I will be extremely busy the next three days. I may be able to make short posts now and then, but can't promise anything. Go ahead and move my characters along and roll for me if necessary. Thanks!
For starters, the prone zombie will get an attack of opportunity against Durgrim (Which I highly dout will succeed given the -4 penalty from being prone).
(regardless of the AoO) Durgrim will smash his hammer hard on the creature, wounding it greatly, however, it is still standing up, albeit, barely...
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Yeah, the AoO missed.
Yeah, that was a calculated risk. Felt the repositioning/getting into the middle of combat was worth it :)
Okay, however, keep in mind that if you don't mention that you're provoking attacks of opportunities in your posts, I tend to assume you've forgotten about those and I feel obligated to remind you. Given the nature of play by post, I really want to avoid a situation where a player will suddenly change his mind after I tell him he'll provoke an attack of opportunity...
Maybe next time you guys accept provoking an attack of opportunity, try to remember to mention it in your post. I feel this will avoid confusion.
Okay, however, keep in mind that if you don't mention that you're provoking attacks of opportunities in your posts, I tend to assume you've forgotten about those and I feel obligated to remind you. Given the nature of play by post, I really want to avoid a situation where a player will suddenly change his mind after I tell him he'll provoke an attack of opportunity...
Maybe next time you guys accept provoking an attack of opportunity, try to remember to mention it in your post. I feel this will avoid confusion.
Now, the spell he's trying to cast is higher level, so he needs to succeed at a CL check to successfully cast it. Well, the RNG seems to have momentarily smiled on you as he failed to cast his spell. So if I understand correctly, the scroll is used up when cast, but since he failed, the scroll is not used up, right?
I was typing up a nice long post with my opinion on what happens with scrolls, and then I finally found the FAQ on this on the Paizo boards. As long as you succeed on the DC 5 Wisdom check to avoid a mishap, no, the scroll is not used up.
I realized that Durgrim forgot to roll his 20% miss chance because of the lighting condition within the church, but you know, you went during the day (and I think the encounter is meant to be ran at night), and those big double door are wide open letting light in, so I'll say that as long as you're between the alcoves, there's enough light to attack normally. But anyone not between the alcoves should remember to roll that 20% miss chance...
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I did try to ask about this:
Azira says:
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I assume the concealment doesn't affect Durgrim since he has Darkvision 60ft?
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So. Is this some kind of magical darkness that affects Dwarves even if they have Darkvision, or is Durgrim ok here?
Sadly, darkvision is overwritten in an area as soon as there is any sort of lightning condition present. If there were some dark corridor past the dimply lit church, Durgrim would be able to see fine inside it, up to the limit of his darkvision.
Darkvision is the extraordinary ability to see with no light source at all, out to a range specified for the creature. Darkvision is black-and-white only (colors cannot be discerned). It does not allow characters to see anything that they could not see otherwise—invisible objects are still invisible, and illusions are still visible as what they seem to be. Likewise, darkvision subjects a creature to gaze attacks normally. The presence of light does not spoil darkvision."