The Star of Helia

Yeah, exactly. I do everything on an iPod Touch. I downloaded the Google Slides app so I could move my token, but precision on this small screen is difficult. I tried to zoom in first, but even then I think I moved the map itself. I’m cool with just giving my grid coordinates when I post. Right now I only see the campfire and forest on Google Slides; none of the other tokens But I had placed (or intended to anyway) Kanyil’s sleeping token on "22r".

Feridir is up in the tree like last night

Did somebody moved the campfire again? I'm sure I put it somewhere around n-o 18-20...

Wasn't me, I swear! I just put Grapthor next to where I found the red dot.

Alright, anyway, I'll fix the map again, find a tree nearby to put Feridir in and we can continue...

Grogg, can you place Avante' please?

Just out of curiosity, what does it mean that Kanyil rolled a 9/10?

Initiative 9 with most weapons, Initiative 10 with daggers which grants +1 INI.

So just to clarify, if I use Fire Beam, I use my TSC of 12 for Fire spells, +1 for using staff and +1 as the spells SM, for a total of 14?

Yes.

Is it safe to assume that Kanyil, and the other three members who were sleeping, wake up after the orks’ surprise attack?

Is it safe to assume that Kanyil, and the other three members who were sleeping, wake up after the orks’ surprise attack?

There is a Wake Up check for that (fortunately for you, loud noise/combat grants a +8 to this check). A sleeping character also wakes up automatically if shaken, kicked, slapped, has water poured on them... or takes damage...

Not quote Gaz. So basically you roll your attack and the Orc’s Derence rolls, like you did. If your attack roll is successful, the number you rolled is how much total damage you did. If the Orc’s Defense roll was also successful, then their roll is how much damage they defended and is subtracted from your damage.

So in this case, you successfully rolled under your Ranged Attack CTN by rolling a 2. That means you will do 2 Damage. The Orc unsuccessfully rolled under their Defense CTN, so they didn’t defend against any of those two Hit Points of Damage.

The idea in combat is you want to roll as close to your Attack CTN as you can without going over, because your roll Result is also how much damage you do if successful. In your case, your character should hope to roll as close to 17 as possible, but not go over which would result in a fail. The only exception to this rule is rolling a natural "1". If you roll a natural "1" you rolled a "Coup". If you rolled a Coup, you immediately do maximum damage (in Feridir’s case, maximum damage is a 17, because that’s his Attack CTN), plus you get to roll another attack and if you roll under his CTN again, you add that damage to the 17 already applied. If you happen to roll another "1", same thing: another 17 Damage is added to the first 17, and you roll again. If you roll a Coup but fail your second attack roll, you Attack is still successful with the 17 Damage for your target to defend against.

So ideally you want to roll a natural "1" on any attack. Failing that, you want to roll as close to your CTN as possible without going over.

In your case, you did 2 Hit Points damage to the Orc. Plus you get a Slayer Point if the GM is using Slayer Points.

OK thnx, so rolling low is only usefull when rolling a 1 nice to know that, was hoping i did some damage but i just grazed the orc :(