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FYI I'm out for the next four hours... Warcraft movie.

Let us know what it's like.

Necromancy and whatever the school of magic is that lets you blow things up.  The Karrns are big fans of that one as well.

Explaining Pepper: Oleg's order was issued under the duress of enemy influence; therefore it is an illegal order.  Oleg's capture makes Pepper the highest ranking soldier in the group (she view Mari as an asset with no rank).  Her team is compromised.  She will act in whatever feasible manner to the best of her judgement to neutralize the threat to her team and rescue them.

Wouldn't that make orders to surrender when your side had lost a battle always illegal?

Yes, to a guerrilla. 

For my own reference:

Clawfoot
Medium natural beast (mount, reptile)
Level 3 Skirmisher
XP 150
Initiative +6        Senses Perception +1
HP 46; Bloodied 23
AC 17; Fortitude 16, Reflex 16, Will 13
Speed 6
 Talons (standard, at-will)
+9 vs AC; 1d8+3 damage.
Clawfoot Charge (while mounted by a friendly rider of 3rd level or higher; at-will)  Mount
When a clawfoot's rider charges, both the clawfoot and the rider make melee basic attacks.
Medium Steed
A Medium creature can ride a clawfoot.
Alignment Unaligned        Languages -
Str 16 (+4)      Dex 16 (+4)      Wis 11 (+1)
Con 14 (+3)      Int 2 (-3)      Cha 6 (-1)

Dio, is Olegov going to want to try and do anything about Pepper at present?  I don't want to take the conversation too far ahead if so.

Anyone here read or played The Burning Wheel?

Quote from: Diogenes on June 11, 2016, 03:30:09 PM

FYI I'm out for the next four hours... Warcraft movie.

Let us know what it's like.

Overall, as a World of Warcraft player (and a Warcraft player long ago), I was happy to see many of the game's characters, its magic, its plots, and its setting brought to "life", and I think anybody who likes fantasy movies would enjoy it. Was it better than Lord of the Rings? No. Was is better than all of the D&D movies so far? Yeah, probably.

After reading The Burning Wheel, I felt that it was a player's dream and a GM's nightmare. In a heavily narrative-driven system, ironically two of the flaws The Burning Wheel suffers from are system complexity and a lack of setting material.

If you can get your hands on the Mouse Guard RPG--and your players are ok with roleplaying its tiny protagonists--I'd start there.  Mouse Guard is to TBW as D&D Red Box is to D&D PHB/DMG/MM/etc. And besides being TBW-lite, Mouse Guard has setting material and antagonists and a solid theme.

Tarravan has some plot for you guys, then we'll move along.  If you have any particular questions or checks for him or the other NPCs before he moves on, now's a good time   I'll be back on in a couple hours.

Wow, a journal. How very convenient

With all the Fallout 4 I've been playing lately, you're lucky it's not an audiotape for your pipboy.

If you were a bug, this would be a Dark Sun campaign.

Okay, obviously Mari and Val can escape okay, so long as we can get a window or the door open for Val to fly out through.  Getting out of manacles is ... Acrobatics, but that takes 5 minutes of uninterrupted effort apparently, or you can do it as a standard action at the cost of increasing the (hard) DC by 5.  Pepper could manage it if she got lucky, but that's it.  Astra's got decent STR, but breaking actual manacles is probably pretty difficult.  She can likely get the door open, at least?  And if she gets free, she should be able to drag someone out.

eta: I've also got Endurance trained; maybe I can use that to buy extra time, however that'd work in this situation?