Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

Then forgot to roll with disadvantage, so take the worst of the above or these...
S1 Attack: 19
S2 Attack: 19
S3 Attack: 12
S4 Attack: 12
S5 Attack: 10

S1 AoO from Bats : Attack: 24 Damage: 11

S2 AoO from Bats: Attack: 7 Damage: 2 Attack: 16 Damage: 5

S3 AoO from Bats: Attack: 5 Damage: 5

S4 AoO from Wolf: Attack: 8 Damage: 7 Attack: 16 Damage: 7 Attack: 24 Damage: 14 (if they hit, DC 11 strengths checks or it can't get away). 

S5 AoO from Wolf : Attack: 20 Damage: 4 (if they hit, DC 11 strengths checks or it can't get away). 

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The dire wolves continue trying to pull Lionel to the ground : Attack: 22 Damage: 8  Attack: 18 Damage: 6   (DC 13 strength checks or knocked prone on a hit)

A wolf charges Skeleton 5 : Attack: 19 Damage: 7 (if they hit, DC 11 strengths checks)

Three wolves continue chomping down on Skeleton 4 : Attack: 24 Damage: 14  Attack: 19 Damage: 9 Attack: 18 Damage: 8  (if they hit, DC 11 strengths checks or knocked prone).   

Bats swarm the fleeing skeletons : 

Three swarms on Skeleton 3 : Attack: 8 Damage: 5 Attack: 15 Damage: 5 Attack: 17 Damage: 5 

One swarm on Skeleton 6 : Attack: 10 Damage: 7

The vampire creatures skuttle to the outside of the towers, staying out of the sunlight. 

Rahadin throws darts twice more, through the crowd, trying to strike Lionel : Attack: 19 Damage: 8 + 6 poison damage. Attack: 27 Damage: 7 + 8 poison damage.

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Everyone's turn. 

Seeing two others attacking the bridge guy, Ulthan continues to fight the most hurt wolf to get it off the dwarf.
Stabs with dagger  Attack: 28 Damage: 7
Stabs with offhand shortsword Attack: 22 Damage: 3
Stabs with dagger Attack: 16 Damage: 7

Copy paste failed, I hoped to copy just formulas not the actual dice, below to be ignored.
Stabs with the dagger: 19 Damage: 6
Stabs with shortsword in his offhand: Attack: 26 Damage: 10
Stabs again with dagger: 11 Damage: 6

     "You volunteering to be the target I practice on?" Ketch snarls at Ezz and continues moving toward the pale elf.  

     "Pākuʻi i kēia!" Ketch says, calling for a Spiritual Weapon that looks like an transparent orange and spectral Ezz.  The spiritual weapon forms into existence directly next to the pale off and swats at him as if this Ezz was a giant club.

     "Pāhū iā ʻoe" Ketch says next, once more sending two bubbling, popping, crackling orange blasts at the elf...  Ketch gives a silent prayer to Gruumsh that they strike, to Dave face if nothing else.  And if very thankful he shall be in melee range soon!

Spiritual Weapon Attack: 11 Damage: 13 plus 4 Necrotic from Hex

Eldritch Blast 1 Attack: 17 Damage: 0 plus 1 Necrotic from Hex

Eldritch Blast 2 Attack: 13 Damage: 0 plus 3 Necrotic from Hex

((Screwed up damage on the Eldritch Blast.  Second surely won't hit but if the 1st hit it is for 7 plus the 5 Necrotic from Hex...))

Lionel continued using the strength of his steed and the might of his sword:

The steed kicked one wolf: Attack: 18 Damage: 11

and Lionel added two swings of the Sunblade:

Attack: 13 Damage: 11 

Attack: 22 Damage: 13

Mordekai holds his ground where he is, roughly in the centre of the group. It's not obvious whether to be able to help anyone in dire need, or for his own protection. Or both.

Seeing an orange blast fizz into Rahadin, Mordekai doubles down, unwilling to be shown up. 

Attack: 23 Damage: 14 + 2 Hex.

Attack: 9 Damage: 9 + 4 Hex.

