Sythm's bolt flies true and slams into the Giant's face although the large creature pulls the bolt out of the puncture wound it created right next to its nose and snaps the bolt in two. Its eyes flash as it challenges, "Firing puny bolts from a distance will do nothing. Come and fight me here."
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
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Feeling relatively fresh after the last fight, if drained of power, Chan holds up his glowing shield as an arrow of stars flies from it towards the Giant. He then points to it and says “We only want to rest.”As he calls for a Toll.
Bonus action: Attack: 7 Damage: 6 action toll - wis dc 14 or 7
The blast from the starry form slams into the giant and the tolling bells cause it to shake its head and clear its mind. You see that you are slowly weakening it. The giant lets out a roar as it charges straight through the fire unharmed by it entirely. It swings its greatsword overhand towards Yuno, but you all realize too late that the blade is much longer than it appears. His muscular arms whistle past Yuno as they carry the blade towards Sythm.
(This attack will have a half-cover (+2 AC) given that Yuno is in between the giant and Sythm...)
Greatsword Attack: 30 Damage: 30
The giant then takes one hand off of its massive sword and attempts to bat Yuno out of the way and into the flames on the right.
Shove Attack: 18
(Yuno) Contested Check: 27
Raising her newly gauntleted arms, Yuno blocks the push and holds her ground firmly. The giant looks down surprised at the girl that hasn't moved and says, "Hmm. You're stronger than I thought."
Yuno is up next! (Although the entire party may queue their turns at this point!)
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(( Queuing. Also, I presume he was able to pickup his weapons before leaving the previous room. ))
"Hey, ugly!"yelled Gogon at the giant, his eyes flashing purple. "Pick on someone smaller!" Feinting with his spear, the halfling went into overdrive, alternating between thrusts and unarmed strikes, droplets of acid bursting from each hit to sizzle onto the floor.
ACTION: (1) Unarmed Strike - Attack: 19, Acid Damage:10 (2) Unarmed Strike - Attack: 19, Acid Damage:6 BONUS: Using Flurry of Blow to make two more attacks (3) Unarmed Strike - Attack: 19, Acid Damage:7 (4) Unarmed Strike - Attack: 26, Acid Damage:7
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Blocking the shove, Yuno holds on to the Giant's hand and says, "Big Mistake." She pulls the giant closer to her uses its momentum to attempt a strike on its face with her flaming Rapier. She then counter attacks with a second lunge towards the big guy's gut.
Flame Rapier: 8 Dmg: 10 + 2 + 9 Fire BA Rapier: 17 Dmg: 7 + 1
As he receives this almost lethal blow from the giant, Sythm understands he can't stand still this time. He runs away from the giant while being wary of any more attacks. Then, he shoots another bolt at the giant.
Seeing many of his companions’ attacks bounce off the giants armor, Chan holds his distance for now, continuing to launch star arrows, though realizes his foe is not very dexterous, so hopes his new wand may help to bind it.
Bonus action - Attack: 22 Damage: 6 web wand on the giant dex 15 or restrained - the fire will burn away some of the web... but maybe not all?
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Yuno yanks the giant in just close enough for her flaming rapier to take the puncture wound left by Sythm's bolt and expand it by a quarter of an inch. However, her second rapier clangs harmlessly against the giant's plate mail and the flames from her rapier lick up its face harmlessly. The giant grunts in pain but the flames illuminate its face in an eerie light and it is clear that he is not done yet. Gogon's feint draws the giant's attention to him, but as the giant turns, every single one of Gogon's flurry of attacks pings droplets of acid that corrode at his armor but seem unable to get past the thick plating to the giant itself. Sythm, meanwhile, still reeling from the giant's blow takes the opportunity to slip away quickly and fire a shot as he runs. The bolt thuds into the giant's arm, but although it elicits a wince, it doesn't seem to be doing significant harm. Chan's starry arrow strikes the giant and sears a radiant hole in part of the giant leg. A spray of webbing shoots of the wand and splotches above the fire and around the giant where it attempts to restrain him.
Dex Save: 12
The giant isn't able to dodge out of the way of the webbing and it prevents him from moving. However, the web immediately catches fire and it is clear that the webbing isn't going to hold for long.
The giant instead, of trying to break out of the webbing, instead just swings twice at Yuno from his restrained position.
The first attack blasts into Yuno and cuts a deep wound, but the webbing gets in the way of the second attack and Yuno easily dodges it. The webbing, however, is on fire and clearly will burn away by the end of Chan's next turn.
(OOC: I thought that this made sense both from a literal and mechanical perspective. He is restrained for one turn, but after one round, the webbing burns away given that he is standing in flames.)
