Ok. Remember I am new to this rules gaming, so please, if anyone sees something I am doing wrong or missing, whatever? Please let me know ok? Either here or in PM, if it is particularly embarrassing.

Thank you for your patience with a Newbie. I promise to give it my best.

Look to how many hit points you have and I am likely to not have the first monsters you face have more than you do.

But even though they don't have a lot of points, they do seem to be resistant to a lot of the normal weapons, especially ranged, so that ups the danger, I think.

Once they are hit, then they shouldn't be too hard to kill. Hitting them, without winding up BBQ, is the hard part.

Spells tp protect your partners can be good too. Lending aid or making others stronger are good actions. Spells like Wall of Force put a barrier between you and the enemy.

So just review what your character can do to help out.

If the creatures are weakened then maybe Lum can hack them up with his axe before they hurt him too much.

If you are up close and personal with the firebugs, chances are they can't shoot fire at you.

just a thought, but if someone here is manufacturing this darn bugs, we might want to be careful about making too much noise at the front door. Rhys really needs some kind of support. We also need to be clear for the DM - are we moving down the steps? Is Lum charging? How far away are we?

Anybody have a way to help Rhy stay concealed until he is close enough for a chain lightning spell?

We haven't heard from Tann yet for ideas or possible actions.

Maybe these thing don't see well in the dark. If we knock out the light and sneak up on them Lum and Rhys could get within 20 feet. They glow so we can see they.

Rhys zaps the chain lightening and then Lum goes in with the Great Axe. Mairead could then sneak around the edge to the doors and get behind them while the battle rages.

I'm not too worried right now about being quiet in battle, we got to take them out to move on.

Would like to know what Tomiki can do to help.

Any thoughts?

The one key for chain lighting is that I suspect we don't want any of us within that range when the spell goes off or they might get zapped as well. So spell, then Lum charges.

As for the light, interesting idea since they do glow. But most critters can see in the dark better than we can so I doubt we gain that much, especially since taking out the light gives us away to begin with. Do we even have a way to do that?

I'd say the rumble, dust and debris from the ground collapse has already put them on alert. If they weren't the door guards they most likely would have come up to see if food was available. So there isn't any surprise to anything as I see it.

I'm just waiting on a ninja. I'm just waiting for a friend.

That's the Stones right?

Yeah this Ninjas are notoriously hard to find.

Hello? We still playing?

Need to hear from our Ninja.

Three out of four have possible actions, need #4 to chime in.

I'm unsure how this works. I know that in my post I said that my character was casting Stone Cloak on herself, while we were watching the bugs and discussing strategy. I also mentioned that the first thing she will do when we go into combat, is she will cast Hero's Might on the whole Group. So if we are going to combat right away, that will be her first action right there, unless of course she is attacked herself. I hope they can't hit them up there.


Oh Ninja!!! Damn, why they always wear black you can't see them when they do that.

Mom spring some Doc appts on me she forgot to tell me about until she knocked on my door saying "Al I need to go to see Doc so and so today"

"Ok Mom when"

"In an hour"

"GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr""

Well all I can add is very simple really. While Lum distracts it I'll try to sneak or climb behind it and get close enough to attack with my Ninja-To's. My stars are out and my blasters are not gonna do anything so that's all I got