Scene 1 - And the gunslingers followed...

PC initiative order is scored simply as either 'before enemy' or 'after enemy' on the basis of whether you pass or fail the WIS attribute test.

So far Mattie, Oscar, Henry, and your hosts have all rolled WIS and have passed the test, so go before Bad Monkey. Rose hasn't rolled yet, I'll roll for her tomorrow if she doesn't post today.

As this is PbP I'm just leaving everyone who passed to do their attack in what ever order you make your posts in. So Oscar went first, next could be aby of Mattie, Henry, or the hosts - and maybe also Rose.

So when you're ready to make your attack, you're welcome to just go ahead and make it.

Just ping me if you have any more rules questions.

I think the way it's intended is that you declare before the attack roll that you're going to use the feat, then roll your Doom die, and then roll for the attack.

For Quickdraw, my sense is that you would invoke that feat by declaring, before you do the initiative roll, that you want to use the feat - then you would roll your Doom die, and then if you hit, roll your Ammo die - which might then be downgraded if you roll 1 or 2 on it.

I'm checking with the author on that interpretation at the moment.

Happy to retro-fit this i.e. you roll now your Doom die (to see if it gets downgraded), and then you roll your Ammo die (because, as you say, you hit with 4+4), and Bad Monkey then takes that amount of damage and maybe your Ammo die gets downgraded.

You would then have your two actions - and assuming one of them is a gun attack, you could invoke a feat on that roll too. In which case, declare it before you do the attack roll and then roll your Doom die. Then do the attack.

Oh, totally - I only played the game once, in a one-shot, and have never run it before, so it's all very new to me.

The more you do stuff that invokes particular rules, the more we learn about the system together :)

What I understand you've not invoked "Quickdraw" retroactively, but have instead invoked "Fan the hammer" this turn.

Your two actions on this turn are then:

1. "Move" i.e. changing from NEARBY to FAR AWAY range ("Moving one range band is one action.")
2. Firing your gun at Bad Monkey

You roll the Doom die to allow you to invoke your The Way of the Gun feat, you rolled a 3, so your Doom die remains a d6 (would have become a d4 if you'd rolled 1 or 2).

You roll your Ammo with disadvantage and get a 2, so your Ammo die is downgraded from a d6 to a d4.

You roll a 4 on your attack roll, which is a success.

The thing I think you need to do differently is for the final roll - instead of rolling Ammo 1d6, the feat allows you to roll 3d6 for your damage, rather than 1d6.

My pleasure :)

Yes @Adrasthea, you are free to play. I'm not assigning turns, its just you are either before.or after the enemy. You passed the WIS initiative test, so i'm just waiting for everyone who passed it to take their turn, no particula order. And Mattie is the last PC to go before the enemy. So, yes, please take your turn.

On Mattie's attack, what's going on is:

1. Declare that you're going to use one of your "The Way of the Gun" feats, in this case "Deal in Lead" - doing this means you need to roll your Doom Die, which you do, and get a 4. As it's not 1 or 2, your Doom Die remains a d6, it doesn't get downgraded to a d4

2. Make your attack roll - this should be 1d20 with advantage (advantage because Bad Monkey is being held back by the big bear trap on its leg), an Attribute Test against your DEX i.e. 12, rather than the 1d6 you rolled.

Assuming you succeed in the attack roll, you then

3. use your Careful Shooter background to roll your Ammo Die with advantage - adding whatever your result is to your damage roll. You get a 4, so your Ammo die isn't downgraded (as it would be on a 1 or 2)

4. you roll your Damage Die (d6) and get 4 - which becomes total damage 12 because you add also your Ammo Die roll AND your Doom Die roll (via your Deal in Lead feat).


In summary - it's all good apart from the Attack Roll - please roll an Attribute Test against your DEX with advantage

Oh, I'm really sorry there, @DragonDweller62 - I mixed up the PC names - I meant Mattie in the above post. Very sorry for the confusion! You're exactly right in your understanding of the rules.

I just edited the post you refer to, to correct my mistake.

I'm waiting for @Adrasthea to roll Mattie's attack roll atm. After that, our hosts have their turns. Then it's Bad Monkey. Then it's Rose. AND I'll use the fire damage you just rolled when (...if...) Monkey gets their turn.

No problem, @Adrasthea! We're all learning here :) And yes no problem with that roll, it's a successful attack, we can see the two d20 rolls and both are successes.