Yuno is up next! (Although the party may queue their turns!)
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(Well, it does say in the spell's description that the web can ignite and describes what happens when it does. Every 5 ft. square that ignites is burnt away at the end of the round, and also deals 2d4 damage to anyone caught in it.)
Sythm walks carefully to the corner of the room, furthest as he can get from the giant. Then, he shoots an arrow at the giant. "Well, it's much easier to hit when the target can't move!" He says.
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"Gah!" Yuno says as she is knocked away from the sword swing. She digs in her heels to prevent the powerful sword attack from knocking her into a fire pit. "Nice shot." She comments before quickly closing the lost ground. She jumps in the air, switching both blades to an ice-pick grip again and attempts to plunge them both into the Giant's chest.
The monk took a step back and assessed his results. He'd not done much to the giant so far, and while his wounds were healed, fatigue was beginning to take its toll. He was slowing down.
More out of desperation than combat cunning, he decided to try cold magic again, and his eyes flashed blue. Using the weight of his spear to wind up into a spin, he leapt, and launched another few attacks at the giant's midsection before landing.
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The fire giant is bombarded by attacks as it roars in fury. All of the attacks strike true except for Gogon's back fist which unfortunately just bounces off of the giant's armor. The rest of the attacks take advantage of the giant's restrained condition and manage to land solidly on its weak points. Finally, just as the web finishes burning away, Chan rubs some salt in the wound and repeats his web shot to cover the giant in another thick layer of webbing.
Dex Save: 17
This time the giant manages to avoid getting stuck in the webbing and bears down smashing his greatsword down towards Yuno first.
Greatsword Attack: 14 Damage: 33
With its first blow, it easily knocks Yuno unconscious and transfers its attention to the archer. Shifting slightly over in front of Gogon, it moves to the left within the flames and strikes at Sythm with its greatsword.
Greatsword Attack: 26 Damage: 29
The second attack manages to knock out Sythm as well, leaving just Gogon and Chan to face this giant now.
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Chan, seeing his companions go down, but also seeing the giant start to get weak, feels a surge of ancestral power as his eyes flash and a pair of wings of light spread from his back. He leaps straight up 30 feet and pointing his shield at the giant shoots another star arrow at it.
Assessing the situation, Gogon grimaced. He couldn't bring up a teammate without risking an attack... might as well try to finish the giant off.
"Want some more, ugly?" he taunted, trying to keep the creature's attention away from Chan. He then repeated his previous flurry, hoping his opponent wasn't smart enough to have learned his pattern yet.
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Turned around the giant doesn't even notice Gogon coming until the halfling is already upon him. As every attack in Gogon's flurry finds its mark the giant teeters for a moment and then collapses to the ground with a thud. With quick use of Spare the Dying you manage to bring everyone back to consciousness at which point you all feel a surge of energy rush through you and your extensive wounds begin to knit themselves closed. You all immediately gain the benefits of a long rest.
(OOC: I streamlined some things... but because Gogon took it out on his turn, Chan would have been able to use spare the dying on one of you and healing word on the other one (third-level spell slot) and the spell slot would come back after the long rest... Ultimately that means that nobody else rolls any death saves but let me know if you would have done (want to do) differently!)
As you feel this rush of energy, four more doors appear in front of you.
2 ; 90 ; 63 ; 87
5 ; 2 ; 9 ; 6
The door on the left has an image of a mace, unglowing and unaltered, it appears to be non-magical. The door on the far right has an image of a familiar sack of gold letting off a slight glow. The door in the center-left has a slightly stronger glow and has an image of a bed on it to signify a short rest. Finally, the door on the center-right has the brightly glowing four-pointed star that you all know means a boss fight.
The gloves also glow for a brief moment and the giant's body leaves behind a sack of 25 GP in its place.
"Choose your fate!"
Doors (Left to Right): No Glow Short Rest Level Up Gold
(( Gogon repositions to S-12 ))
Tooltips Post (2024 PHB updates) - incl. General Rules
>> New FOW threat & treasure tables: fow-advanced-threat-tables.pdf fow-advanced-treasure-table.pdf
Sythm's bolt flies true and slams into the Giant's face although the large creature pulls the bolt out of the puncture wound it created right next to its nose and snaps the bolt in two. Its eyes flash as it challenges, "Firing puny bolts from a distance will do nothing. Come and fight me here."
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Feeling relatively fresh after the last fight, if drained of power, Chan holds up his glowing shield as an arrow of stars flies from it towards the Giant. He then points to it and says “We only want to rest.” As he calls for a Toll.
