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I am fine with that.

So he already gave her coins? I don't think 5 PP is more than 50 GP? There's a 10:1 system in Pathfinder and SW: Pathfinder

COINS & EXCHANGE VALUE
COIN CP SP GP PP
Copper (cp) 1 1/10 1/100 1/1,000
Silver (sp) 10 1 1/10 1/100
Gold (gp) 100 10 1 1/10
Platinum (pp) 1,000 100 10 1

10 to 1 is fine!

So 5 PP is 50 gp

Guess I should fix the monetary thing in the forum.

It seems like The Celebration thread has wound down.

Shall I start a Morning After thread?

Consider whether or not your character is going to accept the Boar Hunt invitation?

Also any character that chooses to visit with Alex the nobleman will receive 5 PP for saving his life.

Happy to start the morning after thread

Coral will not turn up her nose at the option for 5PP! So, she'll go!

Money makes the world go around... so Selaim would be in too...

(OOC - I was waiting for Cat to recognize Aendell approaching and then talk to her about the 'reading'. We can do that as a separate thread though, so we don't' delay things.)

Vryx is busy with work travel for a couple of weeks. So that will likely happen after he returns to normal life.

Hi all, sorry just very hectic right now!

New Thread is up.

The Harrowing thread is still there and open, so that it can be used when you both have time to do so. It doesn't matter if it runs out of sync with everything else.

Going to try to post when I'm home this weekend. Pande, Cat wants to go along. But she does have the major flaw obligation to be on duty, so whatever your direction there is she's allowed or not, just lmk pls

Cat will be allowed to go, if for no other reason than the Sherrif will want to offer special VIP protection for the rich nobleman from Maginmar.

Sorry everyone for making a drive-by post on the current scene. My time's been really crunched and wanted to get some plot stuff in when I was able to write. Did not mean to be rude or rush anyone.

Sorry between the floor, friends visiting and kids and Spring Break have lagged behind a bit...

Friends and family happen.

No worries.

What is the distance of the boars?

I think we should talk about Arcane Background, specifically Bolt. Spells need an activation roll. P 160 Savage Pathfinder

A character activates a power by picking a target within Range and making an arcane skill roll. Failure means the power doesn’t
activate. The caster spends one Power Point regardless of any Edges such as Channeling, unless the ability specifically says it reduces
the minimum cost to 0.

Success means the power activates and consumes all the Power Points allocated to it, even if it misses the target (such as with bolt), or the defender resists. A raise has additional effects noted in the particular power description.

Backlash: A Critical Failure when activating a power is called Backlash. It causes a level of Fatigue and all currently active powers
instantly terminate.
------------- I don't see the activation roll being made, please assist me.

As far as Damage, don't care... Specifically said don't worry about damage rolls. I do care about the attack, and if it was a raise. Which I am confirming. There is discussion the net Bolt being directed against parry, yet both rule books I have say it is a ranged attack.

Pinnacle themselves say Bolt in particular has Parry as a target.
https://www.pegforum.com/forum/sava...h-modifiers-count-toward-getting-a-raise

I think I would call this boar a size 0, just for reference purposes.

So I think a SW grognard pointed me in the right direction. The link applies if Bolt is cast in melee, vs parry. Otherwise it is range.

So this is what I learned...

Order of operations for bolt:

Spellcasting (TN 4) - power activates and uses PP.
Compare Spellcasting result to ranged TN of target, ignoring ranged penalties. Cover, Dodge, Arcane Resistance, whatever all applies. Base TN=4.
If it hits, roll damage as normal.
If the initial activation roll got a raise and it hits, roll the extra d6 raise damage.
In the instance where it is being used in melee, then swap step 4 for Parry instead of Ranged TN.

I read this:

"Spellcasting (TN 4) - power activates and uses PP.
Compare Spellcasting result to ranged TN of target, ignoring ranged penalties. Cover, Dodge, Arcane Resistance, whatever all applies. Base TN=4."

to mean that the spellcasting roll was compared against TN4 modified by cover dodge etc. ie a single test taking everything into account.

It says "There are no Range penalties, but the arcane skill roll is affected by Cover, Illumination, and all other usual penalties."

And I read "the usual penalties" to be the usual casting penalties : -2 for two actions etc

I also read this that a single Spellcasting roll is both to activate and to use that result against the target number.

so if the boar is in medium cover, the spell cast roll would have had a -4 applied- so the 8 becomes a 4, which is still a success, but no longer a raise.

Thanks, I was looking for that specific entry but couldn't find the darn thing.

Normal SWADE uses an power activation role, and then worries about the other pieces. It seems Savage Finder does away with a step, which in a lot of ways is good.

The boar starts out in cover when she does her fire bolt, which of course causes it to leave cover, for some strange reason.

So that does negate the raise, but I don't think I counted that in my list. So we are halfway there as far as the number of successes to complete this task.