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[mastahcheese]

Use my claws on it's eyes! Blind it!

[Unholy_Pariah]

spend entire turn reaching bigtooth.

[Joben]

Activate Brachiation Mode to get over towards the Bigtooth.

(Climb 5+1,2+1) After a bit of tricky climbing you arrive close to the Bigtooth but above it. You can probably drop down onto it's back, which may be easier that climbing up a leg.

Attack the belly.

You bite and pull off a chunk of skin and flesh from the belly before the creature rises to it's feet again. It's tree trunk size tail swishes toward you and you scramble out of the way, but end up sprawled Prone on the ground.

Your consolation is that the blood covering your face isn't yours. You have succeeded in wounding the Bigtooth's belly.

(6-1-2+2-2 Attack Total 3, 6 Damage)

spend entire turn reaching bigtooth.

You do so, moving in close to be able to attack it.

Get up, spin around and roar at all the little bitey things!

Bigtooth clambers back to it's feet and pivots in place roaring in pain and fury, it's huge tail whips around behind it as it turns. (vs Scrapheap, Attack 0, Luck 6) (vs Dwarmin 4, Special: Knock to Medium distance and Prone)

"Yeeerk!" Toehook yeerk'd!

His Dad, Slider, would be so proud!

Action: Claw the exposed belly while he's down!

You try for it's belly but the creature is already rising, it whirls around and it's tail strikes you a bone jarring blow as you approach. (40 Damage) You are thrown back head over heals away from it. You stumble back to your feet and doggedly re-approach back to Close range but can't attack before an abstract concept called "end of turn" intervenes.

((Apologies for the basically negated action...and the cracked ribs.))

ATTACK BELLY. KILL KILL KILL!

Your grip on the beast's belly holds as it rises to it's feet again. You try to hurt it some more, but only mange to keep your hold.

You are clinging to Bigtooth's belly.

(Attack [6]-[6+1]= -1. Miss)

Use my claws on it's eyes! Blind it!

You scamper up to it's head section hoping to rip out it's eyes. When you get to the top of it's skull and start trying to claw it bucks it's head furiously. You take some Bigtooth skull straight to the chin and fall off. Somehow you manage to land on your feet.


(Climbing 6, Attack 1 vs 7, Luck 6: fall damage averted, -10 HP)


Everyone's Status: http://tinyurl.com/DinoArenaSheets

Spoiler: GM Notes (click to show/hide)

lol I hadn't really pictured the trees as dense/large enough for brachiation but it was a cool idea so I allowed it. I guess there are a few bigger trees close together here.

This is more or less what most of the landscape around looks like:



The Bigtooth's belly is < half health and has been 'wounded', adding 5 to the amount of Vigor it burns per turn. It's still ok at this point, but a few more wounds and it will rapidly become exhausted.

Also it just occurred to me that I have ideas for what happens when most bodyparts are brought to 0 HP, but not for the belly. What should happen this to this guy if his belly is 'disabled' keep in mind it can't be instant death.


I'm noting a Dwarmin and Unholy's actions this turn as ones where a character arguably didn't do anything interesting. I'm not going to change anything now, because it was the result of fundamental mechanics. But maybe we'll revisit it after we see how this fight works as a whole.

[GreatWyrmGold]

((Go us!))

Drop on top of the Bigtooth's head, using my momentum to increase the force behind my attack as I attack the Bigtooth's head!

[Dwarmin]

Toehook was too stupid and brave to feel pain, but he thought he should get up before the bigfoot stomped on him!

Action: Bite the bigtoes knee! He'll never be an adventurer like me!

[Joben]

Toehook was too stupid and brave to feel pain, but he thought he should get up before the bigfoot stomped on him!

Action: Get up quick before I got stomped on!

((Toehook is currently on his feet and Close. The tail hit before your actions happened, and threw you back and away. I figured he wouldn't be dissuaded by that so I followed the spirit of your action and had him spend his moves to get up and within striking range again.))

[Maxinum McDreich]

(Wondering where my +1 defense went to. I imagine that since I didn't say to KEEP clinging to the belly that I can't argue that one as well.)

Leap up to belly and attack it, and try to cling on to it!

[scapheap]

Leap on to and cling to the tail. Bite it to help grip and damage.

[Joben]

(Wondering where my +1 defense went to. I imagine that since I didn't say to KEEP clinging to the belly that I can't argue that one as well.)

