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| Rules Discussion » Mercenaries: Death and Dying » 4/19/2021 5:17 pm |
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BlackKnight wrote:We are currently using ASSH rules with the StoneHell Megadungeon. so the Main base is a set of Orc caves we cleared and cleaned up about 5 miles from both StoneHell and the local town. The forward base is in the Chapel on the surface after clearing most of the surface areas, and we are cleared 1a, heading into quadrants 1b,1c as we speak (We as players have heard that each floor has 4 quads, based on past expeditions and hearsay).
Nice! We are using Stonehell in our campaign too! But my campaign is about 1.5 years in, and they've just dipped into the fifth level below. They've got a set of nearby caves they use as an HQ, but there is a nearby city where they go to trade. Good stuff!
| Rules Discussion » Mercenaries: Death and Dying » 4/19/2021 2:45 pm |
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You guys don't know my players. They name their hirelings, and then get ridiculously attached. The merc in question is Griselda, a heavy crossbow woman. Reduced to -2 by enemy ranged fire last session. The only other merc death they've had was Nails, a heavy infantryman, when a gelatinous cube engulfed him by surprise. Anyhow, they have already said they'd use spells to heal Griselda if she was still alive, but I wasn't sure based on the rules as written. Looks like it's the -3 rule per RAW unless I say otherwise. Thanks for the help.
| Rules Discussion » Mercenaries: Death and Dying » 4/18/2021 12:18 am |
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I've been running an AS&SH rules megadungeon-centered sandbox for over a year and a half now. A question came up last session: when a hired mercenary goes below 0 HP, are they dead, or do the death and dying rules for characters (page 261 in the hardcover rules) apply?
If a "character" (PC?) was "reduced to a range of from −1 to −3 hp, the character is seriously injured...At a total of from −4 to −9 hp, he is in critical condition... If reduced to −10 hp, he is dead." So do these rules apply to combatants that aren't PCs, such as mercenaries hired by the party, or are these other combatants simply dead at 0 HP, not being PCs? Thanks for any help / insights you can give me.
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