Spitting Fire Beetles

lordvan52681 · Post by **lordvan52681** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:42 pm

Just curious why Spitting Fire Beetles have half the CR of normal firs beetles when they are twice as hard....

lordvan52681 · Post by **lordvan52681** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:16 pm

another curiosity; why do driders in underdark appear as normal spiders? shouldnt they have the head & torso of a drow?

Elagneros · Post by **Elagneros** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:11 pm

Because the module was originally written with just NWN + SoU; the drider model appears in HotU. It would be nice to see it updated to the drider model (and that really shouldn't take long), but it's hardly critical.

Death Dealer1 · Post by **Death Dealer1** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:33 pm

because a drider can be any kind of cross from drow to spider even full on spider...what you see in the tunnels would be the full on spider driders that are cursed to live away from the city.

lordvan52681 · Post by **lordvan52681** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:03 pm

just wanted to point out that my initial question wasnt answered.

Elagneros · Post by **Elagneros** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:40 pm

lordvan52681 wrote:just wanted to point out that my initial question wasnt answered.

Because only noobs care about beetle XPs.

lordvan52681 · Post by **lordvan52681** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:44 pm

lol, noob characters you mean, and we all have noob characters =P

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:51 pm

True. Rats have a CR of 25 while spitting fire beetles have a CR of 0.13, not making much sense considering spitting fire beetles have about 3 times the Hp of rats. Just pointing that part out.

PeregrineV · Post by **PeregrineV** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:55 pm

Rats can disease you!!

lordvan52681 · Post by **lordvan52681** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:00 pm

only dire rats.

PeregrineV · Post by **PeregrineV** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:02 pm

Ah-ha. To a first level wizard, everything looks dire!

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:23 pm

my wizards normally lead the battles...

from low to high lvl...

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:59 pm

True, even low-level wizards get some ray of frosts in that work quite well against 2 hp rats (minimum 2 damage). A lot of resting of course, but lowbies must do that anyway to heal. On the plus side for wizzys, low-level melees must succeed a roll to hit while wizzys got no spell resistance to worry about.

Batlas · Post by **Batlas** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:20 pm

P. Fricebottle wrote:True, even low-level wizards get some ray of frosts in that work quite well against 2 hp rats (minimum 2 damage). A lot of resting of course, but lowbies must do that anyway to heal. On the plus side for wizzys, low-level melees must succeed a roll to hit while wizzys got no spell resistance to worry about.

Yes and let me tell you missing a rat or a chicken 6 or 7 times in a row isnt very fun! Bad rolls ftl

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:45 pm

on the upside wiz het 4 hp a lvl base while ftr 10

plus the ac diff...