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The following was sent from the Project Aon contact form From: Kayvohn Subject: Lone Wolf Book 4 (The Chasm of Doom) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Greetings once more. I've got a couple of suggestions about the fourth Lone Wolf book this time.
Upon searching the bandits at Paragraph 268 it says "Enough for 2 meals". I assume this is supposed to read "Enough food for 2 meals". There are also two keys. The text doesn't specify whether they're backpack or special items. I personally opted to have them as special items, since I've found keys before in earlier books which were special items.
During the siege of Ruanon I ended up fighting a single round of combat with a charging bandit horseman (Paragraph 333). My combat skill was so high from having the Somerswerd, weaponskill, a shield, and the silver helm from the Caverns of Kalte, that in that single round of combat, I reduced him from 28 endurance to 8.
He fell off his horse and I elected to continue fighting him (Paragraph 90) except now his combat skill was 17, and his endurance was 24. This left me wondering whether I should manually lower his endurance to take account of the grevious wound I'd already inflicted on him, or if Joe Dever was overriding the normal combat rules and saying that in the first round of combat, I'd only inflicted a 4 endurance point wound.
Cheers,
Kayvohn
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Aha!
The first one is definitely a mistake on our part. I've checked it against the book, and the word "food" is present in the original text. Whoops!
(ne) 04tcod 268: Enough for 2 Meals -> Enough food for 2 Meals [As reported by Kayvohn]
The keys are an odd one. If no other instruction is given, they should be carried as Backpack Items, as counter-intuitive as that seems. Maybe worth a footnote.
(ft) 04tcod 268: [Status of the Keys as Special Items of Backpack Items; as reported by Kayvohn]
The Bandit combat is problematic because you can engage him in combat without ever having attacked him while on horseback (cf. Section 311). If you have a web browser that supports SVG flowcharts, this link might be of interest:
http://www.projectaon.org/svg/04tcod.svgz
It is a flowchart of the book "The Chasm of Doom". We have flowcharts available for LW1-17 and GS1-4 right now, with more being added as we edit the book in question.
The best way to approach this would probably be to do something like the following:
That seems to be the best way to approach this, I think.
-- Simon Osborne