Re: (TFT) Death test first encounter: spider probs....

["joel siragher" <joel.siragher@gmail.com>]

Ok good detailed answer.

How does +4 DX equate to attacking twice per turn? Im not familiar with this
rule. Reference?

I looked up the date of publication. it was Death test 3rd edition. Thats
the one that describes the spiders

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca> wrote:

> I played it a long time ago but this is what I remember
> doing with it.
>
> First the spiders do two points of damage but if you
> have leather or better it stops all hits.
>
> (I thought that they had DX 10, so you could roll a
> single die and hit on a 1 to 3.  Roll twelve dice &
> you're done.)
>
> Being in HTH you get +4 DX so my players would hit
> twice per turn.  Those with armor slapped the ones on
> those with cloth or no armor.
>
> I looked on that chest as living example of the "Don't
> go into this dungeon with no armor" rule.
>
> I had one group of 32 att figures make it thru Death
> Test once, (4 of them).  However, four 40 attribute
> figures could easily die.  Two 32 attribute figures
> stand no chance.
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Sat, 2008-13-09 at 20:20 -0400, joel siragher wrote:
> > I am trying to learn tft to a level that that I can dm it again. At least
> > maybe i can run some noobs through death test.
> >
> > The first encounter was due west: 12 spiders in a chest. The party gets
> > init.
> >
> > For characters I was using Flavius and Wulf from Melee.
> >
> > As I was reading it, I translated it to read: 12 spiders automatically
> jump
> > on the people opening the chest, they go right into HTH,
> >
> > the spiders are 12 ocv... er... adjust dex :) They all do 2 pts of damage
> > per bite.
> >
> > This meant to me that 6 hit flavius all at once and 6 hit Wulf. Wulf has
> > zero armor.
> >
> > All six of them bit wulf on the first turn. Wulf was gone in 2 turns.
> >
> > I think I made a mistake. I was trying to see if all 6 could engage him
> in
> > hth at once.
> >
> > Are the critters that small that they could all get good shots in on him?
> > were they surrounding him in adj hexes, or actually on him...
> >
> > Please help this senior citizen figur out what should have been doing as
> a
> > DM and as player.
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