Chapter 1: The Blind Phoenix

DeJoker, want to give a description of the place you're keeping the phoenix?

Just need you to send me a plot value in a note, and then we can have our first battle!

Oh sorry forgot and thought we might do a bit of civilized chat first we Japanese highly value politeness and all ;-)

Sure, have some lovely banter. DeJoker, feel free to roll the skill check, I already have Aegis' plot value.

Yes.

Okay if I understand this correctly --- I will be making an Attack Check and a Dodge Check this round and as such Aaron should also make a Dodge check -- I think making both in a post might help speed things up

However -- Aaron's Close Combat Ninpo is Hand-to-Hand and his Ranged Combat is Pyromancy -- and he is using both? You can only use one Attack Ninpo per Turn but as many Support Ninpo as you have (but only once per turn)

Now I thought I remembered reading that if you are in the same Plot Value you are automatically considered to be in Close Combat but I could not find that reference -- so I might be mistaken but I am pretty sure I read that somewhere in their material.

I bring this up because I kind of need to know what exactly I am defending against as well as to see if my memory is correct on the Plot Value thing.

Also since I was combing through the Guidelines I discovered an issue with my character that -- since it does not affecting thing thus far I have chosen to fix -- they strongly suggest that a character have at least two Attacks and I only had one --- so I am replacing the Plot Restriction (Barrier) with Ranged Combat Attack (Barrier) as that seemed to be the most logical choice. I hope that is okay.

Also, if you both don't mind declaring your action before rolling, so I can have a chance to add my modifier. Then, once I've commented, you can roll. Unless you don't mind if I add my modifier after your rolls. I wasn't planning to modify aaron's attack roll, so no worries about that one.

That's fine with me.

Okay so does that mean you are assigning your Pyromancy Skill to your Continuous Attack Ninpo as well as your Ranged Combat Attack Ninpo? Further you have a few other Ninpo that require Skills associated with them --- lastly you should remove you Ohgi but you have to assign a Skill to it as well.

Note -- Continuous Attack states you must use the same Ninpo you used on your first attack with the second attack. So technically you cannot do what you just did. I have no problems letting the roll stand as is since that makes no difference but you have to change your attack and that affects your description (aka the aesthetics mostly)

Oh and nice rolls by the way

I am just waiting for the GM to chime in on the effect of being within the same Plot Value -- as I said I thought I read that all combat taking place within the same Plot Value is automatically Close Combat Attacks

Good catches. I’m away from the book right now so I’ll do some more research.

I thought continuous attack was a skilless Ninpo that you just paid for under the right conditions. But if I have to assign it to something, it would be Investigate for narrative purposes. I’ll look into this and update my sheet if necessary.

I believe you’re right about my misuse of Continuous attack so I’ll update it to be another hand to hand and let the roll stand. Thanks!