Part 3: Investigating the Moathouse Ruins

Surprise Round ends. Round 1 begins!
Turn order is as follows:
-->1. Gilly (8)
2. Alice (6)
3. Eltrezar (5)
4. Angel (4)
5. Giant Lizard (1)
6. Elmo (6, 2-handed)

The Giant Lizard attacked at a diagonal angle. The door is in the middle of the hallway, so if anyone wishes to rush into the room on their turn they can enter through L12 or L13, as both spaces contain the door. Remember, you can pass through a fellow PCs space when you move, but you may not stop on a fellow PC's space, and you may not pass through an enemy's space.

@KCC69: This Giant Lizard is large for a lizard, but at 5' in length, it's not greater than human-sized. So Gilly's AC for this encounter is 4.

Round 1 continues! Turn order is as follows:
1. Gilly (8)
2. Alice (6)
-->3. Eltrezar (5)
4. Angel (4)
5. Giant Lizard (1)
6. Elmo (6, 2-handed)

@charles.c.cowley: Oof is right!

I could make the argument that Eltrezar would have to declare he's casting a spell at the beginning of the round, but I think that's going to be a difficult rule to enforce in a PbP game to be honest, because it's going to require every player to sit and wait for a magic casters to declare before the game can resume each round.

However, I would be willing to argue that a caster has to see their target to use Magic Missile, and it would be pretty difficult for Eltrezar to see the lizard considering where the lizard is standing in relation to where the actual door is, and therefore Magic Missile might not be possible.


So I'll give you two options:
1) You can keep the roll as is, doing the 2 damage, and use up your spell slot.
or
2) You can assume that Magic Missile wouldn't work right now, and retcon your turn this round.

I'm fine with either, BUT if you retcon the turn and move to a place where you have a better line of sight and cast Magic Missile this round, you have to stick with the "1" roll. If you opt to retcon the Magic Missile attack this round altogether, you can do something else instead, such as move and dagger, move in the room but stay away and let the less squishy PCs handle the melee, etc.

Zooming in, it's pretty clear that he wouldn't have any sight of it. It didn't look that way from the previous map, which is why I assumed it would work. I would like to retcon my turn to move into the room to K-12 and throw a dagger. If the creature is still standing, I'll use my spell next turn and stick with that miserable 1.

Round 1 continues! Turn order is as follows:
1. Gilly (8)
2. Alice (6)
3. Eltrezar (5)
4. --> Angel (4)
5. Giant Lizard (1)
6. Elmo (6, 2-handed)

Alright, I'll NPC Angel this turn...

Round 1 ends. Round 2 begins! Turn order is as follows:
-->1. Gilly (6)
2. Eltrezar, Giant Lizard (4)
3. Angel (3)
4. Alice (2)
5. Elmo (3, 2-handed)

I'm good with Eltrezar re-rolling damage on this lizard if he casts his Magic Missile. When we retconned Eltrezar's last turn we retconned everything.