Voord 99 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 (edited) I happened to be visiting Dundrum Castle in Co. Down yesterday, and it occurred to me that one thing that there isn’t in the GPC, or — at least as far as I can remember — any of the other published adventures, is a fight on one of those very narrow medieval spiral staircases that, being clockwise, are designed to make it hard for a right-handed attacker going up the stairs to fight a defender above them. It seems to me that you’d give the defender the standard +5/-5 reflexive modifier for height, but that you’d want to jazz it up a little beyond that to make it a special experience. Maybe give the attacker also a -1d6 to damage? Thoughts? Edited July 19, 2021 by Voord 99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morien Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Not so sure they need an extra penalty but -1d6 sounds ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirUkpyr Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 20 hours ago, Morien said: Not so sure they need an extra penalty but -1d6 sounds ok. Perhaps instead of a -1d6 give them "disadvantage" (system from DnD/CoC whereby you roll two sets of numbers and take the lower one) on the damage roll. Thus, if the normal damage would be 6d6 - you would roll 6d6 twice and take the lower of the two sets of numbers. Bit more work - but I rather like the idea that you are "disadvantaged" when trying to do damage when on the stairs. Also - if the attacking up the stairs knight is using a spear or another piercing weapon - I would not give them a penalty for damage as the benefit of the winding stairs really only comes into play when swinging a sword. I spent a few years in europe, and have wandered my share of castle towers - so YES - those winding stairs were definitely designed to make it hard to swing a sword. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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