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I must say this looks very interesting so far. I'll get a chance to try it out in a day or two, but until then I have a few quick questions. Right now they're limited to the Style Sheets and pertain to layout and requirements.
Court Sword - Can it be used with any weapon, or only a sword? Can you move between Lord's Punishment and Lord's Stance? Can you move from either back to Signature Strike?
Dagger-And-Wine - Any weapon or dagger only?
Free Sword - Any weapon or sword only? Can you move between Brutalize and Eviscerate? Can you move from either back to Slash?
Savage - Do I interpret that as "No Shield and Needs a weapon for Rampage and Fury Strike" or "No Shield or Weapon for Rampage and Fury Strike"?
I think I know the answer in most cases, but it never hurts to be sure...
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There are a few Variants mentioned on the pre-generated character sheets. Any chance we could get write-ups for those like you did for the sample creatures? That way we can try out the same combats using the different variants and see how things play out. The ones mentioned so far are...
Savage - Fyrajji Atrocity
Free Sword - Boarding party
Swashbuckler - Shoot And Taunt
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In Tower Assault are there any guidelines for how to break the inn up into areas? With only 15 rounds to stop the ceremony it seems that even breaking it down to the absolute minimum makes it hard to succeed. If you consider the first floor, stairs, 2nd floor, , starirs, and roof as areas then you only have 3 rounds each to deal with the foes, and that's ignoring some of the cool parts of the setup like the hearth. I suppose with enough characters to run interference it's easier, but 2 gaurds + 2 lions + 1 Druid + 2 acolytes seems like pretty stiff opposition. How many characters was this designed for?
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Hi Keith! Welcome!
Gah! I totally forgot to explain the arrows. Thank you for pointing that out! (pun intended...sorry!) I guess it didn't come up in Free Sword because the arrows lead only to rebalancing maneuvers. Anyway, yep, the arrows are one-way only. So in Court Sword, once you commence to beating on your lessers with Lord's Stance or Lord's Punishment, you are committed to pressing that attack repeatedly, pounding your opponent's foolishness through his thick skull, or rebalancing. And nope, you can't transition from one to the other (or from Brutalize to Eviscerate in Free Sword, but you couldn't there anyway because those two both require rebalancing, that is, you can't even repeat them once). Those arrows are definitely going to have to be explained in v1.2 of the primer. And I'm checking the rulebook to make sure they're in there too. Thanks.
Weapons - You can use any melee weapon with any style unless it says "Requires polearm" or some such. The "Sword" and "Dagger" in the titles are merely slang or vernacular in the Kingdoms. Good question, though, since I did take the time to point out that "words have meaning." I'll have to clarify that the titles of the styles are simply what the people in the Kingdoms call the styles, not necessarily prescriptive.
Savage - No Shield means you can't ever carry a shield with the style (too bulky). Then there should be a semi-colon after that. Then "[requires]... weapon for Rampage, Fury Strike" means that you must have a weapon in hand to use Rampage or Fury Strike (but you can execute any other maneuver unarmed).
Variants on the pregen sheets: I will see what I can do. My initial thinking was to save them, but there are like five million other things that haven't been revealed yet, so I'm not quite sure why I was thinking that. :)
Tower Assault - Another great question. I had in mind four or five characters for that. We actually did it with three characters, but I ruled that Orson and the acolytes stopped the ceremony to focus on the intruders. Part of the reason I ruled that way was because the rogue popped up screaming about what he was going to do to Orson's pet cats if the druid didn't stop. I think the big thing, though, was that the party just dashed past the cats instead of stopping to deal with them.
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Thanks for the clarifications. The arrows make sense to work the way they do in Court Sword, and I totally forgot about the (r) in the Free Sword style sheet.
Some of the maneuvers will seem a bit odd with certain weapons (Eviscerate with a mace, etc) but i guess we'll get over it. Will there be Styles (or Grand Styles) that are tied only to certain weapons?
Savage works as I expected.
For the Tower Assault a GM could very easily make it difficult for the characters just by adding some areas to the scenario. For example, he could describe the first floor as having an area full of tables and benches between the door and the stairs, with the hearth at one end and a bar lined with stools on the other. While this would make for a fun battlefield the extra areas needed to traverse totally change the dynamics of the scenario. I suggest a little more guidance be given in the setup as GMs not versed well in the system (and most of us won't be) could frustrate the characters inadvertently.
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rkhigdon wrote:Some of the maneuvers will seem a bit odd with certain weapons (Eviscerate with a mace, etc) I was wondering about that myself, especially given the "Words have meaning" sidebar.
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Given the actual design of the mace... evisceration may not be completely out of the question. ^_~
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Meant to post this a couple days ago, but yeah, agreed on "Eviscerate." Although in this case the Rithite mace happens to be flanged and sharp. But no doubt something needs to be said here. I'll tweak it somehow. We'll see. Hm. Thanks.
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