so, Erik Tenkar hates Rot Grubs.
Which is funny, because he's not opposed to sticking nests of giant centipedes in barricades, oh no.
I obviously use rot grubs, because I'm an evil GM.
Ask Hjalmarr.
Generally the thing about rot grubs is, they're a trap with a cure. Instead of rolling a resistance roll, and on a failure taking damage, you get attacked by burrowing grubs and either cure them (no damage), burn them out (take damage), or do nothing (and die.) It's just a trap with a different special effect. I can't get too upset about them. They're just a gross way to get attacked, like anything involved grubs, maggots, or flesh-eating worms (regular, or rotworms.) They're not more unfair that "save for half damage" types of attacks, where some nastiness occurs 100% of the time. In this case, it's just grub-based.
I'm fine with that.
It was extra funny, of course, because Hjalmarr was squeamish and hated all insects *before* the Rot Grub Incident. Of all people for that to happen to... One of the many indignities Hjalmarr suffered in one of his four lives.
ReplyDelete"They're not more unfair that "save for half damage" types of attacks, where some nastiness occurs 100% of the time."
ReplyDeleteI don't know... most "save for half" traps are 'one and done', this is a cyclic damage that will eventually kill† someone if they don't have a Cleansing spell available and can't employ fire within 18 seconds of infection.
It can take longer than that to remove armor...
† Unless a success on the HT roll stops the grubs completely, but it doesn't sound like it, it sounds like it just avoids damage that round and nothing actually stops the rot grubs but quickly applied fire, a Cleansing spell, or Esoteric Medicine.