The Ninth Adventure

[kipper]

Dame Simonetta launches a stone from her readied sling.

[rredmond]

Noh adds a slung stone to the attack!

[acodispo]

Willie: "We don't want to fight that up close until we know more about it! If it gets too close, retreat!"

Willie will add his sling to the volley.

[mgtremaine]

Kiplyn will pull back behind the line of slingers. Having torch in hand there is little else he can do but stand ready.

[dtspurrier]

Seeing bilfur has a lit torch he will use this as a melee weapon once the slingers volley their shots and if the thing moves into melee range. Bilfur is no fighter

[mushgnome]

OOC: I think it's a good plan! The slingers have pretty good odds of dropping the carrion crawler before it can reach melee range. The +1 'close range' bonus will be in effect. Hobbets have the racial ability to sling a stone up to 15". I may have slightly misruled this earlier, but in Delving Deeper system, 15" breaks down to range increments Close/Medium/Maximum = 5"/10"/15" = +1/0/-4.

(Most underground battles within the 30' radius of torchlight or lanternlight are considered 'close' range.)

[Bastet1002]

Robur fires his sling with as much gusto (and accuracy) as he can muster!

[coffee]

Wilbur fires a rock also.

[ehiker133]

Dougal likewise wings a sling stone at the crawler.

[mushgnome]

(Original illustration of the Carrion Crawler, from 1976's Greyhawk Supplement. Drawing is unsigned but believed to be the work of Dave Arneson.)