Joe travels the border in a cavalry unit. He has been in a number of skirmishes with invaders. His is one person of the 45 percent left of the original troop. He is skilled with light crossbow, long sword, and horse rider’s mace. Some of his ancestors are wood elves.

Human male, gray hair ( all his life his hair has been gray ), 5 feet 11 inches tall, 165 pounds.

Blesh Tor-Tek is a male human fighter 7/thief 7.

Leather +2, long sword +2/+3 vs. Evil, sling +2

Likes to hang out at the Inn, and listen to the adventurers’ stories told there. He doesn’t adventure.

In my campaign, if the to hit does hit the monster aimed at, I do nothing else except ask the player what they rolled for damage.

If it misses, I count off the number of characters/monsters in the line of fire.

Example: if there are 6 characters/monsters in the line of fire, I out loud and show the players, count off who gets what number of the d6.

Then I roll the d6 out in the open. If the original d20 result could hit the character/monster it is now going towards, the player who fired the bow/crossbow/spear toss, etc. rolls damage.

If it doesn’t hit, I RP it and say it whizzes past character so and so and just misses the monster going on behind the melee.

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The players, via their characters, also came up with a ceramic arrow cover, inside is a half vial of Holy Water. Great for firing at undead.

I charged their characters about 300-500 gp to work with the local ceramics shop and do the research for supplies, and a cost for the arrows I forget. Probably about 5 gp each. Their characters got the HW from the local Church.

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My players invented a small ceramic cover for Continual Light arrows. They need to light up an area beyond bullseye lantern range, they fire off an arrow, the ceramic breaks, and the distant area is now lit up with Continual Light. Their characters did their own casting of CL.

Of course, the corridors/rooms have to be high enough to get any distance.

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