(I forgot to add the Hex damage to last turn's rolls. Clearly they missed simply because the dice gods were making sure of accurate bookkeeping)

Meepo's skeletons...
S2 is taken out by the mob of bats...
S4 strength check... 15

S4 is taken out by the wolves...
Meepo has the skeletons again attack with thier weapons, then he has those not in combat with bats move away from the wolves, think that is just S5. i assume the wolves there are close enough together...

Meepo sends a fireball to blast those wolves. DC 15 dex save or take: 23 fire damage, half on a save.
If S5 cannot get away, then Meepo sends the blast anyway.

Skeleton attacks...
S1 Attack: 7 Damage: 11
S3 Attack: 7 Damage: 10
S5 Attack: 11 Damage: 9
S6 Attack: 14 Damage: 11
S7 Attack: 16 Damage: 9
S8 Attack: 7 Damage: 6
S9 Attack: 17 Damage: 11
S10 Attack: 15 Damage: 7

Ulthan stabs one of the dire wolves and it collapses, dead on the ground. Then Lionels' mount smashes the other in the head, and Lionel catches it on a flank with his glowing blade.  Still the thing lives. 

The orange glowing "Ezz" thuds Rahadin in the head, then a blast hits him, and another from Mordekai, the pale elf cursing.  

Back with the skeletons playing rear guard against the wolves, when the trailing skeleton tries to get away, no less than 4 wolves are on him to drag him down into the dirt and mud.  

Attack: 21 Damage: 6 Attack: 19 Damage: 7 Attack: 19 Damage: 5 Attack: 20 Damage: 7 

As the skeleton is dragged down, Meepo unleashes a fireball.....the roaring inferno ripping through the four remaining wolves.  When the fire clears, four charred corpses remain smoking in the sizzling muck. 

More bats are killed as arrows slice through them.  Only two swarms remain trying to attack anything around them. 

One swarm attacks S3 : Attack: 17 Damage: 5

One swarm attacks S7 : Attack: 14 Damage: 4

Ketch and Ezz who are charging across the bridge see Strahd himself appear in the courtyard.  A wide smile is on his face. 

Rahadin throws two more poison darts yet again, all the way past most of the group to strike out at Lionel. 

Attack: 16 Damage: 9 + 4 poison damage.  Attack: 24 Damage: 8 + 4 poison damage. 

Then he strolls casually away around the corner on the inside of Ravenlofts courtyard, so that you can no longer see him. 

The last dire wolf attempts once more to drag Lionel out of the saddle.  Attack: 15 Damage: 8

Everyone's actions.  

And as we move into the castle and across the bridge, I'm going to introduce a new battle map so I don't have to hackzor so much stuff. 

Squares are 10 foot blocks.

Ulthan stabs the last wolf worried a bit from a all the damage the dwarf took. That sword was something that kept him and likely the whole group alive and would prove critical in the fight ahead. It's either that thought or "hrmpfh where minions from hrmpfh".
Stabs the remaining wolf rapidly to free up the dwarf from looking to his wounds.
Dagger stab 25 Damage: 5 
Emotion shortsword stab Attack: 22 Damage: 6 I missed the +1 from the sword, please add +1 to hit and +1 to damage.
Dagger stab 11 Damage: 7

Ulthan's repeated slashes slay the last Dire wolf, and it collapses from it's hideous wounds. 

     Ketch moves his Spiritual Weapon 20' after where the cowardly elf ran...

     Ketch himself advances his thirty feet of movement and tries to spot the elf.    "Pāhū iā ʻoe" Ketch says, spitting the words out, and sending forth two more blasts of Eldritch energy.  The beams target the pallid coward, if visible.  If Ketch cannot see him from this vantage then the beams blast the under coward, Strahd himself. 

Blast 1 Attack: 20 Damage: 1

Blast 2 Attack: 16 Damage: 10

((If Ketch can indeed target the elf, add 2 to Blast 1 and 5 to Blast 2 - necrotic damage from the Hex.))

(Have a feeling we both subtracted Lionel's HPs)

The man knew how to throw darts, Lionel had give him that - to get through the full plate from such distance, that was serious. The monster in a service of a monster also had to be put down, but vampire spawn was too close, only scared away by the sword. He allowed himself to move forward just enough that to keep Ulthan and Mordekai reachable and within deem light radius.

