Random Evasion Animals

[Deaths_ward]

Which mad developer decided it would be a good idea to give every animal, and a number of vermin the Evasion ability. It makes me sad when I throw ball lightning in the middle of a bunch of twilight rats, and see 9 saves go off and no damage, and then die.

Honestly, who came up with this idea, it makes no sense, and as far as I know there's never been anything like this in PnP. Honestly just why....?

[MysticTheurge]

You've got to get those animals up to CR 14 somehow, right?

[Josh]

That's and how bats never seem to have to roll to hit you either...they just do. Makes total sense that my 56 AC fighter always gets hit by them whether its in a swarm or not. Another fine dev creation.

[MysticTheurge]

That's and how bats never seem to have to roll to hit you either...they just do. Makes total sense that my 56 AC fighter always gets hit by them whether its in a swarm or not. Another fine dev creation.

Well, technically, that's how "swarms" work.

They've just had to animate them as individual bats.

Our bats are some weird kind of pseudo-swarm.

[Zenako]

Yah swarms are annoying in PnP D&D, in some recent battles the only damage my tank took was from some Rat Swarms auto hitting for thier d6 of damage, while the CR8 mobs had trouble doing anything to me. At the end of that battle, half the damage on me was from the swarms and the rest from friendly fire area of effect spells dropped on my head to hurt the main mobs and clear out the annoying swarms.

So in DDO they probably give the bats some uber to hit number meaning they succeed 95% of the time doing their small amount of damage.

[rimble]

So in DDO they probably give the bats some uber to hit number meaning they succeed 95% of the time doing their small amount of damage.

Ah, yes, the Incorporeal Touch Attack solution.