That's why Traveller never really had the same market share as D&D; there's no shared vision between all participants . Yet there are a few iterations of a Star Wars game as well as Star Trek. Even the Dresden Files books have their own game! Gamers want setting and story, game companies make a...

Wait...

Your players talk to each other in-character?

Some of mine do, but in the past most of them barely interact with me-as-npc.

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Edeldhur wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:03 pm Fair enough, but if we want to subdue them again, then we need to hit them (with subdual damage) for their hp total again?

The optional rules for subdual are now no longer being used.

Either strike to kill, or hope for a failed Morale Check.

The Rules Lawyering ends now.

Understood - so if their HP are reduced to 0 with non-lethal damage and they surrender, they are not actually damaged at all, and they can run away if they get a chance. Is that it? So if we chase them, how may points of damage will be needed to subdue them again? Their full hp again? See, that's t...

Ben curiosity and interests peaked moves into the cool looking control room "Hmm this almost looks to me like some sort of ship's console and control panels. But a ship like none I have seen. It can't be can it?" he trails off in though never saying what he meant to at the end of his stat...

Is Rosa still wearing her helmet? Rosa reaches forward with her free hand, holding her gun ready. She turns the knob and pushes the door open and in to its right... Beyond the door is a large room dominated by what can only be described as a control panel. The trio see a variegated array of knobs a...

In a lot of systems the subdual damage is real but not deadly, one becomes unconscious instead of dead. I assumed they were out. Re-reading my posts, I see the section I typed about the kobolds' subdual disappeared during an edit. In retrospect, I see Ellith's intent for a knockout... In the future...

Ellith (I realize the subdual rules in OSE simply state they surrender, but they have effectively been dealt enough damage to be dead/unconscious, right? So they are 'subdued' but they can still run away if we turn their attention from them for a split second? It is not as if we cowed them into sub...

Rex wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:25 am Myrrh

Myrrh rushes the nearest kobold and attacks with his sword.

VB Sword [1d20+1]=12+1=13 to hit [1d8+1]=4+1=5 damage

Myrrh runs Kobold #1 through with his sword.

That leaves a Big Kobold and a Small Kobold running down the tunnel. They are about 40' away from the western edge of melee.

“ By Clangleddin’s bushy beard, Brinna!” Gromp lunged in front of Brinna to defend the lass, as he swung sword and dagger at the smaller of the two kobolds. By Clangleddin’s Bushy Beard! [1d20+2]=3+2=5 Dagger [1d20]=14 Dagger dam [1d4+2]=4+2=6 Kobold #2 falls after being stabbed by Gromp's dagger.

The three strange companions approach the door.

It looks like a common interior door.

Brondulm Rising from the dead, sees that the two unguarded kobolds are running away and attempts to subdue for a second time the bigger to two (assuming he may be leader type). Using the flat of his short sword he attempts to hit the fleeing kobold in the back of the head: Short Sword to hit: [1d20...

Lia Moving to Brondulm, Lia returns her hammer to her belt and lays a hand on him, "May the bringer of life give her blessings unto you." Casting Cure Light Wounds: [1d6]=1+1 Brondulm is healed to almost perfect health. (Let's just give him 3, so he is fully healed to 5/5.) Kobolds' turn!...

Rorexsth "Well, that helped a lot." He walks over to the new door and uses his sonic screwdriver to lock it. Then he heads back to the dead end and fiddles with the fine tuning 2 SP before holding it up almost touching the wall and starts to slowly scan across it horizontally from one end...

Rosa I am good starting a scenario now. "I will try mentally commanding a door to open." She focuses for a moment on a door at the end of the hallway. The trio stare the end of the hallway, Rosa furrowing her brow in concentration. But nothing happens. When they turn to discuss what to do...

BaltoBruiser wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:02 am Brondulm

Do I recover the full 6 HP from the spell and go back to 2HP or since I was in negative territory, do I just get back to 1HP and return to the living? So much for trying to avoid the pointy end of the daggers.

Back to 2. Next time, watch the rear!

Yes, ass slap powers activate! Form of a momentarily impenetrable dwarf! Cinders is getting double-teamed? Then the big one! Time to break up that ménage a troi! Gromp Stoneskull slapped his left buttock as he lunged into the mass of kobolds. His sword M’Lady bit deep into the kobold attacking Cind...