Talk:Into the Dark Continent

Playing Nights

1. Mon 12th Dec
2. Mon 19th Dec
3. Fri 30th Dec
   Mon 2nd Jan
   Mon 9th Jan
4. Mon 16th Jan
5. Mon 23rd Jan
6. Mon 30th Jan
7. Mon 6th Feb
8. Mon 13th Feb
9. Mon 20th Feb
10. Mon 27th Feb
11. Mon 6th Mar

House Rules

I write this because I prefer that people know up front how my game works. This is not an exhaustive list of the way I run my games because, well, life is too short..Players are encouraged to ask for clarification where they are uncertain, for as long as my patience lasts.

1. Non-human characters have their Experience divided by the Racial Modifier in the book. If you're not human and you play in my game, you get less Experience. I do not countenance reducing Racial Experience Divisors. The only advantage humans have is that they do not attract this penalty, and I will police this strictly.
2. Natural Armour is the same as Protection, but stacks with it in general. Unless specified otherwise. it is neither Damage Reduction nor Endurance Armour.
3. Spell Armour reduces incoming damage from spells. Protection comes from armour or Natural Armour and reduces the physical damage of blows and certain magical attacks. It may be penetrated by a quality hit (i.e. possible Specific Grievous injuries or blows directly to EN). Endurance Armour reduces the damage component of a quality hit but never protects against the special damage of a Specific Grievous injury. Damage Reduction reduces damage from each attack, whatever the quality of the hit. However, if ANY of the damage gets past Damage Reduction, all of the special damage of a Specific Grievous injury is applied.
4. Unless carrying capacity is specified (e.g. Instill Flight) a flying entity can carry themselves and Encumbrance calculated on their own PS or a flying PS of 5 + the Rank of the flying Magic, whichever is less (E.g. if you have PS of 13, and are flying on Rank 10 Shadow Wings, your Encumbrance is calculated on PS of 13, not 15 ). This may incur AG penalties and FT costs but has no effect on eligibility for wielding weapons, etc.
5. If you move faster than your TMR, your Magic Resistance and Defence are reduced to zero, except against ranged attacks, in which case Def is calculated as 5 per hex moved through.
6. Featherfall creates an inertial volume of air around the subject/victim. It can be counterspelled by the Adept or dispelled by a Namer, at which point falling resumes. Or flying. Any standard form of flying will be inconvenienced by Featherfall.
7. When flying, a steep climb is 30 degrees, or 1 hex up for 2 travelled horizontally. This is as fast as a character can climb, generally speaking. Again, generally speaking, the rate of climb is a maximum of 1/3rd of your flying TMR. Similarly, the shallowest ballistic arc a character can travel is 1/3rd of the horizontal distance traveled. If you leap thirty feet horizontally in a tunnel 8 feet high, they're going to be scraping you off the ceiling.
8. I use a slight variation on the Repulsing a Charge attack. If you are wielding an A Class Hafted weapon in 2 hands, then you roll for Unengaged Initiative. If you lose, you attack just before your opponent's Strike Check, if you win, you attack then AND just before your opponent. Roll 5 + Rank or less on a D10. If you succeed, roll a Strike Check. If you miss, it is a hit directly to EN ignoring Protection, if you hit, it is a possible Specific Grievous injury.
9. I expect players to submit an electronic copy of their character sheet and their write ups to me before the game starts. If there has been little change since the time I last DMed you, then I do not mind if it is only an update. I reserve the right to exclude certain abilities and gear from my game. For reaons known only to the vast otherworldly intelligence that underpins the worlds we play in, Assassin abilities do not stack with Warrior abilities and Warrior abilities do not synergise with spell-casting. To reduce the amount of work I have to do, I expect players whose gear includes Arcane Items, provide me a write up of it, explaining what it does, what base item it derives from and when it expires. I will let you know if I will allow it.
10. By convention, rather than as a rule change, when in close, add your modified PS to your Strike Chance and Defence, since this is what I do for my NPCs.