> 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 commission. 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.
That's entirely up to the narrator you can do it ether way. If you do it
as a simple contest you have to decide what level of victory puts them
to sleep. You probably need at least a major victory. But again that is
up to you to decide. You could make it any victor level puts them to
sleep but that is quite powerful.
As an extended contest its simpler as you are just reducing AP as you
make them feel sleeper and sleeper. Any grievous wound caused can be
interpreted as them struggling to maintain concentration. Any victory
better than dazed = sleep
The only time it has happened in our game the healer put all her AP's
behind the spell [1W] against the Broo that was about to slice her and
won. Result one sleeping Broo.
> 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.
Well treat them as an unrelated action and use a simple contest to
resolve it. The main thing about this system is its flexibility.
> I also observe that it can be tricky for us neophytes to HW to
> balance
> contests. 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 swamped).
Were you using the -3 per extra opponent. So the first Broo would be
defended against using his full 5W, the next 2W, the third 19, by the
sixth attacker has a shot he is down to defending with a skill of 10 and
should be either getting worried or feeling down right heroic.
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