Out of Character

skill challenge lol I knew this is what my character isn't good at (barbarian AND paladin, pretty much the two worst "skill monkeys" in the game mushed into one)

edit: not saying I don't want to do it. more that I know this will be painful

If you can think of anyway to use a skill you are proficient in to avoid getting spotted or locate a place you haven't been to before or anything else that would make the lives of the others easier as they do, you might be surprised

Gotta love the dice roller. 🙄

Yeah, 6, 3, and 2. Yuck.

Yeah...didn't matter what skill I picked lol

Saving crits for later!

Yesterday in another game I got 2/3 scorching ray crits so maybe it is just the universe rounding out

Well, this just means you have to get 4 8s or higher in a row or else you fight the dragon haha

Would Argos be next to me then?

Right, forgot about him. I'll add that to the map. Argos is the find steed, right? that would make him large?

he is a find steed BUT I summoned the Mastiff option, so he is medium and I can't technically ride him (but if someone is small they can).

I'd like to believe my PC did not run around with shield done, but I would like to ask if we had time to done shield while enemy approached, were talking to as, were summoning the dragon... I mean if they appear from nowhere in 10 meters from us and we never hear them coming, then yes I'm totally unprepared for the fight, because my PC has a passive perception of 25 and he expect not to be unprepared for the fight.

Not a big deal mechanically, just trying to make sense of the story.

Well, I probably made my question unclear. Let me rephrase: are we in an environment where we can't see more than 10 meters away from us? Should I as player expect new enemies "spawn" just as close?

If it helps I imagine during this set up we would be sort of moving toward our gear as needed.

Also Argos vanishes back to not being summoned

Wow, handling 16 attacks, the second half maybe having advantage is the first half hit, was a lot. I hope you kill a ton of them soon to make this easier hahaha

I'll remove Argos.

Assuming all this constriction is a grapple? Wouldn't the to hit be based on opposing skill roll. STR (Athletics) vs Str (Athletics) or Dex (Acrobatics)

Some monsters just auto grapple on a hit, and this monster does that, and if the target is grappled by this then it is also restrained for the duration of the grappleYou would need to use the grapple rules to escape, but it didn't need to use the attack action and force a contest to grapple, it just had to hit with the attack

We just never ever should accept the skill challenge. hahaha. If we sneaked upon the enemy and attacked them at out terms this would be easy fight, not a super deadly as it is now