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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marli" data-source="post: 5337273" data-attributes="member: 86402">its not really a properly numbered system.each encounter is given a number depend on the tactics of the creatures, this i tend to just guess at but im sure sombody could come up with a way of working it properly.each creature is give 1 pointeach non minion is given 1 pointeach level over target level is given 1 pointany "leader" creatures are given 1 point(creatures that appear to be incharge of the enemys)any cool combos are give 1 point(not per creature this point is lost if ANY of the creatures involved are lost)so an encounter of 5 minions 1 +3 lvl leaderleader 5 points(creature=1,non-minion=1,+3 levels=3)minions 1 points each.minion leader 2 points.total 11 pointsif a player rolls a 1 to hit they enemys get 1 pointif the enemy bloody a player they get 1 point(once per character per encounter)if they down a player they get 2 points.(yeah!!! dead)if a player gets up again they lose 1 point.(arrrh he isnt dead)if a player dies they get 2 points.(tide turning stuff)as another house rule if a player trys to do non fatal damage they also fail on a 2.if you set the break point to 4(about 30%) then they will never break as long as the big creature is about and even if you kill it not until they get down to 3-4 minionshowever if the party rolls 3 "1"s during the combat the enemy will fight to the death, in the belief that the party cant hit the side of a barn!its quite easy to keep track, just have  a line of tick boxes mark the break pointI tend to have a manover to escapable positions at break point, then fighting retreat, then panic and run.ive had fighting retreat turn around and push back.</blockquote>

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