RE: Sleep and other such magic in combat

From: Thom Baguley <t.s.baguley_at_...>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:41:58 +0000

> From: "Graham, Andrew" <agraham_at_...>
>> 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.

I'd probably use something like this:

marginal = drowsy/dazed (miss an action)

minor = sleepy (miss an action, -1 penalty on future actions)
minor = very sleepy (miss an action, 1/2x penalty on future actions)
major = asleep

complete = fast sleep

Note that they or others could use appropriate abilities to "heal" any of the sleepy outcomes. So "Alert 17" could be used as a simple ability test (at 16) to throw off the the sleepiness penalties.

Thom