Jenviel Tsumara: Fallen Aasimar- Monk|Crimson Sands of Time - Navarra Iltazyara: Human- Druid/Warlock| Bleak Prospect - Ermasnietsz: Reborn- Clockwork Soul Sorcerer
8 Wen's initiative
<I'm saying Marlyth 's natural explorer applies. That's why she's not surprised round 1. You guys can borrow the boat from the dwarf. Just try to bring it back to him. He's asking you to do the dangerous thing. He might just write it off if you come back without it.>
Troll initiatives: 15
<Axe beaks have pp 10. They're surprised in round 1.>
Angus Initiative 18
Tabaqui nocks an arrow into his shortbow and lets fly at the nearest troll.
Initiative 10
Shortbow Attack: 25 Damage: 7 + sneak attack due to Axe beak in melee: 16 damage
<Here's the initiative order so far. Waiting on Safeguard's action for round 1.>
initiative:
Weneon 20
Angus 14
Calner 13
Tabaqui 13
trolls 13
axebeaks 7
Marlyth 5
Safeguard ??
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Tabaqui's arrow pierces a troll right in the left eye. He screams a gutteral trilling sound as he grabs the feathered shaft and tears it from his skull, pulling the eye out with it as a trickle of mossy-hued viscous vitriol* trickles from the empty socket. dripping from the tip of the giants warty bulbous proboscis.
*Figurative - it's not literally acid
Weneon rushes to the one damaged by Tabaquis arrow and attacks trying to remove one threat as fast as possible
Attack: 15 Damage: 9
Attack: 10 Damage: 9
Bonus action flurry of blows
Attack: 22 Damage: 8
Attack: 9 Damage: 7
(Forgot halfling luck 9 + 7 for the natural one on attack)
Round 2
Angus will charge at the wounded troll, swinging his longsword in broad strokes.
First Longsword Attack: 15 Damage: 11
Second Longsword Attack: 14 Damage: 11
Round 2
Tabaqui will fire another arrow at the wounded troll (unless it's dead, then he will aim for the companion)
Shortbow Attack: 21 Damage: 6 + sneak attack due to Axe beak (and Weneon and Angus and Slaad) in melee: 12 damage
<We may have lost Safeguard. If not, he's welcome to rejoin anytime, but I'll be running the encounters as if there are 5 PCs until I hear otherwise. I havent heard anything; it's just inference.>
Angus' sword swipes at the injured troll (1), taking a chunk of one ear clear off is head.
Calner's summoned Slaad ... (they're probably within 15 ft, but on opposite sides of the sledge the axebeaks are hauling your stuff on. I'm guesssing the summons wont be in the boat, so we'll treat as if more than 15ft apart.) slashes at the troll thant attacked Calner (2). The troll uncertain what he's looking at is unable to block the first hit, but manages to defend against the second.
<What color Slaad? also, do you actually have this: platinum-inlaid vial worth at least 400 gp? This is actually a major effect here, so I'll be enforcing the requirement if necessary. I know we started at level 9, so don't worry about the how, just the cost.>
Tabaqui looses another arrow, devesating the surprisingly resilient troll who seems to have a small yellowish pebble now in the recently vacant eye socket from which he removed a previous arrow.
Troll 2
Bite. x Slaad 19 for 10 piercing damage.
Claw. x Slaad 9 for 9 slashing damage.
Claw. x Slaad 16 for 11 slashing damage.
(if the Slaad goes down, switch subsequent attacks to Calner)
Troll 1
Claw x Tabaqui. 14 for 9 slashing damage.
Claw x Tabqui. 12 for 9 slashing damage.
Bite x 1st Tabaqui. 13 for 10 piercing damage.
Axebeak 1 falls to the ground, axebeak 2 is freaking out, warbling like a distressed turkey as it flails its neck as he attempts to run, straining against the harness he wears but realizes the boat is too heavy with everyone still on it for him to pull by himself.
<Marlyth, why don't you go ahead and control the Axebeak. They're up, then you and if he shows up, Safeguard, then back to Wen at the top of the order.>
<<I literally just posted that; it's not even edited! How in the world does it have 'potentially manipulated die rolls'? >>
<All the attacks would hit the Slaad (if it's there - Looking at the char. sheet, I see 15gp.) and it would still be up either way, but is it a 4th or 5th level summoning? >
Marlyth and Axebeak (1) are up!
