Siege Equipment

Started by scribjellydonut, April 27, 2009, 04:59:31 AM

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scribjellydonut

This may actually be in the server and I've just never seen it, but I was thinking how cool it would be if you could carry very heavy pieces of a siege equipment(you'd need strong people of course to do this) that you can then set down on the ground wherever you want.  Then someone with a good engineering skill could use the pieces and assemble the catapult on the spot(this would take some time, say 10 rounds-ish).  Then you have a mobile catapult.  I was thinking of how cool it would be to do this on the Stargazer quest where you storm a castle, to 'siege' the castle rather than everyone metagaming the back entrance and railroading 50+ goblins (which turns the castle into little more than an obstacle and framerate reducer)

Egon the Monkey

It does exist, DMs have on occasion provided "catapult kits" that can be activated to place a catapult on the ground. They weigh ~200lbs. They aren't available for general use though.