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Hello!  Getting started with a Hyperborean I'm intending to try and squeeze some swordsmanship and sorcery (both) into.  Perhaps some Summoning or Mesmerism brand Sorcery.  Though I am brand new to the Hero System, so if anyone has any recommendations and/or spots anything that could be better/mistakes on my sheet at any time ... I'm quite open to learning from more experienced players.

If anyone is open to a character tie-in from a would-be raider/mercenary/sorcerer type, toss me a PM!

Have a close read of the Character Creation Guidelines.  No Sorcery to start.  Divination skill is about as close as you can get.  The price for access to these abilities are, quite possibly, steep.

You may, however, have studied it.  Acheron was a sorcerous kingdom that predates the Hyborian age, being familiar with it's language would be helpful to study its writings.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:36, Mon 25 Mar 2019.

 Greetings,

 I am glad to be here. Amalric is a Nemedian Knight. I am new to the hero system.

Welcome aboard Amalric,

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

Asa new to Hero person, you likely do not have Hero Designer, so any questions you have, do you have the rules?, I am happy to answer.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:42, Mon 25 Mar 2019.

 I am already lost
 That plus I hate character building. Oh well.

Hehe, that's not uncommon for folk who are new to Hero System.  You're in luck, pretty sure several of our players like making characters.

Tell you what, why don't you post over in the character creation thread.  List a few features, ideas, whatever you have for your character and we can help you put something together.

Many thanks

I'm going to shoot to have the combat map ready and get post to start the battle out by this weekend (might be Sunday).

Going to try to make the map on Roll20 and then post it here so everyone can see their positions and that of their opponents.  We'll see how that goes...

Is anyone waiting on anything from me?

Just checking.

I've been thinking about whether we should all try to tie ourselves together as a group now, before starting, or stick with individual connections etc.

Well if nothing else you've all suffered side-by-side in the pit for a while now.  You may have stood up to other slaves, covered each other when the slave master or his slave drivers have been quick to deliver the whip or club.  Even if you haven't spoken none of you are completely strangers.

Course, couple of you may have arrived here together.  A few of you might be political prisoners; on the wrong side of a noble's wrath.  And others caught by authorities and sentenced justly.  The pit takes all kinds and cares little why.

Awesome! I keep all my maps on that site. The VTT tools are fine enough for most games, and they are easy to manage. I will have to look for a token for Sarajen. =)

Combat Map is up in Red Pit thread and game is ready to begin.

If you have not done so please update your character sheet under your Character Details.

Could I sell you on Oratory + PRE Attack?

Put some rolls and a call to action up by Ludvik.  If any situational/RP modifiers apply he might have passed the Oratory (otherwise fails by one).  Lots of potential modifiers to the PRE attack as well.

Let us hope that our fellow prisoners don't hang back and watch us get beat down and put back in chains.  Or worse.  8P

Absolutely

Uhm...

Amalric, one tweak, you're currently unarmed.  If you wish to use one of the manacles as an improvised weapon you'll need to take them from the slave driver holding the basket.  Fortunately, you have a deadly Brawling Maneuver called Kidney Blow that will do Killing Damage to your target.  I'm going to use that in the example here:

You must be adjacent to a target to be able to attack them in Hand-to-Hand.  You can share a Hex with a corpse.

To Attack roll: 11+5-2-3d6 to see if you roll over the guard's DCV
- that's 11 + your OCV of 5 - 2 OCV for the Kidney Blow maneuver on your character sheet - 3d6 random chance

Then roll for Location: 3d6
- consult the Location table in the References thread to see where you hit (link to a message in this game)

Finally roll: 1d6+1 to see how much damage you hit the slaver for (normally you'd do 1d6+1/2d6 but your STR is down by 3)
- Damage is divided into BODY & STUN
- Stun is just the total on all die modified by location hit
- Body for a killing attack is also the total rolled on all die.  For a normal attack it would be counted as 0 for every 1, 1 for every 2-5, 2 for every 6, total all that up

NOTE: Slavers are wearing thick leather on their chest, backs, a girdle and skirt.  It's meager armor, reducing damage by 2 PD in locations 9-14

If you want to start, we'll help your read the numbers.

Ok, I edited the post to reflect the new attack

 With the danger of sounding like an idiot, how does one get  11+5-2-3d6 into the RPOL dice bot?

Yeah, you can simplify, I just wanted to try to illustrate how I was calculating your attack roll.

In the Manual section at the top right, you can put: 14-3d6, 3d6, 1d6+1

That will roll your attack, hit location and damage.  We'll interpret results based on whether you hit or not and where.

Alternatively you can used the section to the left already set to 3d6 and just repeatedly roll it 3 times.  I just think the Manual way is faster and clearer for the Attack roll.  No extra calculations necessary.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:49, Sun 31 Mar 2019.