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[Our Angry Bear Brain]

Bear had a doctor appointment follow up and that sapped 2 hours, so there will likely be a brief pause until tomorrow

[Τamamo]

That's fine, hope you're doing well!
I was afraid you were waiting for Cat's move, she will stay where she is. Good idea from Kashtan, that could have ended badly!

[Our Angry Bear Brain]

Got it posted, you are engaged with the enemy now.

[Τamamo]

Well, so much for our surpise. Good work from Ashley though! I'm glad she wasn't shot. Summon Nixie and make her flank Mr. Harvey! Let's see how this goes.
So what happens if the bandit fires into the battle? I assume he will. Is there some flatly distributed chance that any creature involved is hit or can only those who are in line of sight be hit? Right now Cat is obscured by the troll.

Another question - if one of us flanks everyone has advantage. That means Cat's Reckless Attack will provide no additional benefit. Or is there something like double andvantage?

[Our Angry Bear Brain]

Advantage does not stack.

The man on the wall would need line of sight and there is at least partial cover. Since his move ended with a dash, he couldn't fire this turn. He could guess but shooting through a tree is poorly advised. I'd have to look into that. I would give you full cover if you are on the other side of a large creature.

Flanking works for those who are in opposite positions, you must be roughly on the opposite side of at least one other ally. A third who is 90 degree off would not get flank but I am not too picky about that if you had unused movement because there's no penalty to move to that position as long as you don't disengage. If you say you flanked, I would take it to mean you moved to a flanking position and nove you.

[Alice]

Flanking works for those who are in opposite positions, you must be roughly on the opposite side of at least one other ally. A third who is 90 degree off would not get flank but I am not too picky about that if you had unused movement because there's no penalty to move to that position as long as you don't disengage. If you say you flanked, I would take it to mean you moved to a flanking position and nove you.

I didn't know that.
I assumed as soon as 2 people attacked someone from roughly opposite positions anyone else joining the fun also had advantage. So if 3 people attack a creature in a 60° angle forming an equilateral triangle, none of them gets advantage?

[HIT vs (AC13,AC16) 1d20+7=(10,15)]

Yulya cast Shield of Faith on me, my AC is 15 now!

[Our Angry Bear Brain]

>So if 3 people attack a creature in a 60° angle forming an equilateral triangle, none of them gets advantage?

That's my interpretation of Vanilla but I would definitely say if you have them surrounded then you catch them off guard which is like flanking in this game.

>15AC

Okay, thanks for that I had the note and if he had actually hit you I would have hopefully read it.

[Τamamo]

[According to the rules, since you apply "Life-Giving Force" at the start of your turn while Raging, you won’t be able to use this until the turn after you Rage.

That's correct, my mistake!
Despite all, everything went better than expected. All attacks hit and nobody is down. Cat will give Alice additional HP this turn. That the troll gains HP by hitting us is troublesome though. We must finish him off this turn!

[Alice]

That was some decent damage output!
But I miscalculated as usual, only Hand of Healing can be used together with Flurry of Blows for 1Ki point. So I spent 2 on the first attack. Damn... I also forgot about the consequences of running out of Ki points but that doesn't matter now. We gotta take the troll down so I will use my last one. If he feeds on damage he deals to us that could go very wrong very fast.

About flanking, can't we set up the 60° triangle I talked about? If one side of that triangle faces the crossbowman he should not have a line of sight on anyone of us.

[Our Angry Bear Brain]

[Kashtan]

based.

Yulya should have gone 10 ft further south last turn unless she would have been a target there? i dont think so.
ok here we go again! thanks to Alices brilliant math we believed we could uphold the attacks for 3 rds. but shes out of ki already. still surprised she dealt most dmg of all of us. from ermine to mongoose. but soon back to ermine. i hope this doesnt continue for much longer.

[Τamamo]

Wow, we took down the troll!
I imagined the beastmaster would show up but not that boldly. I say Cat goes Leeroy Jenkins and tests how tough that guy is. Alice should go into the tree and shoot him as he's out of her combat reach while Nixie keeps the troll grappled and prone.

[Alice]

Interesting question - can I take the ballista from the troll? I guess it's too heavy.
Also how far SW do I have to move so I can shoot the beastmaster while having full cover?

[Our Angry Bear Brain]

It's too heavy to weild for you. I'll check if you can even lift it

[Kashtan]

Yulya is still too far north and should have moved 10 ft south 2 turns ago.

Yulya waits for the other attacks to connect then takes her Goblin staff and with Darans Ring of Quick Casting casts 2x Toll the Dead on the monster. After the attack is finished she moves 10 ft S but makes sure she stays in cover of the tree and out of sight of the bandit.

shes gotta get east enough to be out of the reach of the bandit but needs a line of sight to the beastmaster