I was just thinking that Harry had alot of Ash going on.  Which made me feel less bad about the rule call.  Ash does miss alot...

Maggie, on your turn next round, roll Agility or Strength (Your Choice) vs. the Oiler.

Per SW:Deluxe, Success on a roll to UnShake grants normal action. No need for a raise.

You still have an action.  Will update at normal late late night hour.

First, Martin...brilliant!  I really dig it.  Take a benny.

With your Hold action you can draw the bow and ready the arrow.  Then, Round Four Action fires it!  I'm not sure what the d10 was, but your d4 netting a 7 hits (No Raise).

Boo to the damage though!  On the other hand, the arrow's damage was not really the point!  Just as a reminder to everyone, you can benny re-roll all Damage rolls, per Blood and Guts Setting Rule.  But, again, the arrow is not really the point against a oil-man.  Its the Introduction of the FIRE.  Of course, you are also near fire...

*begins his rolls and GM-y stuff*

We all gonna die!

Hope not!  On the other hand, making new characters is fun!

As a side note, bad news Oilers got a Black Joker!  Good News is, per the Joker's Wild rule, everyone takes a Benny!  Yay!
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:55, Sun 23 Sept 2018.

In reply to Prospector (msg # 50):

The d10 was Martin's Agility die.

Yay! More Bennies!

Kelly don't think there is a fire in the back room Maggie smothered it with a mattress before she was attacked the second time :)

Yeah but there's obviously a fire in the other room, that's the one Kelly's worried about.  If it's so bright we can see it from in here, well...

Oh right didn't realise Martin was doing his own BBQ in there as well :)

Fair Player Knowledge Note:  The storm is not Insta-Death. Minutes out in it and you'll suffer....right down to your soul.  But, you can go into it.  Just be quick.

Sorry, Harry!

Dark again with the main room door closed.

Just waiting on Maggie and Kelly.

And a sense of direction...

If its helpful, we can drop out of official "rounds".  Just looking for a sense of direction.

Fighting the fire?  Running for the metal building?  Heading out into the storm to face Frank?  Headed out to climb over the wall and say hell with this?  Some other idea that will totally surprise me?

Any questions or information needed?  Let me know!
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:43, Thu 27 Sept 2018.

Sorry was waiting for my snake to come back to see if the area was clear in case fighting the fire wasn't an option and we needed to run for the metal building didn't want to step outside into a horde of the things :)

Lol you put your post up just as I was posting so just revised my post to take into account the snakes return

Just FYI, I'll be out of contact from Sept. 30 to Oct 7th due to travel.

Thanks for the heads up, Martin.  I hope it is a good sort of travel need.

To check, the "plan" is Kelly will try to hold off Frank while the others head for the shelter.  Harry to use his "key" to make a way in.

If that is the case, we head into the storm tomorrow!

Don't forget Maggie has already opened the door at the beginning of the adventure the held it closed with vines

Perhaps it's just as easy for Maggie to dispell the vines to let us in rather than damaging the doors so much that we'd not be able to secure them

Well, did you open the door, or just blast a hole in it?

I'm not necessarily suggesting we rip that all the way open but my thought was the hole is likely not person sized, especially not Harry sized, and you'll probably have to figure out some method of ingress.

Harry, I gotta say I agree with you about the Chips.  I have been waffling on it. The Powers That Wrote It decided HoE used regular Bennies.  And their arguement is that it runs smoother for the style of play more common in HoE...  Which I don't quite get.

And the roller here is a punk at times.

So, quick vote!  If everyone here is okay with it, I'll port over some colored chips rules before we keep going.

As for the permanent fear stuff, yeah...well...  The world has gone to Hell. So there.  Some things are broke, can't be fixed.
This message was lightly edited by the GM at 22:08, Sat 29 Sept 2018.

It really depends on the game, but I find the Deadlands style bennies rule to work well in a lot of games personally.  I found it very weird by RAW HoE doesn't use them personally.

Also, Harry.  I'm not sure if this makes it better or worse, but Harrowed get +2 on Fear checks cuz...well...you're already dead.

Ah, yeah, I forgot that. Not that it helps any...I still fail.

The chip system would be cool, or maybe a version of the Extra Effort rules from Savage RIFTS.

So, I read Extra Effort as spending Bennies gets you two options.

Option One - Reroll after a roll

Option Two - Spend a Benny before the roll to add a d6.  Rerolling after is not allowed.

Is that right?
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:09, Sun 30 Sept 2018.

By RAW in Savage Rifts, yes

Borrowed some Chip rolling rules from a friendly GM.  Before your next rolls, roll to exchange your Bennies into Chips.  Then shoehorn them into your bio line Wh#R#B#.