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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jezrael" data-source="post: 5058679" data-attributes="member: 1591">Combat: Your players need to understand that combat does not follow the D&D paradigm.Combat is about two things. Ambushing people and outnumbering people. It is not about charging in heroically and laying the righteous smackdown on the goblin patrol (well maybe if you're Bretonnian...maybe). It's about lying in wait and filling as many goblins as you can full of arrows from ambush. It's about picking off stragglers at 3-1, or 4-1, or even 5-1 odds. None of this "Everyone pick a separate goblin  then we charge in and fight them to the death" nonsense. You want your players to stack every advantage they can into a combat. Fate points can help them survive, but if they are too reckless they will burn through them like a hot knife through butter. You need to explain this to them point blank...do NOT assume they understand this. Make sure they say "Yes, we understand this."Smart enemies will try and generally follow the same rules: stick to groups, lay ambushes, etc. The less they follow these guidelines, the easier they will be to kill. They can still waste a PC with a lucky hit though. There is no real way to judge which encounter is going to lay the PCs out...it can happen in any encounter. The only thing keeping them from outright dying will be their own cautiousness and ingenuity and the occasional expenditure of Fate points.Money:Monsters don't tend to use money. Or their money is seen as something worthless or bad to the Empire and its 'allies'.Of the most common monsters:Beastmen/Chaos: Just like to kill things mainly, not much use for any kind of 'money' though you might find some valuable war trophies such as expensive weapons and such.Orks and Goblins: Use their own teeth as currrency; also again with the war trophies.Skaven: Use Warpstone. It's pretty much verboten in that it's solidified Chaos. Also it can mutate you, which makes you verboten.Humans have money though, then again humans also have pesky things like laws and courts and lynch mobs. Best not to kill someone unless you can prove (or 'prove') they were corrupted by Chaos or a traitor or something. And then someone with more power is going to want to seize all their wealth. A Church or Noble is sure to stick their nose in. Sure you might get away with some coin...but you aren't going to get Baron Vandergraaf's house, a full treasury, or all the horses in his stables when he's exposed as a secret Slaaneshi worshipper. You'll get whatever you can pocket without looking suspicious and a pat on the head. Elves probably won't stand for you rolling one of theirs...even a little. Dwarves? You want to take money from Dwarves? They might just start a war with the entire Empire to get it back. Honor or something, hard to hear them when they mumble through those beards. Crap, I think they just started a war with me over the beard comment.Bottom line: You probably won't get much money from killing people, unless someone hired you to kill those people or you can somehow make sure you end up with all the stuff they have after they die. Maybe you can forge their will or something.</blockquote>

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