Re: OOC ~ The King's Hall
And now we come to a fight!
Drawn by the sight of a knight in armor, many of the pirates will come at Sir Gerod at once. However, they will be limited by the restrictions of fighting on or between ships, which will limit them to about two at a time.
Torah won't face this challenge initially unless she does something to make herself a focus of the pirate crew's ire. She will likely face a single opponent at a time.
Your throws will generally be Brawn + Arms or Brawling + any modifiers from armor, weapons, or other factors (location, morale, weather, etc.).
You will be making Opposed Resolutions against the pirates.
Depending on the actions you describe taking (or intending to take), I will apply appropriate modifiers. Most of the fighting will incur a -1 penalty due to the unsteadiness of fighting upon a ship deck (neither of you has earned your sea legs yet!).
Additional challenges, such as leaping across the gap between ships or climbing the rigging may further decrease your coins as the difficulties pile on.
Alternatively, using the environment to your advantage will give you positive modifiers - tumbling a barrel between you and your attacker, setting something on fire, attacking from higher ground, and so on. I encourage you to be creative and put on the Storyteller hat to improvise useful items you might reasonably expect to find aboard ship, worn/held by your allies/foes, etc., even if I didn't initially describe them being there.
Given that this is a large combat scene, there are three ways I currently see that we could handle this:
1. You describe your intended actions and wait for me to tell you what coins to throw. Given our slower pace, this could take longer.
2. You describe your intended actions as above, but at the end you may append your unmodified coin throw. Then I'll apply modifiers, either adding to (throwing on your behalf) or reducing your coins thrown ("deleting" your throw results one by one, beginning from the last coin thrown and working backward).
3. I could perform all of your coin throws on your behalf.
The last two options seem like they would be faster, but I want to allow you as much sense of agency as you would like. It's fun to roll the dice!
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:41, Tue 27 Apr 2021.