((Your Defense wasn't a factor because you were not attacked. With the fluff cut away your Attack Total minus it's Defense Total was negative 2,  that's major failure in this system, which triggers automatic minimum damage from the creature you're fighting. Conceptually your attack went so poorly that you didn't just miss you got hurt a little. A bit like the Botch rules in some systems. (Although looking at the graph again the threshold probably needs to be adjusted from -2 to -3 to trigger a counter. The base rate should be about 15% not 25%)

Errr...what...Oh! I see you did use the word 'grab' back in turn 2. Sorry about that. Ok, sure we can apply that properly. You're holding on, and that would alter the turn 3 modifiers a little so you would avoid the counter.))

[Maxinum McDreich]

(yay! I'll bring this thing down! Hopefully not ontop of me! (Wee add-on: No need to apologise. I shoulda said I was still grabbing on rather than simply expecting you to remember every minor detail of everyone's things ever!))

[Unholy_Pariah]

tear at the bigtoes ankle tendon on the same side dwarmin is attacking.

If bigtooth is knocked over by the end of turn, jump up onto its side.
If not, cling to its leg.

((Perhaps you could include a charge action that burns twice as much vigor but lets you reach and attack targets in the same turn?))

[mastahcheese]

Jump on it's back again!

[Joben]

((Go us!))

Drop on top of the Bigtooth's head, using my momentum to increase the force behind my attack as I attack the Bigtooth's head!

You drop straight down into it's head with considerable force. Your claws bite deep and you grab on. It shakes it's head and swipes at you with it's forepaws but you maintain your grip.

(Attack 5-1+1 Def 2+2-1, Total 2, Damage 4)

tear at the bigtoes ankle tendon on the same side dwarmin is attacking.

If bigtooth is knocked over by the end of turn, jump up onto its side.
If not, cling to its leg.

((Perhaps you could include a charge action that burns twice as much vigor but lets you reach and attack targets in the same turn?))

You lunge for it's left leg, along with Dwarmin. You leap onto the leg and hang on digging in your claws and ripping.

(Attack 5+1 vs 1+2, Total 3, Damage 6)

Leap on to and cling to the tail. Bite it to help grip and damage.

You rise back to your feet and leap, but the tail swishes almost out of your reach. The tips of Your claws skitter along it's scaly hide but you can't get a grip.

The bigtooth charges off to Medium distance thrashing at the Hunters clinging to it.

(Attack 4-1 vs 1+2, Luck 4, Null)

Get it off get it off!!!!

You Charge off and try to get the angry hissing thing off your face. You bend you neck down try to pull it off with your forepaws but can't get a grip.

(1+1 vs 1+1, Luck 3, Null)

Toehook was too stupid and brave to feel pain, but he thought he should get up before the bigfoot stomped on him!

Action: Bite the bigtoes knee! He'll never be an adventurer like me!

You and Unholy coordinate and strike for it's left leg, he gets on, then the creature starts running. You catch up and bite at it's leg but miss.

(Attack 3+2 vs Def 5+2)

(Wondering where my +1 defense went to. I imagine that since I didn't say to KEEP clinging to the belly that I can't argue that one as well.)

Leap up to belly and attack it, and try to cling on to it!

(As retconned you're already on belly)

You try to hold on and rip at the same time, this doesn't go well at all. You fall off and are struck a glancing blow by the creature's leg as it runs along.

(Attack 1 vs 4+1 Botch) (10 HP lost) (Luck 5 landed on your feet.)

Jump on it's back again!

The Bigtooth is running along so you have to chase it to catch up. You leap and just barely get your claws into it's right leg but don't manage to climber higher onto it's back yet.

(Attack 4 vs 1+2, Total 1, Damage 2) (Riding R Leg)


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Spoiler: GM Notes (click to show/hide)

I gave GreatWrym at net +2 over his normal Attack stats due to his cunning plan.

Unholy's charge idea seems like a pretty good one. I'm generally in favor of things that let players spend intrinsic resources for an advantage. (I've been listing to a lot of Tabletop RPG sessions in the Gumshoe system lately) And it's easy enough to handle on my end. So we'll roll with that. You can trade 5 Vigor for an extra move action. We'll see how that goes for now, and maybe latter I'll allow spends for other stuff.

Counter Attacks now trigger when Attack Total is -3, dropping their base rate to 16.67% if both creatures have no modifiers.

Bigtooth's last special attack has been revealed because he used it. Foreclaws: +1 Attack, Close range only, can Hold, x3 Damage Multiplier

[Unholy_Pariah]

tear at the tendons on the inside of the knee.

If the bigtooth falls over jump off towards the underside of its tail to avoid being crushed and then loop around begind it and jump onto its other leg to avoid being struck whilst dismounting or mounting

((Hey joben, can you put the special actions like grip, rush and ambush back in the op, i find having the specific details on hand helpful for my strategising.))

[GreatWyrmGold]

Bite and scratch at the Bigtooth's eye. Don't fall off.