Re: General OOC Chatter Thread

[Baelon Drakeson]

Not about the dice roll IC he just looks stronger to me than Baelon.

Both have 5d6k5 and 1 or 2B in a weapon specialty other than spears, so you both hit pretty darned hard, but in IC he has spoken to Ben and seems more the warrior.

Ah, I see. Being here in the OOC thread I interpreted it as an OOC comment, not an IC comment. Yeah, Baelon is muscular, but he is also a pretty-boy that talks a lot, so I can see how Ben would give more of a warrior-like impression.

So someone with 5 in an ability rolls 5d6k5, but with 2B it's 7d6k5?

Correct

[Athelstan]

Third, I'm not sure what you mean by a 'token of esteem' as opposed to a 'formal favor'. A favor is a token of esteem, then is worn in a tourney to show off that esteem.

This shows the tradition in Chivalry of a Knight carrying a Lady's favor into battle or tournament. His courage and deeds bring honor to the Lady. The Lady shows her love by bestowing the favor.

That is quite different to a token of esteem I believe :;
):

Edit: The Rules of Courtly Love allowed a Knight to express his admiration even for married ladies. Knights begged "
tokens"
from ladies. And were presented with "
favours"
such as a veil, ribbon, or the detachable sleeve of a ladies dress. These 'favours' would be displayed by the Knight attached to his arm, his helm or tied to his lance. The lady thereby showed her favour to the knight who would dedicate his performance at the tournament to the lady.

[Ser Fendrel Bartheld]

So someone with 5 in an ability rolls 5d6k5, but with 2B it's 7d6k5?

Yes. (Or you can just type 5d6 in the first case, either works.)

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

Third, I'm not sure what you mean by a 'token of esteem' as opposed to a 'formal favor'. A favor is a token of esteem, then is worn in a tourney to show off that esteem.

This shows the tradition in Chivalry of a Knight carrying a Lady's favor into battle or tournament. His courage and deeds bring honor to the Lady. The Lady shows her love by bestowing the favor.

That is quite different to a token of esteem I believe :;
):

Edit: The Rules of Courtly Love allowed a Knight to express his admiration even for married ladies. Knights begged "
tokens"
from ladies. And were presented with "
favours"
such as a veil, ribbon, or the detachable sleeve of a ladies dress. These 'favours' would be displayed by the Knight attached to his arm, his helm or tied to his lance. The lady thereby showed her favour to the knight who would dedicate his performance at the tournament to the lady.

That's pretty much what I thought, that a favour was kind of like a good luck charm showing whom you hoped would win, whereas giving a personal gift to show esteem or affection would be something just for the other person to keep and treasure for themselves.

I'm sorry I wasn't clear in my post, I've done my best to edit it into coherency.

[Dyana Marsten]

Do you need plate armor to joust?

[Athelstan]

Not really (I think), it just HELPS a lot to mitigate the damage you take.

[Ser Fendrel Bartheld]

Do you need plate armor to joust?

No since I honestly doubt most jousters could even afford it. Any kind of heavy armour should be fine. (But plate armour definitely helps with absorbing the damage.)

[Athelstan]

Unless you are Dunstan I think majority of people will have something around Breastplate level of protection and a courser/rounsey ride.

[Dyana Marsten]

Courser/rounsey, eh? Dyana has a destrier, but there's no chance she'd joust him. '-'

What does Dunstan have, why and how can it be taken from him?

[Gwyneth Drakeson]

Oh gods, please don't humiliate my wannabe-fiance in front of the entire Riverlands.

*facepalm*

[Dyana Marsten]

So what, you can leave your family behind? Huh.

[Baelon Drakeson]

What does Dunstan have, why and how can it be taken from him?

It's easy - beat him in the joust and his horse and armor (not weapon as some have said) are yours.
I'm willing to put my life on the line to protect his, but I'd pay good money to see Dyana unhorse him. :mrgreen:

[Athelstan]

Heirloom weapons are normally out, but you are supposed to lose it all, and he can ransom them back or you can keep them.

He will be a hard cookie to crumble with that armor in any circumstance.

Of course Orokos can stab him in the back and give him crappy Animal Handling roll

[Dyana Marsten]

It's easy - beat him in the joust and his horse and armor (not weapon as some have said) are yours.
I'm willing to put my life on the line to protect his, but I'd pay good money to see Dyana unhorse him. :mrgreen:

If he's a half-competent rider, she wouldn't get close to unhorsing him. She's not too good at it, only perhaps with her horse. It'd be fun to see that happen, though.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

Oh gods, please don't humiliate my wannabe-fiance in front of the entire Riverlands.

*facepalm*

I'm torn now.I want my cousins to both be happy, but Corrine would semi-secretly love to see a woman kick ass in the tourney events.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

So what, you can leave your family behind? Huh.

Well, it's fast becoming a Marsten girl tradition!

[Gwyneth Drakeson]

Gwyn would too!

Just not DUNSTAN's ass.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

Gwyn would too!

Just not DUNSTAN's ass.

I completely understand.

[Dyana Marsten]

As I said, Dunstan has plate, you don't need to worry...

He probably has higher scores in everything important to jousting as well. I hope Dyana faces some easier fare before going against someone like that.

[Athelstan]

He has high high fighting and average Animal Handling so you can drop him.

[Benedict Marsten]

we shall see, I still think its more likely you that my opponent is you.

Yes, it does seem likely. All Dunce-tan's fault, really. I only had one way to protect him from himself....

In case Theomore's words fall on deaf ears. Ben doesn't not grab Dunstan as he would like, but instead steps with him. "
My Lord Dunstan please let me champion for House Tullison in this trial, you would do me great honor."

"
Aye Ser Ben! I'm glad to hear so! Lord Tully can choose his champion now, since both of us applied! I call any true man to volunteer and be the champion of the Seven against Athelstan the Kinslayer! "
Dunstan walked around with both hands in the air shouting through the masses

Dunstan already had protection(above) before you stepped in. Unless you didn't think I had it under control, which is why I posted an official plea to Lord Tully.

[Baelon Drakeson]

Dunstan already had protection(above) before you stepped in. Unless you didn't think I had it under control, which is why I posted an official plea to Lord Tully.

I was under the impression that it was going to be decided by status rolls, so the more people rolling, the more likely someone would beat Dunstan's roll. Unlikely, but still.
I'm not entirely unhappy with the way things turned out - it's a great note in the Corrine love triangle going on... but Baelon doesn't know about that, so he can't really make decisions on that basis.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

Just bought myself the core rulebook, so should have it in a day or so! Whee!

[Kevan Lyras]

Just bought myself the core rulebook, so should have it in a day or so! Whee!

Reader should get kickbacks from GR as he is doing more for the sifrp product line with this games than GR did in th last few years..

[Dunstan Tullison]

Knight of the Laughing Tree * cough, cough*

I would love to see Dyana jousting and why not, beating Dunstan:)

EDIT: Just saw you signed up! Awesome!

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