How many pips for Mip?!

So:
Vidar - Guide
Orodil - Look-out
Mip - Look-out (Cook-out!)
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I got 2 in awareness
This message was lightly edited by the GM at 04:25, Mon 17 Jan 2022.

Galar has 1 in all those three skills so there should be better in the party.
This message was last updated by the GM at 04:26, Mon 17 Jan 2022.

Bottom roll rolled wrong, in that it did not roll the way I had entered it.

If I understand the system correctly, I roll 2D12 for a Favored Skill, a bonus 2D6 for spending 1 Hope and using Determined, and get a +1D6 for his boots.

Which would be:
D12: 4
D12: 8
6D6: 2, 1, 1, 6, 6, 5.
For a total of 29. an extraordinary success (same result if weary)
TN was supposed to be 17.

16:52, Today: Vidar son of Flar rolled a total of 35: an extraordinary success (same result if weary) using the The One Ring with a target of 14 with rolls of 8 (Feat Die), 2, 5, 6, 5, 6, 3.  Reroll of feat Die, ignore the D6.

16:52, Today: Vidar son of Flar rolled a total of 25: an extraordinary success (same result if weary) using the The One Ring with a target of 14 with rolls of 4 (Feat Die), 2, 1, 1, 6, 6, 5.  Travel, Favored Skill, spending 1 Hope, with Determined.

17:58, Yesterday: Orodil rolled a total of 9 (6 if weary): a failure using the The One Ring with a target of 16 with rolls of 6 (Feat Die), 3.  Shadow Test (Dread).


This message was last edited by the GM at 04:26, Mon 17 Jan 2022.

Dice Rolls:
• for Favoured rolls, yes, you roll the Feat die twice, and choose the best result of the two.
To do that, the easiest is to enter 0d6 in the "Manual" box.
The "Manual" box is to the right, on the top row:



I entered 0d6, and thus only rolled the Feat die:

05:14, Today: The Loremaster rolled a total of 3 (3 if weary): a failure using the The One Ring with a target of 14 ((3 (Feat Die))).

After that, you do your 'normal' roll (erase the 0d6 from Manual, and "Select" (on the left) how many d6 you have.

Then you can choose the best of the two Feat dice and raise the value of the 2nd roll if that one had the worst die.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the GM at 04:22, Mon 17 Jan 2022.

If I understand the system correctly, I roll 2D12 for a Favored Skill, a bonus 2D6 for spending 1 Hope and using Determined, and get a +1D6 for his boots.
Right! Seems good.
Just narrate how you are so determined and put your heart into doing a good job (Hope) and how your boots help! --> for an Extraordinary Success!

Which would be:
D12: 4
D12: 8
6D6: 2, 1, 1, 6, 6, 5.
For a total of 29. an extraordinary success (same result if weary)
TN was supposed to be 17.
Yes, sounds good. When rolling the roll twice, we've been using the first roll as the "extra/favoured" Feat die, and the 2nd as the main roll.
(but, as noted above, you can just roll a Feat die with 0d6).

Guide - Vidar (Extraordinary Success roller!)

Hunter - Galar (cannot just purchase food from the Pony?!)
Look-out - Aredhel & Mip (Elven eyes, and a Hobbit making sure no one steals the food!)
Scout - Orodil (seems like the best for this, even if you are better as Look-out?)

Is this okay for all? (we can change later too).

We will see if Homnir rejoins us-- he has 2 in Explore, so could go Scout and have Orodil go Hunter?
And then Galar could be Look-out as well?

I have Travel Favored, 3 ranks in Travel, and a map of the North that helps me get +1d in Travel.

I Also have 3 in Scan, and it's Favored
2 in Explore
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BUT HE CAN'T COOK!

Guide - Vidar
Hunter - Galar
Look-out - Aredhel & Mip
Scout - Orodil & Homnir
Let us go with that for now, and you can see if you wish to change (Homnir as Guide? etc.) in the future.

Normally, a Journey goes as follows:
1. Set Journey Path
2. Make Marching rolls
3. Ending the Journey
In this specific case"
1. no journey path to set, as you are following tracks
2. you/Vidar made an Extraordinary Success, meaning that any Event to be triggered occurs after you have arrived at the destination (it is counted in hexes, and your result triggers it at more hexes than you will be traveling), so no Events
3. with no Events, there is no Fatigue to calculate etc.
So: it is a short journey with a great Guide, and thus no impact from the journey itself
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Throw some meat on a fire, and roast it well.

