Door H

The DM: I have Lexent in 2228 and Vafrandir in 2127. I need to know where Marcule and Pandred are. Assume the movements you made with the chest have been done. I'm judging the chest has been moved off the map.

Pandred: I said I was on the door, so 2027 sounds right.

Lexent Alexis, would you object to me placing links to 'previous' pages (and 'next' ones where they don't exist) throughout the campaign?

The DM: Nope. I'm just lazy.

The DM: I’ll put Marcule in 2128. Action?

Pandred: I open H.

The DM: Immediately, the party hears the snap and the rattle of a hundred bone joints snapping into action. The image says it all. Apparently, they’ve been activated by the movement of the door.

The line of black dots are columns separating an anti-chamber from the barracks beyond. On first glance, you count seven skeletons. There are more.

Pandred: Door shut, door shut!

The DM: The door is shut, but let me remind you, these doors don’t latch and they open into the hall; not that secure.

Lexent So they just rest against the frames?

Vafrandir: Pandred, back up and let them come to us, if they will.

Pandred: My thought exactly. Trying to configure us to maximize our frontage and minimize theirs. Alexis, how do those half-hexes work? Can they be fought from/moved through? Is there a penalty?

P: Regardless I step into 2028.

The DM: Your actual size in the hex is exaggerated, to give the impression of the space you control. In actual size, you’re about 2 ft. in diameter, with clothes and armour and whatnot. The hex being 5 ft. in diameter, you can technically fight in a corner hex. However, an open door in the same hex is a -2 penalty, because your weapon’s swing will get hampered by the door’s presence.

P: I was thinking more in line with what would be 1927 and similar, where the space depicted is pretty much exactly 2 feet or so.

The DM: I’ll accept 1927.

Lexent Which probably means they could also move to and fight from such hexes.

The DM: As an afterthought, however, I don't believe 1927 can attack 1926; too slim a connection.

Pandred: I want to stay in 2028, I just wanted to know if that row of hexes was something I should be aware of for the skeletons.

Lexent I move to 2126.

The DM: Because of the distance between you, there’s no initiative to roll yet. I will roll initiative when the [first melee contact] occurs.