One of my friends started doing a thing where he adds his damage together. When it's as high as his hit point total, then he's down. I am trying it out. So I just needed to math the subtraction. Not a lot of math but shrug.
I built a one-shot around this idea on a heavily-modded Tiny D6 system, letting people choose which of the 4 they wanted to be with variants like wealthy or scientific Victorian, captain or gunner pirate, disgraced or retired Samurai, cattle driver or 49'er, and so forth. I set it in San Francisco to get some good conflux of cultures.
Of my 4 players, 3 of them chose to be rich Victorians. facepalm
Speaking as a player (most of the time) I love making things worse for my poor character. And I send my evilest ideas to my DM. Who then makes them heartachingly worse. It's great.
Lower level and a high-level NPC bard gave the inspiration. Unsure whether he gave it to the NPC I was up against; if so, the guy flubbed that roll too.
Hm. Re-watching (scene inside the wagon starts about 1:27:00) and yeah, as she's swinging in and we see the floor from a different angle, they are flat. But at least one of them in this pic looks like a d6 with pips.
"Look, I'm sorry, I just had to check whether a stake through the heart would kill him. It didn't really occur to me that it would kill normal people too." ;)
First off the development of that backstory is beautiful.
Also my rogue lost all her dignity to a mimic recently.
2 mimics.
I shot the second one and tried to hide from it on a bookshelf but it frog-tongued me.
Also lost almost all my hit points.
I suppose the correct pedantic way to say it is "Lego bricks" even in the plural. But brevity in titles is a thing I strive for. Less so in the comments section.
Also marbles. Marbles feel surprisingly sharp for spheres when stepped upon.
We've tried some Roll20 and even a mix of in-person with someone zooming in (which we're gonna have to do again) but the commute is worth it for the in-person to me.
Then again we host so it's no commute off my nose. Just set up and clean up.
I did check! It went something like:
Me: Before I go further into this room, I'm backing up to the wall and shooting everything to see if any of it bleeds.
Party: You sure you're not going to get eaten by the wall?
Me: ...well if the wall is a mimic I'm already dead.
I'm told panic is a free action. Or was that crying. Probably both.