OK folks, I have a question for you DMs and players out there. This is something that happened in my last game, and I am still waiting to find out the results from where my group left off from.
Party: (all level 2) Barbarian, elf Rogue, dwarf Cleric, and Sorcerer
we are inside of a dungeon. While walking down a hallway, we find a pile of bones and look to find 40-50 feet up in the air, is a hallway leading off. There is a chain dangling from the ceiling being the only way to get up there.
After we all climb, the rogue leads the group by 10 feet ahead (and forgot to mention the active searching). She notices that there are long lines down the hallway, which look like dagger marks ... but only on the floor. When she gets to the end of the hallway, the entire group hears a 'click' and suddenly roll a will save for some paralyzing flashing lights (barb fails).
One round later, a dull wind starts blowing. This wind increases to hurricaine magnitude winds blowing down the corridor. All of the party thinks that this will quell in 5-10 rounds (std round=6 sec. so up to 1 minute or so ...). so we all hold our ground against the trap. The 2 characters with rope (sorcerer and rogue) both try and tie their ropes to themselves and get them onto the rest of the party.
We all go prone, and then the barbarian gets un-paralyzed. He gets the bright idea to use glue on himself to stick to the ground for 2d4 rounds (i forget what the item is, but it worked). So, here we are ... all tied together, and the glue fails. We eventually all fail our fortitude rolls in a sucession that leads to:
The rogue dangling down the shaft with everyone else tied together at the top, we had already failed the fort/reflex save to stay up there ... so we will find out what is going to happen to us there.
NOTE: The DC on the trap was 25. The rogue would have had to roll a 14 to have seen it. This was based off of the flashing lights spell, not the howling wind spell. AND the howling wind spell was 10 minutes in duration, so we SHOULD have gotten down the shaft to safety before we got to hurricaine force winds.
here is my question:
The rogue is hanging onto the chain up the shaftway, and has 10 feet of slack on the rope ... but is 5-15ft below the group. Everyone else is tied together. The dwarf has a ring of feather fall on her. The shaft is 40-50 feet. What would you have happen to the group?
EDIT
this is a quick MS Paint drawing of the situation.
here is something else I just made:
http://artpad.art.com/?io1r2z1ibcd0watch it being made as a movie, as it tells the tale.
The rogue starts out 10 feet ahead of the party as they approach the trap. When the trap is set, the rogue ties a 50 foot rope around her waist and it flies back behind her. The cleric, sorcerer, and barbarrian are all tied together. The rogue gets tied to the cleric. When the trap finally pushes everybody to their finishing point, the rogue is hanging onto the chain 5-10 feet below the rest of the group (she is attached to them with 10 feet). The rest of the group is ALL tied together, and just failed their save to be able to stay up there. That is where the group left off.
the_elephant - (no subject) [+1]
they are all bound together ... they were in a group.
I was under the impression that they were strung together in a line, mountain-climber style. But given the limitations on the ring, it shouldn't matter at all.
We found it on a mummified hand. The rogue threw it ("ewww .. a zombied hand" *fling over the shoulder) and it floated softly to the ground.
My group, most the rogue players usually will roll spot checks as we walk down a corridor: DM: "okay, so you guys are walking --" roge: "25" DM:"you see nothing. anyway, continue walking--" "32" "Okay, I get you"
:Þ
i just know now that I am going to have to declare my searhes more better than what I thought.
At least you meant to tell the DM you were actively searching, chesch. I've been in a game with a rogue who would only find traps when the ranger kicked him through the door. But he ended up glued to a ceiling with Soverign(sp) Glue.
I don't think that they will have time to draw weapons and attack at the ropes that bind them in enough time to make it matter, but I will suggest that to my DM.
This is a premade dungeon from the dragon series (i think). It is, apparently, a series that can level characters from 1-20. The only drawback is that it is REALLY tough on the characters.
The dwarf will be "feather falling" for a fraction of a second when she goes over the edge, until the other two people to whom she is tied pull the rope taut on her. Then the massed weight will overcome the ring's magic, and all three characters will fall like a stone.
The rogue will have a fraction of a second to cling to the chain before the weight of all three companions yanks her down. Maybe a quick Escape Artist check could wiggle her free of the rope, allowing her to avoid the weight. Presumably, she cannot support three other characters (one of whom is a dwarf), but if she can, then you have a Disney-like situation in which all three tied characters are suspended 30 feet above the ground by the desperately clinging rogue.
After that, it will take a bit more than 1 second for everyone to hit the ground. That's less than a standard action; it's even less than a move action. I'd say you all have time for a free action before you hit the ground and add yourselves to the trophy pile at the bottom of the cliff.
Oh, and some last advice: buy a copy of Grimtooth's Traps, where your DM got this little gem.
Thank you on the artwork. I thought that it was a better way to show how everything happened than a static pic :) that and I am uber L33T at art (can't you tell?)
that is pretty much the situation that we have here. Things go splat. The group is tied up in a way that they will *essentially* all hit the ground at the same time.