Eyes during encounters

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Angelalex242
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Eyes during encounters

Post by Angelalex242 » Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:43 pm

Is there any special effect for these? Lose 2 points of tolerance instead of 1?

Also, how are they typically RPed? Basic Rudeness? Something else?

zedturtle
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Re: Eyes during encounters

Post by zedturtle » Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:59 pm

Angelalex242 wrote:Is there any special effect for these? Lose 2 points of tolerance instead of 1?

Also, how are they typically RPed? Basic Rudeness? Something else?
No extra effect, but it's always amusing for players to go the extra mile to work the Sauron in. To wit:
Rocmistro, elsewhere, wrote:Huff, upon seeing the Wizard and a Lord of the Woodman's hall, stood as quickly and sincerely as he could in a robust effort to show the proper respect of men fitting their rank.

What he only succeeded in doing, however, was smashing his head into one of Radagast's low wooden rafters. He cried out with a yelp, blacking out for a moment, and then his lumbering form went crashing into Radagast's table. Cheese and fruit and the like launched forth in every direction, and Lord Ingomer was not spared a dollop of cream to adorn his temples before Huff's cacophany had ceased.

When he finally came to, the last thing he remembered was walking through a blessed garden where wedges of brie cheese grew on trees, ripe for the picking.
I've been thinking about awarding an AP, as well as a -1 to Tolerance, but only for that level of effort.
Jacob Rodgers, occasional nitwit.

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Rich H
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Re: Eyes during encounters

Post by Rich H » Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:32 am

I use Encounter Hazards, on page 7 of this document: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... 0Rules.pdf
TOR resources thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=62
TOR miniatures thread: viewtopic.php?t=885

Fellowship of the Free Tale of Years: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8318

Robin Smallburrow
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Re: Eyes during encounters

Post by Robin Smallburrow » Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:01 am

Depends on the encounter, really. This has been discussed quite a bit earlier on previous threads, James Brown gave us some suggestions about how to 'fix' a stuff-up during encounters - see my Fan Supplement in my Resources Page for it, but IIRC he suggested things like 'using Awe to remedy a Courtesy blunder' etc.

But for the LM the key question to ask is: what is the minimum the PC's need to obtain from this Encounter? Then they get that, irrespective of the results of the die roll. For example, one time my party rolled an Eye when meeting Lord Borathor of Umbar for the first time, so that meant they got thrown into prison for a night! But some of them were still able to meet with the Lord the following day, because it was important for the plot.

Robin S.
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