A Hero From Commoners: Part 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Yes

Unarmed attacks normally deal only subdual damage, meaning that the most you can do is knock the kobolds unconscious or cause them to faint. However, you can make them deal real, lethal damage by taking a -4 penalty to your attack roll.

Unarmed attack damage for a medium-sized creature is 1d3 (roll a 3-sided die once {one die three or 1d3} or take half of a 6-sided die rolled once), and for a small character, is only 1d2. Fortunately for you and your village, a kobold only has 1/2d8 hit dice, or on average, 2 hit points. If you have a Strength bonus, you will almost certainly down a kobold with one hit.

Answer: Falchion

The falchion has the highest chance of a critical threat with a 18-20/x2 (meaning a roll of 18, 19, or 20 on a 20-sided die will threaten a critical hit and possibly cause two times the damage). The battleaxe and longbow both have a critical of x3, meaning only a 20 on a 20-sided die will threaten a critical hit, but will do three times the damage if you do land one.

The dagger is only a 19-20/x2.

Answer: Track

Although Wilderness Lore and Intuit Direction sound like good options, they are skills and not feats. Intuit Direction allows you to determine where true North is; helpful, but not enough. Wilderness Lore would allow you to get along in the wild, gain bonuses to saving throws due to harsh weather, and avoid getting lost or natural hazards; again helpful, but not enough. Leadership allows you to attract loyal followers and subordinates who assist you. Only track allows you to follow the trails of creatures across most types of terrain.

A combination of all these skills and feats would probably be the best case scenario.

Answer: Move Silently and Hide

The ability to be stealthy includes making no noise (Move Silently) and being undetected (Hide). Appraise is used to help determine the relative value of items. Wilderness Lore will help in avoiding natural disasters, but not be stealthy. Scry does allow you to spy on somebody, but it requires a magical item, which being a fighter who recently did not own a weapon, is unlikely that you possess. Sense Motive allows you to tell when somebody is bluffing you, and if all goes well, will remain unnecessary.

Answer: Search and Disable Device

Search would have allowed you to notice the trap, and Disable Device would allow you to attempt to neutralize the trip wire. Perform is an ability to use a musical instrument. Concentration aids magic users in casting spells while their attention is being diverted.

Answer: It gets a +2 bonus on the attack roll, but suffers a -2 penalty to AC (Armor Class) for one round

Charging does not affect damage dealt in anyway. It does allow you to move twice as far in one turn as normal, but it does not cause you to be unable to act for the next round. The only requirement to charge is that you have at least a full movement and an attack left in that round. If a spear readied against a charge (i.e. if you had prepared against the kobolds charge while wielding a spear, trident or other piercing weapon), you would deal double damage to the kobold on your turn.

Answer: 14

To land a hit on the kobold you need to roll a number equivalent to the kobold's AC, which is 15. Seeing as you have a +1 base attack bonus, you only need to roll a 14.

Answer: Yes

A falchion deals 2d4 damage on a successful hit, while a kobold only has 1/2d8 (as you remember from before). At 0 hit points, the kobold is not dead, but it is disabled, allowing it only partial actions each round. Once below 0 hit points, the kobold is incapacitated. If you roll the max damage with your falchion, you can deal up to 8 hit points of damage, and even the strongest kobold only can have 4 hit points, easily putting the kobold under 0 hit points.

Answer: No

Although this rule tends to vary depending on the dungeon master, most players consider a character or a monster only dead when their hit points are equal to or less than -10. Damage of 6 hit points would be enough to lower the kobolds hit points to under 0, but not under -10. Until a character or monster has -10 hit points or less, they are simply considered dying and are unable to act.

The dying character does get a chance to stabilize, which will slow his death. This requires a d% roll, and the character/monster only gets a 10% chance to stabilize. Even stabilized, a character/monster usually needs outside healing to survive.

Answer: At least a number of rounds equal to your Constitution score

It is your Constitution score that determines the distance you can run, not your bonus or your Fortitude save (which is based on your Constitution). In addition, a running character who has run a number of rounds equal to his Constitution score, may make a Constitution check at a DC (Difficulty Class) of 10 to continue running. If he fails, he must stop running. If he succeeds, he has to check again next round, and the DC of the check is raised by 1 for each successful roll made to continue running.
***TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 2***