LW multiplayer combat example

[skathros]

Could someone please give me an example of how combat works in the Lone Wolf Multiplayer Game Book. I'm just not grasping how it should flow. I get one on one combat, it's the all the rest that is leading to confusion.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

 

[phantomdoodler]

Here is how i think it runs (havnt run a game yet). Suppose we have two Kai Lords, Swift Fox (CS 17, EP 24) and Rune Dancer (CS 15, EP 27) against 3 Mountain Giaks (all CS 12, EP 14)

Round 1
Swift Fox has the higher CS, so rushes in to attack Mountain Giak 1 and Mountain Giak 2, since he is feeling brave. Swift Fox is now considered to be engage with two enemies, so he makes his first attack against Giak 1 (CR +5) and rolls a 0, inflicting 18 EP, killing it in one blow! Then he makes a second attack against Giak 2, who gets +2 CS because swift fox is engaged with one other enemy. This time he rolls a 5, which at CR +3, inflicts 9 EP, but he loses 2 EP (now down to 22).

Next Rune Dancer has a turn to act and so attacks Giak 3. With a CR of +3, she picks a 1, so inflicts 6 EP, but takes 3 EP (now reduced to 24).

Round 2
Now just 2 Giaks remain, 2 (EP 5 ) and 3 (EP 8 ). Swift Fox decides to attack 2 again, and can also reach Giak 3, who is engaged with Rune Dancer. His first attack is made at Giak 2, is made at CR 5 - he picks a 7, and inflicts 12 EP killing it out right. His second attack is made at CR +3, because this is the second enemy he is engaged with. unluckily, he picks a
1, so only inflicts 5 EP (Giak 3 now only has 3 EP though) but takes 4 EP himself (reduced to 18 EP).

Now Rune Dancer makes an attack, and since his enemy is also engaged with Swift Fox, may add +2 CS, so at CR +5 picks a 3, killing the Giak, but taking 3 EP in the process.

 

[Zipp Dementia]

Phantom Doodler's example is mostly right, but there are some places where it's wrong.

In the second round, Swift Fox could not again attack two enemies by his own decision, since you can only engage a second enemy when you are currently unengaged, and he still was engaged with a single giak.

To also show another way this combat could've gone, here's another example:

Suppose we have two Kai Lords, Swift Fox (CS 17, EP 24) and Rune Dancer (CS 15, EP 27) against 3 Mountain Giaks (all CS 12, EP 14)

Swift Fox, this time, decides to only attack one Giak. He rolls on a CR of +5 and the results are acted on. Now it's Rune Dancer's turn. This time, Rune Dance HAS to engage two enemies, since all enemies must be engaged at the end of a combative round (though keep in mind that, under no circumstances, may anyone, player or otherwise, be engaged by more than four opponents).

Now, if Swift Fox beats his Giak this turn, he could on his next turn decide to engage one of Rune Dancer's attackers, or both if he was feeling spunky.

 

[phantomdoodler]

thats what I get for jumping in without actually running a game! Thanks for correcting, clarifying. It seems pretty straight forward anyway- i imagine after a couple of fights, anyone would pick it up.

 

[Zipp Dementia]

The biggest problem is that such an example is not given in the book and the book makes it sound like enemies also pick targets, which would make the whole process very confusing and fairly broken.

Once you realize that enemies don't pick targets (outside of the requirement that all be engaged) things get easier.

To note: once you get the basics down, there's a lot you can do with the system. For instance, if you WANT an enemy to choose a target, you just say that such-and-such player has to face them.

For instance, again returning to our above Kai Lords, the GM might preface the giak encounter with the following:

"Three giaks leap out of the bushes. One of them, a bit larger than the rest, doesn't hesitate but rushes towards Swift Fox, brandishing a hand ax"

In this case, the GM might tell Swift Fox he has to engage that giak, though he's free to engage another one, as well, if he wishes.

 

[skathros]

Thanks guys! Very much appreciated!!!

I think it might have been better to up the page count (and price tag) in order to include a few combat examples. Or leave the adventure as a free d/l from the website.

 

[Keystonegamingsociety]

Well, here's a scenario.... if all enemies must be engaged what happens when six Giaks jump a single Kai Lord? What about when 12 Giaks attack 2 Kai Lords?

 

[beowuuf]

Then there is a press of bodies around the Kai Lord. The second a Kai Lord is unengaged, he is instantly swarmed. You'll always have four foes.