Bonus action: Attack: 7 Damage: 6
action toll - wis dc 14 or 7
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Wisdom Save: 4
The blast from the starry form slams into the giant and the tolling bells cause it to shake its head and clear its mind. You see that you are slowly weakening it. The giant lets out a roar as it charges straight through the fire unharmed by it entirely. It swings its greatsword overhand towards Yuno, but you all realize too late that the blade is much longer than it appears. His muscular arms whistle past Yuno as they carry the blade towards Sythm.
(This attack will have a half-cover (+2 AC) given that Yuno is in between the giant and Sythm...)
Greatsword Attack: 30 Damage: 30
The giant then takes one hand off of its massive sword and attempts to bat Yuno out of the way and into the flames on the right.
Shove Attack: 18
(Yuno) Contested Check: 27
Raising her newly gauntleted arms, Yuno blocks the push and holds her ground firmly. The giant looks down surprised at the girl that hasn't moved and says, "Hmm. You're stronger than I thought."
Yuno is up next! (Although the entire party may queue their turns at this point!)
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
(( Queuing. Also, I presume he was able to pickup his weapons before leaving the previous room. ))
"Hey, ugly!" yelled Gogon at the giant, his eyes flashing purple. "Pick on someone smaller!" Feinting with his spear, the halfling went into overdrive, alternating between thrusts and unarmed strikes, droplets of acid bursting from each hit to sizzle onto the floor.
Tooltips Post (2024 PHB updates) - incl. General Rules
>> New FOW threat & treasure tables: fow-advanced-threat-tables.pdf fow-advanced-treasure-table.pdf
Blocking the shove, Yuno holds on to the Giant's hand and says, "Big Mistake." She pulls the giant closer to her uses its momentum to attempt a strike on its face with her flaming Rapier. She then counter attacks with a second lunge towards the big guy's gut.
Flame Rapier: 8 Dmg: 10 + 2 + 9 Fire
BA Rapier: 17 Dmg: 7 + 1
+ Sneak attack on Flame Rapier attack: 5
As he receives this almost lethal blow from the giant, Sythm understands he can't stand still this time. He runs away from the giant while being wary of any more attacks. Then, he shoots another bolt at the giant.
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Seeing many of his companions’ attacks bounce off the giants armor, Chan holds his distance for now, continuing to launch star arrows, though realizes his foe is not very dexterous, so hopes his new wand may help to bind it.
Bonus action - Attack: 22 Damage: 6
web wand on the giant dex 15 or restrained - the fire will burn away some of the web... but maybe not all?
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Yuno yanks the giant in just close enough for her flaming rapier to take the puncture wound left by Sythm's bolt and expand it by a quarter of an inch. However, her second rapier clangs harmlessly against the giant's plate mail and the flames from her rapier lick up its face harmlessly. The giant grunts in pain but the flames illuminate its face in an eerie light and it is clear that he is not done yet. Gogon's feint draws the giant's attention to him, but as the giant turns, every single one of Gogon's flurry of attacks pings droplets of acid that corrode at his armor but seem unable to get past the thick plating to the giant itself. Sythm, meanwhile, still reeling from the giant's blow takes the opportunity to slip away quickly and fire a shot as he runs. The bolt thuds into the giant's arm, but although it elicits a wince, it doesn't seem to be doing significant harm. Chan's starry arrow strikes the giant and sears a radiant hole in part of the giant leg. A spray of webbing shoots of the wand and splotches above the fire and around the giant where it attempts to restrain him.
Dex Save: 12
The giant isn't able to dodge out of the way of the webbing and it prevents him from moving. However, the web immediately catches fire and it is clear that the webbing isn't going to hold for long.
The giant instead, of trying to break out of the webbing, instead just swings twice at Yuno from his restrained position.
Greatsword Attack: 14 Damage: 25
Greatsword Attack: 15 Damage: 24
The first attack blasts into Yuno and cuts a deep wound, but the webbing gets in the way of the second attack and Yuno easily dodges it. The webbing, however, is on fire and clearly will burn away by the end of Chan's next turn.
(OOC: I thought that this made sense both from a literal and mechanical perspective. He is restrained for one turn, but after one round, the webbing burns away given that he is standing in flames.)
Yuno is up next! (Although the party may queue their turns!)
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
(Well, it does say in the spell's description that the web can ignite and describes what happens when it does. Every 5 ft. square that ignites is burnt away at the end of the round, and also deals 2d4 damage to anyone caught in it.)
Sythm walks carefully to the corner of the room, furthest as he can get from the giant. Then, he shoots an arrow at the giant. "Well, it's much easier to hit when the target can't move!" He says.
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"Gah!" Yuno says as she is knocked away from the sword swing. She digs in her heels to prevent the powerful sword attack from knocking her into a fire pit. "Nice shot." She comments before quickly closing the lost ground. She jumps in the air, switching both blades to an ice-pick grip again and attempts to plunge them both into the Giant's chest.
