Topic: Shadows over Bogenhafen RPG (out of character thread)

[Fandir Nightshade]

I would like to have a pair of duel pistols to kill people from far away....close combat is too personal for my liking.

[rufus sparkfire]

This is the scariest sewer ever.

Fantasy sewers are always full of monsters. It's a rule.

Anyhow can I take out my club and try to club it?

You didn't say that in your post in the thread! You can club it now though if you want.

I want a strength upgrade .Wonder if I can .

You need a new career for that. Or get Heinrich to teach you 'strike mighty blow' (+1 damage in combat). Or get a two-handed weapon, and the skill to use it (they do more damage).

[Fandir Nightshade]

Well I wanted to see how dangerous it is....and it seems it is incredible dangerous another round like that and I leg it.

[rufus sparkfire]

It's OK, you won! And only one guy died!

Blobs hate fire, apparently.

[rufus sparkfire]

Finlay and Cannon are kicking the squid-demon's cephalopodic arse!

[Fandir Nightshade]

Good to know....how common is the sight of an Blob in the Empire? I think Klaus never has seen one or even heard of things like that roaming the sewers under a city.

Well at least it was Boris and not me.

[rufus sparkfire]

I expect blobs are quite rare. It was an optional sewer encounter for this adventure! Maybe an alchemist poured too many potions down the drain and accidentally created an unnatural horror.

I've lost track of the timeline a bit, so I'm not sure if it's reasonable for the blob and demon fights to be occurring at the same time. Still, never mind!

[Fandir Nightshade]

I will wait for a response of Heinrich and Julian...otherwise I will back out of the sewer and assume them dead. Maybe someone else will join the fray once I tell them that Boris is dead and Max was no help at all. Max might speak up of my bravery (and hopefully hasn´t seen that I pushed Boris towards the beast).

[rufus sparkfire]

Gosh, they won! That was impressive.

Klaus should be OK to go meet up with them now. Try not to get Max killed on the way!

[Fandir Nightshade]

Wounded as he is the next stiff breeze might bring him down....if he dies nobody can blame me.

[rufus sparkfire]

Boris was totally your fault though! Better not try that on any actual people.

By the way, returning to the 'low combat adventure' claim: it wasn't actually necessary to kill the demon. Just seeing it and running away would have been fine. But congratulations anyway!


Also, Cannon: I hope you don't think I should have paused the combat until you said what you wanted to do. I just thought you'd left fairly clear instructions so I might as well carry on. I will wait in future if you'd prefer.

[Fandir Nightshade]

Well Boris could have fought himself free of the thing. Finding out that it can swallow people will bring the Empire forward immensly in fighting it.

[Finlay]

17 wounds! I think we were pretty lucky, two hits on either of us would have been a kill.

Heinrich is deadly accurate.


I think we should try and stick together in the future 1) to make fights easier 2) to avoid the exp problem.

[Cannonofdoom]

Also, Cannon: I hope you don't think I should have paused the combat until you said what you wanted to do. I just thought you'd left fairly clear instructions so I might as well carry on. I will wait in future if you'd prefer.

Not at all! That was great. Since I'm ambidextrous, can I fight with two weapons at once? Like my axe and knife together?

[Cannonofdoom]

Also, we kicked demon ass.

[rufus sparkfire]

Also, we kicked demon ass.

You did! And with only two of you!

I was wondering if I'd have to scale the demon's stats down a bit (17 wounds is a bit rough for two players), but then you killed it anyway. Making it fight through the door so it had a penalty to hit helped a lot.

I think we should try and stick together in the future 1) to make fights easier 2) to avoid the exp problem.

Good plan. But splitting up when investigating things in the town could be useful, so don't feel you need to stay together all the time.

Oh, and don't forget you all have fate points too. Think of them as extra lives - you can spend them to survive when you should have been killed.

Since I'm ambidextrous, can I fight with two weapons at once? Like my axe and knife together?

That would definitely make sense. I'll try to find that in the rules (there's no index so it's hard to find things).

[Fandir Nightshade]

Well Demons in the Empire things really ARE going down the drain.

[rufus sparkfire]

But it's dead so hurrah!

Also, maybe Boris did survive. Let's hope so.


Also also, it's experience points time again! It would be rude not to after such a dramatic sequence. Plus the book says to.

[Fandir Nightshade]

I raised my fellowship for fiending such great new friends (I hope Max`s family is rich!). I suggest he joins the pistoliers corps.

[rufus sparkfire]

Max needs a proper character sheet if he's hanging around! So I'm going to post one.

Regarding this:

Since I'm ambidextrous, can I fight with two weapons at once? Like my axe and knife together?

I found out that using a weapon 'wrong-handed' gives a -10 to WS, unless you are ambidextrous. From this, I'm inferring that anyone can use a second weapon in their off hand to gain another attack in combat, but will get -10 WS on that attack. Heinrich can do it with no penalty!

Also, I found out that nets can be used as shields in combat (which means 1 armour point on all locations), or used to entangle an enemy, or even thrown a short distance.

If you're using a bow however, putting it away/dropping it and taking out two weapons/weapon and shield or net will take longer than just taking out one weapon.


I'll put this stuff in the combat rules summary in the character sheet thread.

[Fandir Nightshade]

Go Max....my personal bodyguard.

[Cannonofdoom]

Is the "I" in my advancement scheme Initiative or Intelligence? I imagine Initiative, but I want to be sure.

[rufus sparkfire]

I = initiative
Int = intelligence

[Fandir Nightshade]

I am also very happy about the idea that I am on the good side of a lawyer to be....you never know when someone might falsly accuse you of something.

 

So.....we found a demon worshipper place lets find out who he is and blackmail him. Then after getting the money still turn him in. Now I feel kind of bad for Boris. What would have happened if Max got another wound?

[rufus sparkfire]

Now I feel kind of bad for Boris. What would have happened if Max got another wound?

You should feel bad for Boris!

Your wounds stat represents how many hits you can take before suffering serious damage. If Max had taken another wound, he would have been at zero wounds... at this point, any additional wounds are critical hits. You roll on a table to see the effect of the critical hit (% roll, and the number of wounds taken makes the effect worse - so if you were at one wound and took three more damage, that is a -2 critical hit, which is worse than a -1 critical hit).

There's a chart for each body location, and depending on the % roll you might get stunned, break a limb, lose a limb, start bleeding to death, actually die... there are a lot of graphic descriptions. Any serious injury will probably result in death within a short time, unless there's someone with the surgery skill on hand.


Also, I've put up Max's character sheet. He's awful at fighting!