Re: [HoE] Balance of Power(spoiler marshals only)

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>Yep when a bad guy goes down (in the weird west book) on a 1 he comes back.

Again, if someone could point out the appropriate section?  Apparently it's 
not in the HoE stuff (a curious omission if it's in Weird West/Deadlands)...

>To cut a long story short my posse were in a house and the undead turned 
>off
>the generator. my posse seem to forget little things like torches. if you
>attack from surprise you can give your extras a little head start, like i
>said earlier just fudge things like stun checks to keep the excitement 
>going
>or the game just tends to devolve into a posse of gods, and the game will
>lose its edge.
>                     deadlander

Hmmm, attack-from-surprise is pretty much controlled by whether the Posse 
makes its Cognition checks.  I'm not big on arbitrary surprise (or arbitrary 
TN modifiers) anyway (except for those creatures listed as having the 
Surprise ability, of course - heh), but it's pretty hard to fudge surprise 
rolls when A) the Posse typically makes them, or B) they know the target 
number is a base 5.

Ditto for stun checks.  Granted, the Marshal makes them rather than the 
Posse, but it's pretty hard to fudge them when the TNs are pretty hard after 
even 2-3 Wounds inflicted (or 12-18 damage using the simplified system).

The one thing I've considered is tossing out the stun rolls for simplified 
NPCs anyway.  They tend to be the first thing I forget anyway in the heat of 
combat and juggling 10+ NPCs.  The NPCs are already -1 - -5 anyway due to 
psuedo-Wound infliction.

Thoughts?

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Steve Crow

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