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Jan 22, 2022 15:59:35 GMT 1
Post by Laena Pyre on Jan 22, 2022 15:59:35 GMT 1
Putting a placeholder post together to plan out what I want to do at the Redwyne event, and I had a couple of questions:
1) How do we roll for Playing Politics, given that how much approval we have may vary wildly depending on how well *other people* roll in stage 5?
2) I'm away from books for now & the forseeable future. Can someone give me the rules for drinking (wine), please? I can never remember them.
3) 'Only disposition increase 1,3,6,10 etc beyond the first counts.' So, does this mean their second success would get a second +1 disposition, and the fourth a third?
4) 'Optional Awareness TN 9' on Flirtation. No specialisation (like Empathy)?
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Post by Father on Jan 22, 2022 16:35:53 GMT 1
1. Hmm, that one may need a revision to grant something else than approval.
2. -Any servings up to your Endurance rank doesn't count. -Each serving beyond this adds +1 Virulence (starting at 0) -For every four servings beyond twice the victim's endurance rank, reduce the virulence by 3 and increase the toxicity by 1 (House rule). -Wine: Starting toxicity=3 -Virulence is poison attack dice. -Toxicity is number of attacks made by poison.
So if Lady Drunkenlout with Endurance 3 is attending, then this happens: -First 3 drinks: Ignored. -Per drink after #3: Alcohol gains +1D attack. -Per every four drink after #6 (twice endurance): Alcohol loses -3D attack, but gains 1 roll. So 6 drinks: 3x3D vs passive endurance resilience: -1D per DoS. 9 drinks: 3x6D 10 drinks: 4x4D
For Endurance 2, it would be: First 2 drinks: Ignored. 4 drinks: 3x2D 7 drinks: 3x5D 8 drinks: 4x3D
3. Yes
4. Empathy definitely should be there.
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Post by Davos Dayne on Jan 23, 2022 1:05:21 GMT 1
Some additional detail regarding the alcohol rules:
You take your first 'attack' 5 minutes after your last drink, so in this event right before phase 3. You then take the subsequent attacks at 1 hour intervals, so if you do not exceed the base Toxicity 3 threshold, you will be 'attacked' prior to Phases 3, 4, and 5.
Each DoS applies a -1D to all tests (except chance tests, I presume). You get a +3 to Endurance and Will tests (not passive) after the first 'attack', regardless of it's DoS.
If your penalty dice equal your Endurance, you pass out for 1d6 hours. Note that this does not stop additional attacks. If your penalty dice triple your Endurance, you die.
If you do not die, your penalty dice reduce at the rate of 1 per hour after the last attack, so (assuming the base 3 attacks) prior to stages 6 and 7.
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Jan 23, 2022 11:58:46 GMT 1
Post by Father on Jan 23, 2022 11:58:46 GMT 1
Chance is technically not a test a PC makes, so yeah, pretty much how it would work.
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Jan 31, 2022 8:14:17 GMT 1
Post by Robyn Redwolf on Jan 31, 2022 8:14:17 GMT 1
Question! About fatigue: does spending one to Ignore a Wound cover the whole turn? Does Ignoring AP also include that affecting movement?
And can the Knockdown Action be used against a horse?
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Jan 31, 2022 8:30:42 GMT 1
Post by Father on Jan 31, 2022 8:30:42 GMT 1
Ignoring wound covers hole turn (But just the one wound). Ignoring AP doesn't affect movement since that's bulk. Knockdown vs horse doesn't seem reasonable.
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Feb 4, 2022 0:01:06 GMT 1
Post by Laena Pyre on Feb 4, 2022 0:01:06 GMT 1
Probably unwise to do, but: Can you combine these in a single turn? So, for 2 Frustration, get +2D and +1 Influence/DoS?
Edit: a couple more questions that occurred to me overnight:
2) By the RAW, if you succeed on a Charm Intrigue, you get +1D to all 'Deception and Persuasion tests'. Logically, then, you can use it on the Deception (act) start of Intrigue move, but not the other 3. Is that correct?
3) Because I am no longer the only single female PC, this is now not only of personal interest: do the Footlys have any other children than Wenda, and is Ser Selmond married? 'No' seems to be the answer to both according to the cast of Thousands, but maybe they were 'too irrelevant to be mentioned' before now.
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Feb 4, 2022 15:35:40 GMT 1
Post by Laena Pyre on Feb 4, 2022 15:35:40 GMT 1
Double post, as this is a completely unrelated matter. "She is confined to the sept[...] Want to be clear on something: Wenda is confined to the sept, but others could potentially enter and leave, so long as they're not bringing in obvious escape equipment? Or at least, 2 dragons and their escort could do so? (Edit: or two 'Septas', maybe?) Would she be alone, or would family be with her? I'm just wondering how plausible suggesting simply going to her, praying with her, (drinking wine with her?), making her final hours more tolerable is. As a compromise less likely to get a sister I rather like executed alongside Wenda. Additional question: if Wenda were to (say) commit suicide by sweetsleep some time after we left, how likely is it that we would be blamed? Also, I can't remember how the faith sees suicide? Like, are you more damned if you kill yourself than if you're executed for murder? Just mulling options at the moment, trying to balance keeping sister alive vs generating Oakheart animosity.