Flame rapier attack: 19 (Adv: 20) Dmg: 8 + 3 + 8 Fire
BA Rapier: 23 (Adv: 9) Dmg: 11 + 3
+Sneak Attack on CRITCAL HIT attack: 7
+ Extra Crit damage: 2 + 3
The monk took a step back and assessed his results. He'd not done much to the giant so far, and while his wounds were healed, fatigue was beginning to take its toll. He was slowing down.
More out of desperation than combat cunning, he decided to try cold magic again, and his eyes flashed blue. Using the weight of his spear to wind up into a spin, he leapt, and launched another few attacks at the giant's midsection before landing.
Tooltips Post (2024 PHB updates) - incl. General Rules
>> New FOW threat & treasure tables: fow-advanced-threat-tables.pdf fow-advanced-treasure-table.pdf
(OOC: Gogon would have advantage due to the giant's restrained condition. If you just want to roll 3 attack rolls in a separate post that would work!)
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
(( Thanks, forgot to wait on that call. ))
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>> New FOW threat & treasure tables: fow-advanced-threat-tables.pdf fow-advanced-treasure-table.pdf
Seeing the web help his team, and hinder the giant, even as it burns away, Chan will repeat what he did previously, hoping to bind it again.
Bonus action - Attack: 7 Damage: 7
web wand on the giant dex 15 or restrained for one round
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The fire giant is bombarded by attacks as it roars in fury. All of the attacks strike true except for Gogon's back fist which unfortunately just bounces off of the giant's armor. The rest of the attacks take advantage of the giant's restrained condition and manage to land solidly on its weak points. Finally, just as the web finishes burning away, Chan rubs some salt in the wound and repeats his web shot to cover the giant in another thick layer of webbing.
Dex Save: 17
This time the giant manages to avoid getting stuck in the webbing and bears down smashing his greatsword down towards Yuno first.
Greatsword Attack: 14 Damage: 33
With its first blow, it easily knocks Yuno unconscious and transfers its attention to the archer. Shifting slightly over in front of Gogon, it moves to the left within the flames and strikes at Sythm with its greatsword.
Greatsword Attack: 26 Damage: 29
The second attack manages to knock out Sythm as well, leaving just Gogon and Chan to face this giant now.
Yuno Death Save: 15
Gogon is up next!
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Unless Gogon heals Sythm somehow, death saving throw: 5
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Chan, seeing his companions go down, but also seeing the giant start to get weak, feels a surge of ancestral power as his eyes flash and a pair of wings of light spread from his back. He leaps straight up 30 feet and pointing his shield at the giant shoots another star arrow at it.
Action: Radiant Soul
Bonus Action: Attack: 21 Damage: 11 + 5 radiant if hits
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Assessing the situation, Gogon grimaced. He couldn't bring up a teammate without risking an attack... might as well try to finish the giant off.
"Want some more, ugly?" he taunted, trying to keep the creature's attention away from Chan. He then repeated his previous flurry, hoping his opponent wasn't smart enough to have learned his pattern yet.
Tooltips Post (2024 PHB updates) - incl. General Rules
>> New FOW threat & treasure tables: fow-advanced-threat-tables.pdf fow-advanced-treasure-table.pdf
Turned around the giant doesn't even notice Gogon coming until the halfling is already upon him. As every attack in Gogon's flurry finds its mark the giant teeters for a moment and then collapses to the ground with a thud. With quick use of Spare the Dying you manage to bring everyone back to consciousness at which point you all feel a surge of energy rush through you and your extensive wounds begin to knit themselves closed. You all immediately gain the benefits of a long rest.
(OOC: I streamlined some things... but because Gogon took it out on his turn, Chan would have been able to use spare the dying on one of you and healing word on the other one (third-level spell slot) and the spell slot would come back after the long rest... Ultimately that means that nobody else rolls any death saves but let me know if you would have done (want to do) differently!)
As you feel this rush of energy, four more doors appear in front of you.
2 ; 90 ; 63 ; 87
5 ; 2 ; 9 ; 6
The door on the left has an image of a mace, unglowing and unaltered, it appears to be non-magical. The door on the far right has an image of a familiar sack of gold letting off a slight glow. The door in the center-left has a slightly stronger glow and has an image of a bed on it to signify a short rest. Finally, the door on the center-right has the brightly glowing four-pointed star that you all know means a boss fight.
The gloves also glow for a brief moment and the giant's body leaves behind a sack of 25 GP in its place.
"Choose your fate!"
Doors (Left to Right):
No Glow
Short Rest
Level Up
Gold
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”