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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mtdesing" data-source="post: 5539656" data-attributes="member: 80043">Spider Two     Judah’s Journal     The first spider posed little threat, and I dispatched with it quickly. I felt my previous strength returning quickly, and I grew more confident by the minute that I’d be prepared for the larger challenges ahead…     In Play  This one is harder to track, as Judah is winding his way deeper into the woods. This requires a DR 8 tracking roll; Judah rolls and gets 12+3=15. He easily picks up its trail, and the referee will give him +1 to his intuition roll to notice the spider hiding. He gets into its webby abode, and it attempts to surprise him from above… for this encounter, I’m going to use static 7 for the spider for all things, and only Judah will roll. We’ll check out the difference in that dice option. Its stealth makes the spider DR 9 to notice before it attacks. Judah rolls 5+3+1=9, and he just barely notices the spider as it pounces. It’s time for sequence. The spider goes on 7, and Judah rolls 11+3=14; Judah goes first.     Round 1  Judah swings his sword, getting 6+4=10 to hit; the spider is DR 10 to strike, so Judah just barely hits the spider that landed next to him; for damage, he rolls 9+8=17 wounds, and the spider soaks 8; it suffers 9 wounds, and is now down to 16 wounds. The spider retaliates with a bite attack 10. Judah rolls to evade, getting 8+2=10. The spider hits by +0. Its bite deals 10 wounds, and Judah rolls to soak, getting 11+4=15; the spider fails to bite through his armor.     Round 2  Judah swings again, getting 7+4=11; the spider evades at 10, so Judah hits by +1. For damage, he rolls 7+8+1=16 wounds, and the spider soaks 8; the spider suffers 8 wounds, leaving it at 8 wounds and badly hurt. The spider attacks at 10, and Judah rolls to evade, getting 5+2=7; the spider hits by +3. The bite deals 10+3=13 wounds, and Judah rolls 11+4=15 to soak! Again, Judah totally absorbs the full impact of the bite.      Round 3  Judah strikes again (continuing to save his resolve for later), getting 3+4=7 to hit vs. the spider’s evade DR 10. He misses. The spider’s bite is rated at 10, and Judah rolls 8+2=10 to evade; the spider hits by +0. Judah rolls to soak its damage of 10, and gets 7+4=11. Again, he soaks the full damage.     Round 4  Judah wants to finish this thing; he rolls 8+4=12 vs. the DR 10 evade, and hits by +2. For damage, he rolls 5+8+2=15 wounds, and the spider soaks 8; he deals 7 wounds, and the spider still has 1 wound remaining! Judah still has all 3 resolve points banked, so he decides he can afford to spend 1 here (we’ll see if he’s right!), and adds his intuition +3 to damage, twisting the blade towards the creature’s heart. He kills it.     Judah earns 2 XP more for this challenge, leaving him at 4 XP.     Analysis:  The spider couldn’t land a hit on Judah. Judah’s comparatively high armor rating (+4), meant that he would have to roll a 5 or lower on the die for an attack at +0 margin of success to penetrate his armor. Conceivably, a pair of poor rolls (4 and 4) would have meant that the spider hit by +4 and dealt a total of 6 wounds; this is unlikely, but possible. Even if Judah rolled a pair of 2’s (very unlikely), the spider would only deal 10 wounds; and, Judah’s high might is going to allow him to soak the full poison on each pulse, on average. Judah is a tough fighter-type against a weaker foe; it’s not surprising that he pwns it like the newb it is.</blockquote>

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