2 questions about HP2-03 Ancient Battles Unfinished scene 3?

That seems insane. That’s likely 1d10+4 damage bypassing all (or at least worn) AR every 2 ticks to likely 4 party members (2 per swarm since they can “deform” to any contiguous 4 squares).

Looking at the swarm characteristics, it says Natural AR does apply to the damage. However, the Spawn of Tzizhet just says “bypass AR” (but doesn’t seem to have a traits that would grant this). Is it supposed to be “bypass worn AR” or are the Spawn supposed to bypass all AR?

My character had Castigate (which, despite what everyone thinks, targets animals and mindless vermin just fine) and Elemental Bolt, so the fight wasn’t too bad. Without an AOE, however, it becomes MUCH harder

That seems insane. That’s likely 1d10+4 damage bypassing all (or at least worn) AR every 2 ticks to likely 4 party members (2 per swarm since they can “deform” to any contiguous 4 squares).

Just to clarify, I was running it with the damage occurring every 4 ticks, not 2. Steve is correct, however, the module does not specify an attack speed (that I could find) or state that NAR applies to the damage.

Natural Armor does not protect (i.e. apply) against these creatures attacks.

Thanks for the clarification.

Out of curiosity, what is the attack supposed to be that it bypasses NAR?

If NAR does not apply, I’d suggest changing the name of the attack. “Lash and Sting” sounds like a typical insect swarm attack (where NAR would definitely logically apply).

That seems insane. That’s likely 1d10+4 damage bypassing all (or at least worn) AR every 2 ticks to likely 4 party members (2 per swarm since they can “deform” to any contiguous 4 squares).

Just to clarify, I was running it with the damage occurring every 4 ticks, not 2. Steve is correct, however, the module does not specify an attack speed (that I could find) or state that NAR applies to the damage.

And I appreciate it. The encounter was bad at every 4 ticks.

Every 2 ticks would have been insane. No attack roll and an average (not including explosions) damage of 9.5 gives 4.75 dpt per target (so likely 9.5 or 14.25 dpt total per swarm) which is much higher than any character can get (almost 3x higher iirc). If we go with the “expected” 9.5 dpt per swarm (so 19 dpt total) and look at healing – Diminish Fatigue heals on average 10-11 every 7 ticks (4 speed, 3 strain) which equates to roughly 1.5 hpt – let’s be generous and say 4 people can cast it (or other heals) at 2 hpt – that’s likely 11 dpt unhealed so about every 6 ticks enough damage is going unhealed to drop a character (likely spread out so nobody drops that quickly). Add in damage die explosion and the damage gets even worse.

Yep. I took 1 wound last night (30 damage from these swarms) and kept thinking it was likely that I would get another one. I spent almost the entire 45 minutes getting damaged by the swarm (at the every 4 ticks Akira mentioned).

Hello Steve,

Yep. I took 1 wound last night (30 damage from these swarms) and kept thinking it was likely that I would get another one. I spent almost the entire 45 minutes getting damaged by the swarm (at the every 4 ticks Akira mentioned).

And welcome to a Battle Interactive.

These are meant to be tougher than normal battles and the threat of death is meant to be there. However, as far as I know, no one died at the BI and I believe, no one did at your either. So at the end of the day, the encounters did what they were suppose to do: create a tough challenge for your Heroes.

Take heart however, this was the last BI released for home play.