Anyway, our stout-hearted heroes find themselves once again in combat
against the accursed Lunars. One of the members of the party is a
Chalana Arroy priestess, who decides to use her sleep feat to put
some
of the Lunars out of commision. Would this use of Sleep be considered
a
normal AP test (resulting in the loss and potential gain of AP's), or
would it be a simple contest, within the extended contest.
I understand much of the combat oriented magic to be primarily
augmentation in nature, and some (say the equivalent of the old
disruption) a normal "combat" action. But some like sleep or say
weapon
destroyer, just don't feel right (to me) being treated as normal
extended actions, resulting in loss and/or gain of AP's.
I also observe that it can be tricky for us neophites to HW to
balance
contests. I had a party that frontally assulted a broo stronghold
(which I thought was really stupid, 5 heroes versus 15 or so broos).
Well most of the heroes ended up on the short side, but the Humakt
warrior (and his follower) ended up slicing through the broos, ending
the combat with more AP's than they started! It's not that this is
bad, but not what I expected. The fact that the Humakti had 3/4 of a
mastery level up on the broo, resulted in this condition. Heck the
broos even had fetishes to give them more AP's, as well as all of
them
used an addition fetish to augment there combat edge.
Now there are many ways to overcome this, looking back
retrospectively.
I could have divided the broos up into groups, with one leader and
3-4
followers per group, with the leader having a higher combat skill,
for
example. Overall, it seems that if someone is up an effective mastery
level (even say 5W vs 18), the higher one will almost always win,
even
facing multiple opponents (unless one is completely swampped).
It is just so different than RQ, and other RPGs, I'm having a bit of difficulty adjusting. Any advice or comments.
Thanks
Bill Faulkner
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