How do things like stabilizing someone dying work?

The dying character, every round, rolls d% to see if they stabilize. Target number is 10%. Stabilizing means you stop dying and hold fast at the HP you're at. Failing means you lost a hit point and check again next round. At -10, the character is dead.

Other characters can also stabilize a dying character with a DC 15 Heal check. That stops the hit point loss and need to stabilize further. Other healing has other effects depending on the amount of healing. And there are guidelines for recovery otherwise.

In reply to Manann (msg # 41):

We'll have to kill these darn wolves quickly!!!

In reply to Abdur Rahman (msg # 42):

Let's do it

Sucks when your healer is the one down.

Totally. My POV: Every character should roll to try to at least stabilize. Heal doesn't require skill levels.

All the more rolls we can manage!

What does it take to break the battle madness?  I can get a post in quickly but wanted to see if I go off frothing at the mouth!  :)

You can end it prematurely voluntarily. So you turn it on and off -- you don't need to wait for it to end.

We might want to look up on how helping each other could help. I just switched to a new comp and haven't transferred my books yet.

Aid Another might prove helpful. A roll of 10+ results in +2 to someone's skill check.

We've got Fan-Hee stabilized.

I guess that's largely the end our first expedition as she'll be down and out for a few days at least.

Is that party consensus, then? Return to the fort? Do you plan to all stay at the fort while Fan-Hee heals up, or return down one comrade? Let me know what you're thinking.

Not knowing the game system deeply it seems like it may be days before Fan-Hee heals.  Is that accurate?

If we take her back and continue the adventure it leaves her out of things unless there is faster healing.

You'll have to go back to the fort to find out if there's faster healing there, but based on Fan-Hee's rolls, she'll become conscious but disabled and reach 0 HP in 18 hours (if back at the fort resting), and it'll then take two days of natural healing for her to be back to max HP. So roughly three days without other options.

This game is also really light in healing magic, even though there are spells for hire. So even before you're back at the fort, at the edge of civilization, I think it's reasonable to say that there is not magical or faster healing available.

(This game is relatively brutal. As this encounter demonstrates, there isn't really any care given to encounter balancing... that is by design and explicit in the text! "Allow the players to make their own decisions as to which foes they think they are capable of dealing with and which to avoid. ... There is no absolute way ... to gauge the exact difficulty faced by a party.")
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:24, Sat 22 Aug 2020.

I'll look into it a bit later but I'm wondering what tactical options are available as far as tanking or blocking for other members of the party? Doesn't seem marching order did anything to prevent a wolf from attacking each one of us. I vaguely recollect from other D20 games something about attacks of opportunity, so its not easy to just walk past or through enemies to get to vulnerable members. Not easy to use such mechanics without a battle map.

I'll be out for a few days on vacation.

Just a thought... if we head back to heal Fan-Hee likely we miss the entire encounter and investigation.  It seems are only choice if we want to continue with this adventure is to ditch Fan-Hee.  I can't imagine the baron being patient with us sitting around while she heals.

I'm looking for options but I just don't see them.

This was a tricky spot because it wasn't like you were in a hallway. The wolves basically attacked from both sides approaching from the woods... the party was making quite a bit of noise with the horse in the forest, moving slower than normal, etc. The party's perception rolls, though, at least avoided a surprise attack so you could ready actions.

Once engaged, the wolves never moved out of melee, so no opportunity attacks would have come into play. You're right, though, that RPOL is more theater of the mind than the tactical map of Roll20.

But the main thing here is that Conan D20 encounters aren't balanced for the party. They are what they are, and sometimes the best choice is to cut and run or avoid a fight -- which might have been challenging in this situation. So be warned: Some encounters might be above your pay grade.

The Hyborian Age has fewer safe points of light than D&D's Nentir Vale. I will be sure, though, to not play against the party. That's not fun for you, and it's not fun for me. I will be fair despite the threat level.

If Fan-Hee would like, whip up another character so you don't miss out on play while Fan-Hee heals. You can meet up with the group at the fort when they make a detour there and then continue on your way. You can always rejoin as Fan-Hee in almost three days. (Game days, not real days.)
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:49, Wed 26 Aug 2020.

FYI: Fan-Hee's rolling up a new character to play while she heals up. Please stand by. We'll begin anew soon.

In reply to Manann (msg # 57):

I appreciate the balanced assessment of the game and the encounters.  We'll certainly be more willing to run away if we can and it makes sense!  I can see we're not in the typical pathfinder game... :)

I've been adjusting to classes snce those started monday, will get caught up asap

Ok, done with the replacement. Meet Abbot. You know... the guy who scolds Fan-Hee all the time and is no fun at all.

In reply to Abbot (msg # 60):

Excellent!

So what is the plan? In hindsight it seems trying to follow native tracks through their home jungle to be a recipe for disaster on many levels. How else might we go about retrieving the payroll?

I have a couple of thoughts towards that ends.

Picts cant really have any need or use for the payroll. It is useless to use in trade among themselves or with other tribes. So this leaves two possibilities I can think of. They got it for someone else, or they are using it for bait because they know we the outsiders want it.

I think we lack a lot of other choices than following the track of the Picts.

Temperature check: Collective disinterest in continuing?