Chapter 3: Thistletop

Running die is one of the few rolls that don't ace. I keep forgetting to turn off the RA option for it.

ah, gotcha.

Not quite all the way over, that would be 15' as mentioned above

This was as far as you could get.


The three of you must make Athletics roll to hold on to the rope (or since you are so close to the northern edge you can land on the ground).

One rope remains, and the remaining three people can shimmy across, but it will take time as you can only move at half pace. You can do it automatically, but must roll for Athletics to hold on if you are hit by an attack.

Sorry. I missed that you moved last round. Then the bridge would have broken last round with all of you in the middle of it. As it can't take the weight of 3 size 0 creatures (and Grimwulf is big enough to count as size 0)

I will allow Feather Fall by using your action card next round (weirdly since Savage Worlds don't have reactions it has to be cast ahead of time). It would be 6d10+6 falling damage, so theoretically survivable.

Shalelu and Grim both drew jokers, netting you all two bennies. There is 12" to climb up. It takes an Athletics check to climb and you move half your pace. If you take a -2 penalty to add your running die (though you only move half of its value).

I let the goblins act, because I can't forsee Grimwulf affecting that part from his current position. Saldrina would have had to have spent her card to feather fall Grimwulf. Otherwise you can all act. And I'll just move the goblin dogs to last in initiative.

Wess became shaken from the goblin's arrow last round and must make a Spirit check or spend a bennie to act.




GM Bennies: 0

Will update later. This posting took 10 times as long as I thought it would and I need to make an dentist apointment.

You don't have to spend a bennie to make the Spirit check, but if you fail the Spirit check you can spend a bennie to immediately stop being shaken. So if you spend your bennie you can act as normally. (in fact, you can do this between turns, so if you become Shaken and afraid of more attacks you can spend the bennie immediately to get rid of it).

I might be confusing things, I thought I had to spend the Benny to make the Spirit check immediately (instead of waiting for my turn, and risking more attacks, like you mentioned. You're saying spending the Benny is enough to remove Shaken? So it doesn't matter that I crit failed the roll?

Nope, you can spend a benny at any time to unshake.


I know this changed with the SWADE edition, unsure how exactly it was before SWADE though.

In Deluxe, you had to get a raise to fully unshake. Most gamers found that frustrating, as it could take a while before being able to do anything, so they shortened it to success only.