Tabaqui uses his uncanny dodge reaction to escape some of the damage, reducing it to 15 total.
(trying to visualize this... the troll that was wounded by Tabaqui had Weneon and Angus standing by it, while T fired a shortbow at range. To get to melee with T, wouldn't the troll have to take opportunity attacks from Weneon and Angus?)
Marlyth will remove the harness from the neck of the second Axe Beak 'Pistachio' in order to set him free and let him attack freely (preferably the second Troll), but she will not attempt to mount the vehicle.
Animal Handling 8 (rolled in gamelog)
Axe Beak
Beak: Attack: 16 Damage: 7
InkedBee (Undead_Analyst)
Covetous, Dragonish Thoughts - Jenviel Tsumara: Fallen Aasimar- Monk|Crimson Sands of Time - Navarra Iltazyara: Human- Druid/Warlock| Bleak Prospect - Ermasnietsz: Reborn- Clockwork Soul Sorcerer
(Rinse repeat attacking Troll1)
Attack: 19 Damage: 8
Attack: 11 Damage: 9
Bonus action flurry of blows
Attack: 12 Damage: 7
Attack: 18 Damage: 5
Plus 6 sneak attack
<I don't know. You're all on a a boat or potentially jumping off of it in waist deep water. Tje whole boat is pretty cramped as there are 5 or 6 of you. If I tried to put it on map I think it would look like a half carton of eggs. The most likely answer to your question is either a) Tabaquu was at DA for a ranged attack because the troll was within 5ft of him or b) the troll had cover because an ally was between the troll.amd Tabaqui. For pbp I generally prefer totm. It does somewhat reduce tactical complexity. For a scene like this it seems like the right choice - and agrees with my general thinking about combat - its more of a problem or a puzzle than just a bunch of math rocks.>
To that end I'm going to update Calner with the following details: I realize that, at starting over 4th level, you should have all had more gold than the base level indicated under normal character creation guidelines. Thus, not only should Calner have enough gp to buy the component needed, you should all have more than enough funds to secure the boat and probably several other things as well.
Everyone should have started with 500gp +1d10x25.
This was an oversight on my part. Please, update character sheets accordingly when you get a chance. If you have a need for any additional equipment that was unavailable due ro.economoc reasons. Go ahead and add that as well - but ask if it's something exotic>
(Marlyth's Turn)
Marlyth will cast Hunter's Mark on the second Troll in order to magically mark the creature as her quarry. Then she will use her Quarterstaff to attack the same creature while attempting to smash its head; tiny wisps of shrubs and fragrant petals of flowers appear at the site of impact.
Bonus Action: Hunter's Mark
Action: Quarterstaff [Shillelagh]: Attack: 16 Damage: 3 + 4 from Hunter's Mark
(@Wile_E_Coyote, I've added the starting gold pieces and reduced the price of a Rowboat, a pair of Axe Beaks and a pair of Bit and Bridle from the total amount.)
InkedBee (Undead_Analyst)
Covetous, Dragonish Thoughts - Jenviel Tsumara: Fallen Aasimar- Monk|Crimson Sands of Time - Navarra Iltazyara: Human- Druid/Warlock| Bleak Prospect - Ermasnietsz: Reborn- Clockwork Soul Sorcerer
(Yeah, I get that grids and specific movement tactics don't work well in Pbp. On the other hand, certain characters are designed to stand in front and take the hits, and others tend to hang back and use ranged attacks to avoid being in the reach of the bad guys. I think it's unlikely T would leave himself exposed in melee range, he probably stood and fired from his position in the boat, or else jumped to the side, but not right next to the troll, who was attacking the axe beaks at the front of the boat. He would have seen the characters already engaged in melee as a buffer. *shrug*)
Round 3
Finding himself in melee combat, Tabaqui will drop the shortbow, and draw his rapier, aiming to create a new orifice between the troll's ribs.
Rapier Attack: 21 Damage: 9 + sneak attack damage 16