But he also feel dangerously weak and could not allow himself to perish just yet, not when the enemy was so close. Healing Hands for 20 points self.

Ketch comes around the corner. Thick, cold fog swirls in this courtyard. Sporadic flashes of lightning lance the weeping clouds overhead as thunder shakes the ground. Ancient barrels, stacked rotting crates, a pile of dirt, a broken down wagon, and areas of overgrown vines fill the inner courtyard. A quick glance around and Ketch doesn't see Rahadin, though the door to the gate tower is open a crack.  Ketch fires his blasts at Strahd instead. The first blast at Strahd hits a glancing blow, while the second hits him solidly.  He continues to have a stupid smile on his face. 

Ezz sees Strahd and her emotions go ice cold...Ketch hears her say, "Here we go you undead piece of crap...." under her breath....and she charges Strahd as fast as she can.

Lionel turns and begins advancing, making sure to keep Mordekai and Ulthan in the light.  As soon as he's 20 feet onto the bridge with his glowing light....Strahd acts.

Strahd raises his hands and a fireball flies from them, ripping right past Ezz, right past Ketch, and between the two tall gate towers which it momentarily bathes in orange light before streaking to the bridge and exploding in a ball of fire that erupts around Lionel, Ulthan and Mordekai. ( 34 Fire damage, DC 18 Dex save for half. ).   Though the group was caught in the blast, they don't see to have been Strahd's primary target.  He seems to have been waiting for Lionel specifically to reach the center of the bridge.  The rickety boards of the drawbridge seem to have been his target and burnt and weakened from the magical inferno, they give way beneath Lionel's mount...and they begin falling through the surface....

Mordekai and Meepo's turn still. 

Ulthan remembers the good old days as the fireball blasts him. Even if he survives he figures the collapse of the bridge would do him in. He wonders how his plan of scaling the side walls severely turned into front assault. That said he thinks of of his mountain and takes the blast like one. Save 15, reduction goliath -15 as he's falling he quickly eats his berries.

(Neither Mordekai, nor Ulthan are falling...the only person on the bridge was Lionel and his mount...your feet are solidly on the ground...on the far side of the crevice from Strahd's castle...)

DC18 DEX save: 24

(Where is Lionel at the moment? Is he further than 30ft from solid ground? I.e. out of his Misty Step range?). Never mind, just realised Lionel can fly if he needs to.  Mordekai goes up to Ulthan, and says, "It's time to join the fun.  And no turning back or running away today."  With that, Mordekai casts Dimension Door to transport himself and Ulthan to the other side of the burned bridge, where Ketch and Ezz were on the map before they both moved.  As he does so, he glances back to Meepo, hoping he'll be ok, but assuming Lionel can carry the kobold once he flies out of the chasm. 

(Also, sneaky DM, sending Rahadin out to take Hex and flee before we can kill him, rendering Hex entirely wasted... well played)

(Oh, concentration save for Hex.  DC10 having only taken 17 damage, right?  And presumably with Lionel's +3 aura, given that we were within the same fireball blast.  If not, take 3 off the result: 8

Pffft run away thinks Ulthan, called strategic retreat which would have been done had minions been around last time, but sneaky Strahd hid them all leaving us to believe there's no one in the castle. That said guess might as well die this side of the bridge then the other side, so he lets the spell drag him along. Luckily flame cauterized all wounds, though unfortunately now in greater pain so there's that. Still not sure about the suicide mission we seem to be on.
He's going to stay close to the dwarf (once dwarf gets to this side), so bow if people too far, melee if in range. Primary Rah, secondary Stra, tertiary anything that tries to take the dwarf down. If ranged then Stra does not become secondary, I'll skip over him for now and hit tertiary target and if no one attacking dwarf then anyone in range on the other side of the bridge.
If melee then he switches hands putting sword as primary.
Sword Attack: 27 Damage: 7
Dagger Attack: 28 Damage: 4
Sword Attack: 17 Damage: 7
If ranged
Arrow Attack: 18 Damage: 7
Arrow Attack: 28 Damage: 14

Is meepo close enough to the vampire to counterspell the fireball?