E-mail Announcement Log

[Michael]

Hey all,

Ok, new rule: Do NOT “Reply All” to my announcement threads. I’ll start an announcement forum on the board. I should be logging these anyway. If you want to broadcast, go do it there.

And AGAIN we find ourselves fighting in Court!

Pretty words are over. Ok, I'll give you 10 again.

Everyone who has committed characters to this battle, just mark "Fight in Otosan Uchi" or somesuch on their turn sheets. We'll do this over the next couple days.

Right now there are 24 Lotus guards, and 12 Emerald Legions in the room, in addition to the personalities discussed. I think we'll run this like we did the last one! Let me know your character's first round actions by tomorrow at midnight.

I'm adding a new action: Rally. You call upon the Guard to support you rather than fight you. The 20 Lotus troops are probably a lost cause, but I'm going to split the 10 Emerald troops 5 attacking Husaki's camp, and 5 defending. Anyone who wants to Rally can make an Air check, each 10 points securing a troop over for you.

We'll go in Fire order, just like before. Rules for attacking flunkies, being attacked by flunkies, and teaming up with flunkies are the same.
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[Michael]

But OOG banter can continue unabated, of course.
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[Michael]

Ok, before battles get going, here are the new Morale rules.

Roll made by the side losing the most units.
Base TN: 10
-5 TN for every Duel your side wins. +5 TN for every Duel your side looses.
+1TN for every 1% of your total force that was destroyed, up to 50%.
+2TN for every 1% of your total force destroyed past 50%.
-5 TN if the opponent lost a greater percentage of their force, even if they lost less units.

Example:
Base TN 10
Crab/Mantis/Crab Alliance has lost more troops: 14.2%, rounded to +14 TN.
Opposing force has lost greater percentage, -5 TN.
Won 2 duels, lost 1, -5 TN
Hida Husaki, Water TN 14:
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[Michael]

First, let me say congratulations to everyone. Don, I know you weren’t witness to this, but this week we generated well over 100 emails a day. I don’t have an exact count, but I believe it’s between 600 and 700 total from late Monday to now. Even for us, that is big. Drinks all around!

Seriously though, I now know what I am going to do when Hoto gets assassinated. Teleconference! It’ll save time and energy.

I think most things have been settled, so let’s keep the Turn 13 sheets due this evening. If they don’t make it in until Saturday morning, I won’t care a whole lot, however.

I want to pass on a new ruling that I hope might fix some of the broken Honor issues. Right now, even with an Air of just 2, it’s pretty damn hard to get dishonored. So here’s the new system: You still have potential honor loss, and real honor loss. However, for each point of potential honor loss that would bring your honor to 0 or beyond, the TN for the Air rolls go up by 5, to indicate that both your rep is really shaky, and you’ve been quite bad, it seems.

Example: Husaki has an Air of 3 and an Honor of 2. Hoto decides to bankrupt the Crab, and Husaki sneaks into the Regent’s quarters and manages to twist his head off. Katsuro catches him. Being caught in an assassination is a 3 point potential hit. 1 point of that hit would drop his honor to 1, but the second point would make it 0. So 2 points are affected by this new rule, adding +10 to the honor TNs. Husaki’s TN for the first point is 10 (Honor x 2) + 10 (modifier) for 20. He rolls a 3, 4, 6. Failure. His honor drops to 1. His TN for the second two rolls is 5 (base) +10 (modifier) for 15.

I’ll post this to the board, so respond there if you want to complain. But, while we seem to be watching the importance of honor waver in Rokguan, it still carries some weight.
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