Unseen Servants, green slime, skeletons, and Dodge questions

1) Does anyone see a problem with using an unseen servant to take 20
lbs worth of green slime off a ceiling and then carry it around to drop
whenever it would be convenient? I ruled it was ok. The slime does Con
damage, the servants don't have Con so they would not be harmed by the
slime. The unseen servants are force, I could see no reason to disallow
it.

2) It doesn't say under Green Slime if it needs to make an attack roll
or anything to hit, it just deals its damage and la de da thats it. I
had the characters make DC15 Spot checks to notice it. If they made it
they get DC15 Ref saves to avoid the glob dropping towards them. Sound
good or major screw up?

3) Does anyone see a problem with using unseen servants to carry 20 lbs
worth of water at a time, using no buckets or other carrying device? I
ruled it was ok.

4) Does anyone see 1 cubic foot of space really being able to hold 8
gallons of liquid? I mean picture a box on your desk in front of you,
it is 12" x 12" x 12". Now pour 8 gallons of milk into that box. Do you
see that box really holding 8 gallons? We ran into this tonight when
trying to determine how much water a gang of unseen servants could
remove from a flooded tunnel over a multi-hour span. The Create Water
spell says basically 1 cubic foot of water is about 8 gallons. Seems
way high to me but we went with it as the only viable starting point to
determine how much water the servants could really remove. In the end
they got most of it out then they left an animated troll skeleton in
the tunnel overnight with orders to continue draining the water (with a
bucket) and defend itself if attacked, which leads into my next
question...

5) How complicated of orders do you all think you can give an animated
skeleton? I allowed the priestess to tell it to continue scooping water
using a bucket, then walk to a predetermined location, dump the water,
return for another scoop... UNLESS attacked, in which case defend self,
then return to scooping. I allowed it as it didn't seem terribly
complicated. How would you all have ruled?

6) Dodge Feat: Can you only declare it once per turn, on your turn, or
since it says you can use it anytime you can use an action, and it
doesn't specify what sort of action, could you declare one opponent
your dodge, drop that opponent using a Full Attack, then since you
could use a Free action then declare the monsters buddy your dodge? I
ruled the intent of Dodge (in my opinion) was likely that you declare
one time per round, on your action, so you could not change it after
you have declared it that round.

webhed wrote:
> 1) Does anyone see a problem with using an unseen servant to take 20
> lbs worth of green slime off a ceiling and then carry it around to drop
> whenever it would be convenient? I ruled it was ok. The slime does Con
> damage, the servants don't have Con so they would not be harmed by the
> slime. The unseen servants are force, I could see no reason to disallow
> it.
>

Seems OK.

> 2) It doesn't say under Green Slime if it needs to make an attack roll
> or anything to hit, it just deals its damage and la de da thats it. I
> had the characters make DC15 Spot checks to notice it. If they made it
> they get DC15 Ref saves to avoid the glob dropping towards them. Sound
> good or major screw up?
>

When I last played it I made a spot check to see it, and whether it hit
or not was completely the result of that Spot check.

Of course, the Unseen Servant can't drop it *on* anyone as that is
clearly an attack, whether or not it takes an attack roll.


> 3) Does anyone see a problem with using unseen servants to carry 20 lbs
> worth of water at a time, using no buckets or other carrying device? I
> ruled it was ok.
>

Strikes me as a stretch for something shapeless.

> 4) Does anyone see 1 cubic foot of space really being able to hold 8
> gallons of liquid?

{snip}. There's a little under 7.5 gallons in a cubic foot.

Battery running out on laptop...

>
> 5) How complicated of orders do you all think you can give an animated
> skeleton? I allowed the priestess to tell it to continue scooping water
> using a bucket, then walk to a predetermined location, dump the water,
> return for another scoop... UNLESS attacked, in which case defend self,
> then return to scooping. I allowed it as it didn't seem terribly
> complicated. How would you all have ruled?
>
> 6) Dodge Feat: Can you only declare it once per turn, on your turn, or
> since it says you can use it anytime you can use an action, and it
> doesn't specify what sort of action, could you declare one opponent
> your dodge, drop that opponent using a Full Attack, then since you
> could use a Free action then declare the monsters buddy your dodge? I
> ruled the intent of Dodge (in my opinion) was likely that you declare
> one time per round, on your action, so you could not change it after
> you have declared it that round.