Re: Odyssey HQ-1 Lessons/Questions

From: DLUKE@msu.edu (Doug Luke)

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <43c896$2fo@epx.cis.umn.edu>
lepag001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Garrett R Le-Page) writes:

>Doug Luke (DLUKE@msu.edu) wrote:
>
>I will answer those questions of yours that are answered by the rules.
>
>:
>: 2) What about live prisoners? I assume that I can try to get them to join
>: my party. If I execute them will I get their gold/items? (Not that I would
>: ever do that!)
>
>You can strip prisoners.  They can probably be influenced to join you as
>any npc can.
>

Well, I think I'll strip AND persuade. That way I'll learn how persuasion
works even though this monsters isn't all that powerful (toughness = 2, I
think.

>: 3) My bashing party (2 good fighters and a so/so magic user) were on there
>: way to a particular den, when they were attacked by a party from another
>: den! Is hiding the only way to avoid this? This didn't turn out too badly,
>: because we defeated the party and got a lot of gold and some interesting
>: looking items. However, there appears to be some loot left over which my
>: party 'ignored' as they continued moving on to their original destination.
>: When we reached that province we couldn't attack because my one live prisoner
>: was just too tuckered out. So, this makes me wonder about a few things. Like,
>: how quickly do dens restock? If I skedaddle back to the first den, will that
>: den loot still be there?
>:
>
>The rules state that if you are attacked, then you will gain the treasure
>carried by the npc's ONLY.  All location treasure will be left behind.
>
>:

So any ambushes will be a two turn process. Win ambush, then next turn
go back to get the loot.

>
>Garrett

References

Odyssey HQ-1 Lessons/Questions
DLUKE@msu.edu (Doug Luke)
Thu, 14 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Odyssey HQ-1 Lessons/Questions
lepag001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Garrett R Le-Page)
Fri, 15 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000