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Armas improvisadas e poderes de terrenos | TRAMPOLIM RPG — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:46:08 +0000

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By: Grant Marthinsen

Grant Marthinsen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:19:34 +0000

I have to agree with your earlier assesment…
The DC should stay the same, but thats why you are given reasons for this to be difficult. The “juicy” vines for example, or even varying door materials.
But when my PC’s have just been through a rough fight, or series of, I like to replace that next barred adamantite door with a locked iron one for example, to make them feel like the world isn’t totally against them.
Even though it is.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:39:00 +0000

I suspect you could say part of it is feasability in combat? I mean, yeah you can flip over the table, but flip it over and make it hit an enemy?

By: The Chatty DM

The Chatty DM — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:14:46 +0000

It’s all about mechanical abstraction. I too was frustrated about ‘epic Cave Slime’ back when I read the DMG, but have now since realized that as a DM you’ve got to scale the terrain’s fluff with PC level.

While you might still be using the mechanics of ‘table of Combustible’ at level 25 you cam refluff it as ‘Tipping the Doom-Boiler’ or Ripping open the sleeping Dragon’s gut or something to that effect.

Like I said back then… if climbing a Castle wall is DC 15 at level 1… it still should be at level 25… but by then, why are you still having PCs climb castle walls?

By: Brandan Landgraff

Brandan Landgraff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:23:12 +0000

Yeah Prince of Undeath does have a lot of free time for that sort of thing. I mean there’s only so much scheming and plotting you can do before you’re bored, and then you have all these minions and stuff to do the dirty work. A bit of Tarzan-swinging is just the way for a demon prince to let off steam.

By: Jonathan Drain

Jonathan Drain — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:05:57 +0000

I guess the easy vines all fall down a lot when Orcus tries to swing on them.

By: Brandan Landgraff

Brandan Landgraff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:06 +0000

It’s all in how it’s presented, of course…

Swinging Rope or Vine can be flavored differently at higher levels. The vines that Orcus keeps around are tendrils of slippery intestines coated in blood and other fluids that should only be described as “juicy”.

The table of combustibles at level 30 has much heavier apparati on it to allow the alchemist or wizard to safely brew the far more volatile ingredients.