Ch 3 (POCT)

Player's Option: Combat & Tactics

Chapter 3: The Battlefield
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The Battlefield
Does This Belong in My Campaign?
Battlefields
The Four Basic Battlefields Battlefield Characteristics
Terrain Types
Generating a Battlefield
Step One: Scale Step Two: Topography Step Three: Ground Cover and Water Step Four: Obstacles Step Five: Putting It All Together
Fighting in Unusual Conditions
Limited Visibility Water Climbing Aerial Combat Combat on Other Planes
The Effects of Magic on the Battlefield
Wizard Spells Priest Spells Magical Items

Ch 3: The Battlefield

• The Battlefield
  • Does This Belong in My Campaign?
• Battlefields
  • The Four Basic Battlefields
    • Dungeons or Caves
    • Town or Building
    • Outside
    • Castles or Fortifications
  • Battlefield Characteristics
    • Encounter Range
    • Lines of Fire
    • Cover and Concealment
    • Footing
    • Obstacles
    • Unusual Materials or Hazards
• Terrain Types
  • Badlands
  • Caves
  • Desert
  • Fields or Farmland
  • Forest, Heavy or Jungle
  • Forest, Light
  • Hills
  • Marsh
  • Mountains
  • Plains
  • Ships
  • Swamp
  • Taverns
  • Town Streets

• Generating a Battlefield
  • Step One: Scale
  • Step Two: Topography
    • Flat
    • Hilly
    • Broken
  • Slopes and Escarpments
  • Step Three: Ground Cover and Water
    • Clear
    • Thickets
    • Light Woods
    • Heavy Woods
    • Clear
    • Bog
    • Stream
    • Pond
  • Step Four: Obstacles
  • Step Five: Putting It All Together

• Fighting in Unusual Conditions
  • Limited Visibility
    • Moonlight or Moderate Fog or Rain
    • Starlight or Dense Fog or Heavy Rain
    • Total Darkness
  • Water
    • Weapon Restrictions
    • Vision
    • Movement
    • Fighting Underwater Monsters From the Surface
  • Climbing
    • Movement
    • Fighting
    • Fighting Flying Creatures
  • Aerial Combat
    • Initiative
    • Threatening
    • Movement
    • Attacks from Below
    • Attacks from Above
    • Unseating a Rider
  • Combat on Other Planes
    • Astral Combat
    • Ethereal Combat
• The Effects of Magic on the Battlefield
  • Wizard Spells
  • Priest Spells
  • Magical Items