Jazzdrummer wrote:Hi Malcadon,
I know this is an extremely old thread so I hope you get my post. I wanted to try some of your houserules but I had question concerning sneaking and sneak attack (without cards)...
-The first part says "if the thief is alone and encounters a monster..." Does this mean that the thief needs to be out of line of sight of the monster before trying to stealth? Can thief's own party members be with him when he tries to stealth?
-When attacking a monster that is engaged with another hero, does the thief need to make a Dexterity feat check every time he wants to use sneak attack? Or does it only work on the first attack?
Thanks. Hope you get this.
The basic idea is to have the Thief move ahead of the party to scout around, and for Solo Adventures, the Thief can survive by avoiding combat encounters with stealth. It is assumed that newly encountered monsters would remain "inactive" if they do not "see" a hero -- that is, an "inactive" monster would be eating stuff, gambling around a table, debating which Orc chick got the nicest ass, or just standing there staring at the walls like the props that they are, until same Hero comes along.
How the rules work, the player should declare "sneaking" as an action, and to make the situation uncertain, the Dragon Master should roll the die behind the screen, instead of the player. On that turn, the player acts as though the character is invisible and that any newly encountered monster would remain inactive. If the roll succeeded, monsters without
True Seeing will ignore the Thief, otherwise, the monsters would see and react to the Thief once its their turn to act. As a Dragon Master, you could rule that external sounds, like fighting in another room, could activate an inactive the monster, ether leaving the Thief's fate to the monster, or have the monster continue to ignore the Thief to get to the fighting.
I hope that clarified things.
This rule is experimental and I cant remember what we did to make it work, if it did workout at all -- my notes are a mess!