Played Lamentations of the Flame Princess for the first time on Saturday (a player in Kiel running Zak's Red and Pleasant Land), and found it pretty tight.
Then a weird thing happened, and I wonder what other GMs do in this situation:
I'm in a room that's thick with NPCs, including a few really high-value targets (e.g. monarchy and so on). Nobody's looking at me, and I'm in the back of the room with a light crossbow.
The thought crosses my mind - I probably can't kill anybody in here with this weapon. I can aim it at the queen and actually hit, and the likelihood of killing her is basically zero.
The crossbow did d6 damage, and the queen's probably (total guess) 40-60 hit points or so. As a fighter (someone who specializes in killing people), I might as well be hitting her with a shoe.
Even if my character was a 9th level specialist with a 4x damage multiple on sneak attacks, I can expect to do about 14 points of damage, which will get her attention but hardly kill her.
Isn't this a bit weird?
The GM is of course free to make any ruling he likes, but allowing fighters to kill people outright seems to erode the value of the the specialist's sneak attack.
Do you accept this as a quirk of the system, chiefly designed to make combat grind out long enough for some tactical play to unfold? Do you give some alternate ruling?
Then a weird thing happened, and I wonder what other GMs do in this situation:
I'm in a room that's thick with NPCs, including a few really high-value targets (e.g. monarchy and so on). Nobody's looking at me, and I'm in the back of the room with a light crossbow.
The thought crosses my mind - I probably can't kill anybody in here with this weapon. I can aim it at the queen and actually hit, and the likelihood of killing her is basically zero.
The crossbow did d6 damage, and the queen's probably (total guess) 40-60 hit points or so. As a fighter (someone who specializes in killing people), I might as well be hitting her with a shoe.
Even if my character was a 9th level specialist with a 4x damage multiple on sneak attacks, I can expect to do about 14 points of damage, which will get her attention but hardly kill her.
Isn't this a bit weird?
The GM is of course free to make any ruling he likes, but allowing fighters to kill people outright seems to erode the value of the the specialist's sneak attack.
Do you accept this as a quirk of the system, chiefly designed to make combat grind out long enough for some tactical play to unfold? Do you give some alternate ruling?
Heavy Pinbows
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