You’re good, my friend.honorentheos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 8:30 pmThat sounds like a fun premise for a group. I like the characters, too. Gnome wizard is a fun build and the two subclasses from Van Richten's sound like a promising mix though I haven't played or had anyone play either in a game.Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:15 pmBonus points for the Tiger reference!
My current party is a little weird. The original intent was to do a few short one offs to give the DM a chance to try out a bunch of ideas he had. So we just picked races/classes that we thought would be fun to play. The DM picked the opening segment of Strahd to start out with.
There are only three players. I’m a Reborn Bard. The other two are a Gnome wizard and a Hexblood Monk. All three of us are new at our respective classes. And none of us are min-maxers.
Even at level 8, The Roc was a challenge. We certainly don’t feel invincible yet! And we’re heading for the castle. Gulp.
Featherfall is one of those specialized spells that I’ve found really useful. Fall damage usually comes at very inconvenient times. And it allows for escape from bad situations.
I would imagine three lvl 8 PCs going up against a Roc requires some planning in order to beat it, no? Presumably your PC had become grappled and restrained after a successful talon attack (DC 19 to escape? Yikes) so the party must have had it pretty low on hp if they defeated it before it could take off on it's next turn. So it was not a given the party was going to stop it and the feather fall casting was likely then? Did someone get a timely crit?
The party was on a bridge with towers at the ends. There were guard stations in the base of each tower. We were traveling in a wagon with an NPC who was a good range fighter.
The bridge had damage in a couple locations. My stealth is good, so I snuck over the bridge to scout. All clear. As I turned, the roc attacked from the sky, missing on its surprise round. I cast something that prevented it from attacking one round. Tasha’s hideous laughter, maybe. On the next round, as the party scuttled across the bridge, I hit the roof with my best attack spell, Raulothim’s psychic lance. The I ducked into the closest guard house, protected by the bridge tower.
Or not. The roc landed, tried a break attack, but hit stone. Then it tried with talons, and was able to grab me. I couldn’t get away, so was immobilized for the balance of the fight. But, the roc couldn’t attack with its talons, which helped the party.
And you are on the nose, as the roc was beginning to fly away, the monk scored a fatal crit.
Damn, those birds have enormous drumsticks!