Wenlan's Escape

Thanks, it's my first time GMing so that's great to hear :)

Great! May there be lots and lots of games to run for you!

On a sidenote if it is indeed your first time, I can tell you I usually run situational things like "finding a loaf of bread", "will the torch die in the wind" etc as Luck rolls regardless of the system. Can't remember how it's written in Cairn but I usually just do 1d6 [or any dice] and tell the player high is good or low is good depending on the system (low obviously for Cairn). That is to say I call Saves only when there is a danger - so if failure doesn't mean being caught I'd use a Luck roll or GM adjudication.

In these sorts of games the Abilities are standardly pretty low so rolling is for dangerous stuff.

This is not to argue, I'm fine with doing a DEX save. Its just an example, you may use it or not. You do you :) Thank you, I'll get back to the game.

That's good to keep in mind, there's things about Cairn I like and don't like so far so I may tweak things here and there.

Ouch on the rolls, at least Wenlan will have bread in prison (joking it's not that bad.... yet)

This isn't a combat situation yet, but Wenlan is close enough to get an attack off if she so chooses (which would be a STR save). Or she can attempt to get away (which would be a DEX save). Or anything else she feels like doing.

The guard appears to have a mace at his side, but isn't running with it in his hands. For armor they're just wearing a leather shirt, it's a younger guy perhaps eager to prove himself, but not as decorated as Galen (the person who brought you to Mara's place) was.

Cairn's combat has you roll a weapon die against the target's HP, which isn't health but "Hit Protection" and reflects how hard you are to hit. If the HP is reduced to zero, you begin taking STR damage and when STR is 0 your character dies. (Kind of the short version, I haven't really done a lot of combat in Cairn to be honest but I'm pretty sure that's it.

For now let's just do a STR save to see if Wenlan succeeds at cutting the hamstring, if she succeeds he'll go down and you can decide where to go from there. If it's a failure we can begin combat.