Preventig falling down

[Dragon20070]

I can deal with all sorts of negative effects through spells and abilities, but I absolutely don't know how to prevent the fall down to ground shaking.

I am at the 3rd chapter where there are rotten trees and specters. The rotten trees keep shaking the ground making most of my party members to fall down. This ability makes the fight impossible because everytime you have to get up and fight you get 3 or 4 attacks of opportunity and you lose all of your extra attacks.

Is there a way to prevent this? I wasn't able to find a spell or a strategy.
Thanks.

[hilburnashua]

I don't think there is any way to completely negate the attack for the entire party. If any of your characters had wings/flying that would make them immune to it as it is a ground effect ability. I think this is a reflex save attack so buff with heroism, prayer, and cat's grace and keep your low reflex save people back away from the trees. Cast displacement/greater invisibility on characters with low reflex saves if you have to have them up front in order to give them a high concealment chance.

They are trees so try burning them down ... literally. They should have a terrible reflex save and probably have vulnerability to fire.

[Dragon20070]

Originally posted by hilburnashua:

I don't think there is any way to completely negate the attack for the entire party. If any of your characters had wings/flying that would make them immune to it as it is a ground effect ability. I think this is a reflex save attack so buff with heroism, prayer, and cat's grace and keep your low reflex save people back away from the trees. Cast displacement/greater invisibility on characters with low reflex saves if you have to have them up front in order to give them a high concealment chance.

They are trees so try burning them down ... literally. They should have a terrible reflex save and probably have vulnerability to fire.

Thank you. I will try to buff their dex and reflexes.

I burn them, but they have lots of HP which means more than 3 rounds.

More the one means defeat so I guess I a have to fight them one by one by walking slowly. This could be a good strategy too.

[Duder]

Originally posted by hilburnashua:

I don't think there is any way to completely negate the attack for the entire party. If any of your characters had wings/flying that would make them immune to it as it is a ground effect ability. I think this is a reflex save attack so buff with heroism, prayer, and cat's grace and keep your low reflex save people back away from the trees. Cast displacement/greater invisibility on characters with low reflex saves if you have to have them up front in order to give them a high concealment chance.

They are trees so try burning them down ... literally. They should have a terrible reflex save and probably have vulnerability to fire.

There really should have been a spell for this.
Feather Step and Freedom of Movement could have helped with this but no.........
There should have also been a Mass Death Ward

[hilburnashua]

Originally posted by Duder:

Originally posted by hilburnashua:

I don't think there is any way to completely negate the attack for the entire party. If any of your characters had wings/flying that would make them immune to it as it is a ground effect ability. I think this is a reflex save attack so buff with heroism, prayer, and cat's grace and keep your low reflex save people back away from the trees. Cast displacement/greater invisibility on characters with low reflex saves if you have to have them up front in order to give them a high concealment chance.

They are trees so try burning them down ... literally. They should have a terrible reflex save and probably have vulnerability to fire.

There really should have been a spell for this.
Feather Step and Freedom of Movement could have helped with this but no.........
There should have also been a Mass Death Ward

Feather Step doesn't prevent ground effects from effecting you, it just lets you ignore difficult terrain. There is a 2nd level spell in tabletop called Air Step that would have completely negated this ability. But since this game doesn't have a third dimension none of levitate/fly/air walk spells were included.

Freedom of Movement is an incredibly powerful spell but it only prevents effects that prevent/restrict your movement. Getting knocked down does neither.

Mass Death Ward would be ... so broken, it's already an incredibly powerful spell.

I don't think there should be spells as a solution for every enemy ability. That makes the game boring.

[Duder]

Originally posted by hilburnashua:

Originally posted by Duder:

There really should have been a spell for this.
Feather Step and Freedom of Movement could have helped with this but no.........
There should have also been a Mass Death Ward

Feather Step doesn't prevent ground effects from effecting you, it just lets you ignore difficult terrain. There is a 2nd level spell in tabletop called Air Step that would have completely negated this ability. But since this game doesn't have a third dimension none of levitate/fly/air walk spells were included.

Freedom of Movement is an incredibly powerful spell but it only prevents effects that prevent/restrict your movement. Getting knocked down does neither.

Mass Death Ward would be ... so broken, it's already an incredibly powerful spell.

I don't think there should be spells as a solution for every enemy ability. That makes the game boring.

I know Feather Step and FOM don't help, but would have been nice
I don't know jack about the PnP spells, but one would think they exist. DnD had a bible of 5 or so books that were spells alone, I still have one. Many very obscure and complicated spells.
You're right would make things too easy, but there seems to be a counter for most everything else, and many aren't too apparent if you're not an expert.

[Dragon20070]

Thank you!!!