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Post by Father on Feb 4, 2022 20:59:29 GMT 1
Hmm, not the biggest fan of stacking bonuses on top of each other when the system breaks apart with too many dices thrown around, although that is mitigated by being vulnerable to retaliation and the general tendency to measure frustration vs frustration to determine how big the victory was in the end. And nothing in the rules saying you can't do it.
I am not entirely sure what the bold part means? +1D on all Deception and Persuasion tests still means all deception/persuasion tests, not sure if I like that +1D carrying over, but as long as it's there, it's there.
If Wenda didn't have a brother, she'd be noted as the heir to House Footly (if an older sister was heir, that would probably be deemed interesting enough to have her listed, maybe not if she was married with children). The Principal Bannermen generally do not have that much larger families, and the less noteworthy ones usually have masters of arms and captains of guards and maesters, I'm just too lazy to give names to another few hundred unremarkable people with off-the shelf secondary NPC templates.
Technically, "The Sept" is just a room with a shrine in the Gatehouse (An idea I just snatched from searching for castle chapels on wikipedia today), most likely her family would be allowed to stay with her, and one can assume that they will be, most mother's aren't cold hearted (literal) bastards. Laena intruding may or may not be allowed/approved of.
If I'm going to make a snap judgement about what The Seven thinks of suicide, it seems a watered down version of Catholicism which abhors it, and religion generally frowns on suicide as in "giving up the will to carry on" as opposed to "giving up your life for a cause", and probably frowned upon in a culture that values courage, so it would probably be viewed rather negatively and everyone would agree that it's a cowards way out, a proper lady would walk up that scaffold, place her head on the block and face death with dignity. Although one isn't very like to bother to investigate the "murder" or "potential assisted suicide" when she is scheduled for execution at noon anyway. I can't remember any instances from the books to go by (other than dry maester treatment in Fire&Blood and such).
Methinks perhaps it could be compared to homosexuality, which is seen as unmanly and can get you looked down on and mocked for in the books, so it's not without stigma, but The Faith tolerates it just fine.
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Feb 4, 2022 21:17:47 GMT 1
Post by Laena Pyre on Feb 4, 2022 21:17:47 GMT 1
I am not entirely sure what the bold part means? I'm referring to the 4 start of intrigue moves?
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Post by Father on Feb 4, 2022 22:04:13 GMT 1
Ah, neither of them are Persuasion/Deception tests, so wouldn't apply, no.
Still thinking I'll add it to the list of potential tweaks because of the book-keeping required. Dispositions I track in my spreadsheet. And I have my little notes for all these plot effects (though some drop to the wayside since there's too many plot threads lying around for me to tie up all of them). But such bonuses I can't track.
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Feb 11, 2022 14:57:35 GMT 1
Post by Laena Pyre on Feb 11, 2022 14:57:35 GMT 1
Did some poking around, couldn't find answers, so random assortment of questions:
1) Can women (ladies especially) 'plead their bellies' to avoid execution? (In other words, have their execution (a) delayed until after childbirth or (b) put off entirely and they're given to the faith for life), since the child is innocent.
2) How is pregnancy determined? Simply by the swelling of the belly? Having been there twice, I would definitely know this. (Not relevant if the answer to (1) is 'no'.)
3) Westeros has a unified code of law (except in Dorne) thanks to Jaehaerys I. However, does it have 'common law' - meaning that one can point to prior 'cases' to add weight to an argument in the *interpretation* of the law. Just wondering if it's worth trying a Knowledge (Education) roll or something to see if I can recall a past instance where a powerful noble bent the law in order to *save* a beloved (female) relative from execution.
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Feb 11, 2022 17:02:30 GMT 1
Post by Father on Feb 11, 2022 17:02:30 GMT 1
I only know bits and pieces of how a woman actually would know when she's pregnant, stop of moon blood being the first sign probably.
It is probably not formalized, but finding her pregnant would put pressure on Lord Appleton to have her turned over to the faith.
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Feb 15, 2022 23:37:40 GMT 1
Post by Laena Pyre on Feb 15, 2022 23:37:40 GMT 1
-Time sensitive given the need to finalize jousting rosters, at some point likely decided by the time needed for Starlings to figure out how to attack their particular situation, the window for any efforts to Looks like the end of the sentence was cut off?
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Post by Father on Feb 16, 2022 11:22:46 GMT 1
No longer
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