Can I take a success with woe on the lore-roll?
Ha ha! Today, I thought - for the first time - what "woe" could I think of if Orodil asks for success w. woe!

Haha, not sure I like the sound of that...

Heh....made me think of one of the first adventures I ran had bridge with a sign next to it proclaiming it the 'Bridge of Woe'.  It had a troll underneath it that demanded a toll for passage.  Troll's name was 'Woe'.  I thought it was a good troll name;-).

Woe the Troll!

xD

re. Vidar's roll:
So, I will keep your roll-- but, a couple things:
1/ in general, you roll once it is your turn to act ; I don't know how we'll organize things to not spend too many days doing one by one-- but, normally, Forward go first, then Open, then Def', finally Rearward.
And, though normally Enemies go last, in this (rare) case, the Troll goes first since he is technically not the aggressor here ;
2/ you have to set a TN ("I forgot to set the TN to 1" !!! Wow, lot TN of 1!-- just joking, a typo...) but that TN is modified by the Enemy's Parry rating (Enemies get a +X Parry, so, if it is +2, the TN is your original TN +2) ;
3/ "spending 1 Hope, using the Fierce Distinctive Feature"-- you can spend Hope in a fight, but the Distinctive Features only work for Skill checks. So you only add 1 die from Hope.
In this case that would mean the roll is one die shorter?
9 (Feat Die), 5, 2, 4, 3, 4, 3 = 9 (Feat Die), 5, 2, 4, 3, 4
Also-- and I finally understand the rule correctly (I think!): since Balin is your Patron, if you spend a Fellowship point (instead of Hope point) you get to roll Favoured, in which case you roll the Feat die twice and keep the best (but it does not also count as a Hope point, you do not also add 1 die).
So, all in all, it will be: 1 Hope spent, for 9 (Feat Die), 5, 2, 4, 3, 4 = 27, vs. your TN + Troll's Parry (which will most hopefully for you be a hit-- because if the Troll has +12 or whatever Parry it it really OP!).
Mattock:
   Damage: 7
   Injury: 18
Note: can you players indicate if it is a Piercing Blow (for example, in this case, the Mattock is not Keen, so the 9 does not threaten and for the Troll to roll Protection vs. Injury-- correct?).

re. Galar's roll--
--again: it was not your turn to attack.
I will keep your roll, but if we do that, and you post your rolls ahead of time, to save time (?) and I keep them, then I will not let you change what you do if you wish to do something different when your turn to act arrives.
I'd rather you all decide on how you want to do things.

Also, as I asked, can you please indicate if your roll is a Piercing Blow (in this case, with a 10, it obviously is, but if you indicate it when it is vs. when it is not it will help with Keen & other things - spending Successed to make it Piercing etc.).

Galar-- I am sorry to ask if I am missing something obvious, but what makes the Valour roll favoured?

Barding racial ability which I don't have;-)  But two other PCs do...
This message was last edited by the player at 09:39, Mon 24 Jan 2022.

How many Fellowship points do we have?
Who thinks I should spend a Fellowship Point on Vidars' next attack roll?

@Galar - okay, that's what I meant, that you are a Man of Bree not a Barding. So it was a mistake or something, not a thing you have that I missed?
(there are no active Bardings, none in the Company)

@Vidar - I have the following under my avatar (to the left, here)
<---------

8 (8) Fellowship Points
5 (5) Eye Awareness

In parenthesis is the base value, and the first value is the current value, you are at right now.

So, the answer is: 8

Then:
Who thinks I should spend a Fellowship Point on Vidars' next attack roll?
If you spend a Fellowship Point in Combat you trigger Balin's 'special effect": your roll is Favored!
(contrary to what I maybe said before? It does not ALSO give you a +1d as if it were a Hope point ; Fellowship Points are either used to replenish Hope points OR to trigger these 'special effects').

You replenish Fellowship Points at the end of each gaming session (not each adventuring phase).
You are probably close to the end of a gaming session (after this fight and its aftermath I would say).
Thus, my feeling is that it would be very useful to use those Fellowship points in this fight...

I would say: go with it and use one to get a Favoured roll.
And we can see what people feel about this is to be used in general, a generic rule (I think that in PbP we don't want to wait a few days for all to say okay to use them).

Go for it!

I'd say everyone should spend fellowship sooner rather than later, not sure I can take another attack like that.

@Mip: no problem re. work (thanks for telling us).
Hey, you rolled 1, 2, 3... next will be 4, 5, 6!

I will bot you for some kind of attack-- I hope that's okay (the Troll is not an easy enemy).

Well, botting Mip worked better than botting Aredhel!