Oh shit!  Sain!  Phelypsis ALSO has an option when she hits a 10+ on a Hack and Slash!  For the first one, it didn't matter because she took him the F out in one go, but this one is short of getting him.<br/>On a 10+, you avoid damage OR you can elect to add an extra +1d6 of damage, but take damage from your opponent.  I'll hold off on responding with the bugbear until hear back about that, just to be sure I'm not robbing you of the action you want!<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Carny&lt;3!</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I wanted to comment, btw, that I've been here a while, seen some games die and almost-die, and you handled the Hi-how-are-you-if-you're-busy-or-you-need-to-drop-I-understand-but-there's-an-IC-board-now-and-we're-active message VERY nicely. Probably one of the politest I've seen. And that's actually an important message moment, because in my experience, when people do start falling behind, whether due to life or other things, if they are interested in the game you can get some self-accusation going on...and that self-accusation gets worse as time passes and can be increased greatly by any external accusation...None of which is conducive to good writing mood! So approaching from the "I understand you might be busy" viewpoint like you did was great to see. I've had some very blunt "Did you leave without telling us? bad you!" messages in the past that did shift me over from "I'm late and life is hell but I do want to play" into "Uh...Yeah okay, never mind that game then." and I am far from the most twitchy person on the internet.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Uuuugh, yeah, that is the fucking worst.  I absolutely promise I'll never give that kind of angry, accusatory response!  Real life is WAY more important than online sexy games and I understand completely that people can get busy and people's interests can wane and that's totally okay in both categories.  I'm so, so glad that you are still joining us, Carny and thank you so much for your sweet words! It means a lot! :)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Also, some things I still am not quite 100% sure I grok here and would appreciate clarification on, if you have a minute?<br/><br/>In AW, if you've got a move whose name implies a characteristic of how the thing gets done, and you succeed with that move, that generally will heavily color the outcome. I'm curious if the bugbears hackles aren't heating up because it wasn't a "roll-based" move (although it was generated by spending hold) or because I myself commented that there wasn't much room for Hjalmar to get up speed for Forceful Charge.<br/><br/>Also, Hjalmar's tusks, now that he's in his partial-were stage (WoD had words for such things but I've not played in probably two decades) have 1-piercing...The damage-as-done was identical to the roll, so I assume they aren't as armored as their yearbook photo shows? :)</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Clarifications are ALWAYS available!  I just may not give them right away!  I am happy to answer questions.<br/><br/>Iiiii may have accidentally short-changed you on two different fronts there!  You are absolutely right, with the Forceful tag, he should be going RIGHT into those flames!  That was honestly a matter of me not paying quite enough attention.  I was focused on getting the dice roller to work exactly the way that I wanted to, so I missed that there was a tag that should have been paid attention to.  Narrative tags are *so* important and I don't at all want to shortchange someone on those!  I'm going to step back and edit that post, making it more appropriately colored!  Which actually... Yeah, that's gonna fuck up that bugbear right proper! ;)  That's a mark for the kill board!<br/>Yes, I should have clarified that, the bugbears do have 1 armor, I just kind of averaged their 1 armor and your 1 piercing together in my mind to show you jamming right though.  Which I really should have shown as well...<br/>The standard bugbears are armored 1 (uh-oh!  MC giving information!  For shame!), so the piercing went right through that!