<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><link class="skype_name_highlight_style" href="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/injection_nh_graph.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" charset="utf-8" id="_injection_graph_nh_css"><link href="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/skypeplugin_dropdownmenu.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" charset="utf-8" id="_skypeplugin_dropdownmenu_css"></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">it's also a good "backstab" skill<br></font></font></font><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255);">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Julian Draven <juliandraven@yahoo.com>
<br>Sent: Jul 21, 2011 11:11 PM
<br>To: The Powers and Perils Mailing List <pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl>
<br>Subject: Re: [PnP] Executioner skill
<br><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"><div>I think any sort of weapon would work for the Executioner skill, assuming that you have a bound and helpless victim. After all, you can kill a person with a pencil if you know where to strike and the person is helpless to defend.</div>
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<div>So you get the standard bonuses from the combat charts for a helpless opponent *and* the additional bonuses from the Executioner skill. </div>
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<div>On your knees, bound and facing away from an enemy is a bad place to be.<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 7/21/11, dasandersx@comcast.net <i><dasandersx@comcast.net></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><br>From: dasandersx@comcast.net <dasandersx@comcast.net><br>Subject: [PnP] Executioner skill<br>To: pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl<br>Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011, 9:15 PM<br><br>
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<div><br>All,</div>
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<div>How do you think the executioner skill should be used?</div>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11pt;"><span> </span>An Executioner is skilled in killing bound or helpless targets AND in the effective use of torture. The damage plus applies when the target is unaware of the Executioner or unable to defend itself. The effect is as specified below.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p></div>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">Normal or Shield *<span> </span><b></b></span></p></td>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">Severe Hit<span> </span><b></b></span></p></td>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoBodyText"><font face="Courier New">*In this circumstance, any Shield Hit is a Normal Hit. When the skill is used against a defenseless or immobile target, the <b>EL*2 </b>is subtracted from the attack roll.</font></p></div>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoBodyText"><font face="Courier New"><span> </span>Torture allows the Executioner to question prisoners. The Prisoner answers the question, with at least partial truth, if the Executioner rolls:</font>
</p><p style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">(EL*6)- Victim’s Stamina/2) or less</span></b>
</p><p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11pt;">The time to torture and ask one question is <b>1D6 </b>tactical turns. The damage inflicted in doing so is <b>1D3 </b>hit points. No Combat Experience is gained for damage scored in this way. </span>
</p><p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11pt;">The Executioner is capable of telling when he is bringing his subject close to death. He may stop at any time. The chance the victim passes out is a percentage of his total hit points.</span>
</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11pt;">EXAMPLE</span><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11pt;">— The torturer has inflicted 13 hits on a person who takes 20. There is a 65% chance the person passes out. The person will be unconscious 1/2 hour per hit point inflicted.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"></span>
</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1515752187MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11pt;">IMPORTANT<b> — </b>The chance the victim passes out is rolled after each damage inflicting session. The best members of this profession are also skilled as healers, herbalists and scholars of anatomy.</span>
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<div>Say the character has captured and bound a victim,and uses the skill to kill them with, say, a dagger. Does the skill still apply? Or must he use an executioner's axe. Keep in mind that under those circumstances, -20 is subtracted from the to-hit roll, as well as the damage class increasing by one (deadly becomes fatal, severe becomes Deadly, etc.). Now, that -20 and the damage class thing happens for ANYONE attacking the victim. The executioner, if successful with his skill, would also get the EL*2 subtracted from the attack roll (he knows best how to control the victim and keep him from squirming?) AND the extra damage listed above.</div>
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<div>How would you determine the dificulty level of the execution? Other restrictions?</div>
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