MEGATHREAD: Post your small questions and concerns here for all editions!

[u/Cr0iz]

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[u/PuzzledFormation]

4e few rule questions

Hi hi!

Wanted to double check a few things! I just started dm'ing the oldenhaller contract revised for 4e and during some testing I ran into; Strike to Stun.

With it you dont take the called shot penalty to hit the head. Use that with a pummel weapon and you can somewhat/pretty reliably inflict a 'Stunned' condition with one more opposed Str/End test it seems.

To get rid of a said condition you roll a +0 Endurance check but with a -10 from the condition (which affects all your tests) at the end of the round or you take no actions?

This seemd widly powerfull to me so I feel I might be missing something here. As I can imagine a player might use a point of Resilience (or what the name was) to lose the condition. But an npc the players fight? Whats the way to deal with this? Can allies shake you out of it or something?

And for another question; Advantage, I use Up in Arms for group advantage. UiA says you gain an advantage when you win an opposed test you initiated. The Corerulebook adds that when you hit an enemy with an attack you gain an advantage. Do you get both incase you hit and thereby win the opposed test? So in what ways does UiA add and or subtract from the base advantage rules?

And when an opponent would win the melee test you initiated would it gain an advantage? I think yes, but since its not an opposed test they initiated I would think not?

And lastly; I know you can only deal damage when defending an opposed melee test when you score a double, but is the damage the same as your weapon? So X+SB+SL+critical table added wounds? Or just the critical table added wounds? Since you're not really attacking.

Sorry for the rambled writing not sure how else to ask these questions, any advice is appreciated. Me and the players are looooving the game so far! We're planning to get into the 'Enemy within' campaign after this and a few more smaller adventures (next up will be; 'If looks could kill')

[u/BackgammonSR → u/PuzzledFormation]

Strike to Stun: Yes Stunned condition is essentially a death sentence, but in my experience it doesn't end up happening too often (one of my PCs has Strike to Stun). Anyway, NPCs are there to die, right?

Advantage: No, you get 1 Advantage for hitting someone, not 2. Keep in mind you can also get Advantage in other ways, such as a successful tactical Perception test or something like that.

Correct, you do not gain Advantage for successfully defending, because you did not initiate that test.

When you cause a crit when defending, you only cause the damage the crit iself lists. You do not add Str or your weapon's damage. Note that there are Talents and Traits that allow you to cause damage while defending - which is nasty powerful.

[u/PuzzledFormation → u/BackgammonSR]

Thank you for taking the time!

One more thing about advantage then, do I simply disregard everything in the corebook that mentions it? Or are there exceptions?

Like gaining an advantage when you charge for instance?

[u/BackgammonSR → u/PuzzledFormation]

If you're using UiA, it entirely replaces the core book. However, the authors covered their rears with this sentence: "The GM is encouraged to hand out Advantage tokens as suits the circumstances."

Aka "do whatever you want". So if want to give some on charge, you can. I'll say that personally, I don't use the "seeding" rules much. It's just "whoever hits" or succeeds in another such test. And my players almost exclusively use Advantage every 4 points to attack again. Which is fine, it works. They get excited at attacking twice, and it's all about having fun.

[u/PuzzledFormation → u/BackgammonSR]

Great advice, thanks a bunch!