Dice [OOC] - To Stand Against the Crimson Tide

[Equusheart]

Question, what does the Aurochs look like?

 

[Random Word]

A giant bronze bull, now badly damaged and leaking fire from many wounds.

 

[Equusheart]

Posted. Do I need to add anything?

 

[Random Word]

Nope! Now you decide if you're making a withering or decisive attack (hint: you're making a withering attack), and then you roll to hit. Your pool is Dex + Archery + any applicable Archery Specialty + Weapon Accuracy. If you want to use any of your powers, like the Archery Excellency, declare them. Roll and count your successes. If you beat its defence, you take your net successes plus your weapon Damage and compare it to the target's Soak. You take the difference and roll that many dice. If the number of dice is lower than the Overwhelming rating of your weapon, roll your Overwhelming in dice instead. You count the hits on those dice, and that's how much initiative damage you deal. You gain that much initiative+1, and the enemy loses that much.

Got all that?

 

[Random Word]

Equusheart need any help?

 

[Equusheart]

I'm here! Sorry, it was my Friday and it ended up being busy.

Okay, so I'm making a Withering attack. So that would be 5 + 5 ? And I guess I'll declare Archery Excellency Do I write that out in my post?

 

[Random Word]

You can do it in a spoiler in your post, or in the OoC thread. Anywhere's fine, so long as we know where to find it. The Archery Excellency is 1m per extra die, up to a limit of Ability + Specialty. You choose how many dice you want to buy, but you regenerate 5m per turn, and you can't keep more than your maximum. Then add your weapon's accuracy for Medium range. You'll probably want to keep the stats for your bow in your character sheet somewhere.

Artifact Archery Weapon Ranges
Close Short Medium Long Extreme*
-1 +5 +3 +1 -1

So your artifact bow adds 3 dice at Medium range.

Medium +12 4 5
So +12 damage, 4 Overwhelming, 5m attunement cost (those motes of essence are allocated to the bow for the duration you're attuned to it).

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

And don't forget two extra dice from your stunt, for a grand total of 5 (Dex) +5 (Ability) +5 (Excellency) +2 (stunt) +3 (Weapon). That's 20 dice, but you didn't write down what are your 4 specialties, so you could take one in bow, and add 1 die from specialty, and buy one more die from the excellency, for a total of 22 dice.

 

[Equusheart]

You can do it in a spoiler in your post, or in the OoC thread. Anywhere's fine, so long as we know where to find it.

Alright. For now I'll post it here until I've got it figured out. I hate that math makes my brain freeze

 

[Equusheart]

Is there a way to be simple? I feel like that's a dumb question.

So, I'm doing 20 dice?

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

You can roll just 20 dice, but why? more dice means more chance to Crash Blackscale, and means it will be hard for her to do much.

 

[Equusheart]

Is Blackscale the Aurochs?

 

[Sherwood]

No, the Blackscale is currently in melee with the elephant-man; the Aurochs is an elemental-controlled statue that was under the control of the Bronze Tide. Right now, it is on our side, but to be fair, there is no way for you to know this since SJet hasn't had a chance to have it attack one of its old allies.

 

[Equusheart]

Okay, so 20 dice yes? And are these 4 sided dice or...?

 

[Random Word]

Okay, so 20 dice yes? And are these 4 sided dice or...?

22 dice, and Exalted is easy here. All dice are d10s. Always. No exceptions.

 

[Equusheart]

22 dice, and Exalted is easy here. All dice are d10s. Always. No exceptions.

Alright, that does make things easier.

Okay so rolling for attack.

 

[Equusheart]

Like that?

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

Yep, that's 13 successes on the attack roll.

(7 and up is a success, 10 counts as Double)

It has a Soak of 16, and your weapon's damage is 12, so that's 25 minus 16. For a total of 9 dice of damage.

 

[Tachyon]

Good shot by Sayuri! Go go go!

 

[Equusheart]

Good shot by Sayuri! Go go go!

Wrong target though

 

[Sherwood]

It was still a valiant effort!

 

[Random Word]

Like that?

Yes! But as Red Shadow Claws mentioned, you deal 9 dice of damage. Where Exalted and D&D differ is you then roll those dice to find out how much damage you actually deal, so roll 9d10 and count your successes.

 

[Equusheart]

Alright, rolling for damage.

 

[Equusheart]

So, that's 3 successes and a double with 10. So... *calculates* .... 35?

 

[Random Word]

In that 35 contains 5, and 5 is the answer, yes! That's 5i damage to the Aurochs, and Sayuri gains 6i, bumping her up to 13i. Now the enemy wind dancers are up, and then it's Garret and Sjet's turn!