Blood trickles from the troll's wounds, but she lopes onwards without seeming to notice. Before Authiel can fire again she has reached Kurin.
[sblock=OOC]Authiel's opening volley does 10 damage total. I assume none of the rolls beat the Edge rating or had any Tengwars, or you'd have mentioned it, so no chance of a Piercing Blow.
Now your actions go in order from closest to farthest, so Kurin, Riggins and Hob, then Authiel.
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Kurin plants his feat and swings his mattock at the troll, but she's charging faster than he expects from her bulk. He's forced to step backwards to avoid her, ruining his swing.
[sblock=OOC]Kurin misses his target of 10 since he didn't spend any Hope.[/sblock]
Riggins darts forward, aiming his short sword at the troll, but it bounces off her thick hide. He quickly backs off before she can strike at him, ducking behind Hob's shield.
[sblock=OOC]Riggins misses his target of 13 - again, spending Hope would have let this hit. Hob defends.[/sblock]
Although the dwarf and hobbit's attacks were ineffectual, they distract the troll while Authiel's third arrow speeds over their heads and sinks into the her chest. She howls and snaps the end off with a quick swipe of one hand. She seems to have noticed this one!
[sblock=OOC]Authiel hits the target of 16 for 5 base damage from her bow. And since she rolled an Extraordinary success (2 Tengwars) she also gets to add twice her Damage rating of 5 - so that's another 15 damage total! That's almost half of its Endurance![/sblock]
With its other arm, the trollwife brings her club down overhand, directly onto Kurin's head. It rings off his helm and he staggers backwards. "Dumb dwarf," she growls. "Take yer pick back to yer mountain where you come from, leave swamps to us!"
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The troll's TN is 12 - 6 for Kurin's Forward stance plus his Parry of 6. It beats that by a mile. It actually rolled 27 - it gets to add its Attribute rating of 5 to all rolls of Favoured skills (unlike PC's, monsters just add their Attribute rating to all favoured rolls, and never to non-favoured rolls, without having to spend any points). And the Hatred of Dwarves characteristic means all its attack rolls are Favoured against Dwarves. (It's Club skill isn't normally favoured.)
Ok, it hit. And because it hit with a Tengwar, it gets to add its Attribute rating to damage. It's base damage rating with the Club is 6, so that's 6+5 = 11.
But wait! It also uses its Horrible Strength! After a successful hit, spend 1 Hate point to increase its damage by its Attribute rating again! So that's 6+5+5 = 16.
That will drop Kurin to 13 Endurance (from his current of 29), which is less than his current Fatigue of 19. That will make Kurin Weary, giving him a substantial penalty to all his rolls. How to avoid that? You've got 2 options:
Roll with the blow: you can step back, kneel, or let yourself be knocked down by the blow instead of taking the full force. Your Endurance loss is halved (rounding up). So that'd mean 8 damage, leaving you with 21 Endurance. But you'll lose your next turn as you recover your balance. You do this right now, instantly, as part of the attack.
You can also at any time spend your action to remove your helm. That will drop your Fatigue by 3 as long as you leave it off. But of course if the troll does a Piercing blow while you have your helm off, your defense against it will be less (you roll 4d+1 to resist with the helm, 4d without). That alone won't be enough to save you from being Weary here, but if you roll with this blow (losing your next turn) and then use the turn after that to take off your helm, you could eke a few more points out.
I'll update your sheet on the character server as if you took all the damage, but let me know if you want to roll with it instead and I'll adjust it.
Your turn again! Everyone can shift 1 stance closer or farther if they wish (except Kurin if he rolls with the blow - he loses his entire turn, including all movement, in that case), and then everybody acts in order of stance: Forward Stance, Open Stance, Defensive Stance, Rearward Stance. Don't forget the additional actions allowed with each stance.
Word of advice for Hobnob: you don't have to defend someone else in the Defensive Stance. You can defend anybody. Which is good if the troll rolls something that would barely hit 6+Parry in the Forward stance, and you're defending that person - suddenly she's attacking you with 12+Parry in the Defensive stance instead.
Also Kurin has 1 bonus die left.
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[sblock=Trollwife]
Attribute Level: 5
Endurance: 35 / 60
Hate: 6
Parry: 4
Armour: ?
Club: 3 (Damage: 6, Edge: ?, Injury: ?)
Crush: ? (Damage: ?, Edge: ?, Injury: ?)
Great Size: ?
Horrible Strength: After a successful hit, spend 1 Hate to add Attribute Level to Endurance damage.
Hatred (Dwarves): All Attacks are Favoured against Dwarves.
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