terça-feira, 12 de novembro de 2019

The Castle and Surrounding Wilderness (WIP)

This map is still a rough sketch, it doesn't even have a proper scale yet, it just shows a couple of locations and where they are in relation to each other. 

Some of the locations already have names and they are presented either on the map or in the key below. 


  • Castle of Brumas
    • 101: Main Dungeon Entrance
  • Brumsburg
    • 201: Grey Tower and Bank
    • 202: One Eyed Unicorn Inn
    • 203: Stable
    • 204: Chapel
    • 205: Smith
    • 206: Emporium
    • 207: Well
    • 208: The Drunken Dwarf Tavern and Grill
    • 209: Witch's Shack 
  • Hermit's Woods
    • 301: Hermit's Hut
  • The Giant Landslide
    • 401: Orc Lair
    • 402: Cave 2
    • 403: Cave 3
    • 404: Cave 4
  • The Wetlands
    • 501: Swampy Tower

Chase Rules

There are basically 3 possible outcomes for any chase in the Dungeon:

 1: The player characters escape and reach safety
 2The player characters fail to escape and are caught or combat starts
 3The player characters fail to escape but the chase continues


Resolving a chase:
Each player rolls two d20s, adds their Dexterity modifier and subtracts the Encumbrance penalties: 
-2 for Dead Weight and -4 for Overweight
If you are Morbidly Encumbered you can't run until you drop something.
I'm using the Encumbrance Rules from Last Gasp for the penalties by the way.

Any result equal or greater than 10 is a success. With two successes the character escapes and reaches safety. With only one success the chase continues. With two failures the character is caught. 

Characters that succeed decide whether or not they wait for their companions that failed. 

The target number (10) can be modified according to the circumstances and the pursuers. One alternative is to use the Dexterity score of the pursuing monster to determine the target number, however thats ill advised for monsters with high scores like 16 or higher.

An additional penalty of -1 can be applied for each additional round of chase, to a maximum of -3.