Is there anything you

[The Smith]

Is there anything you want to do. If you are holding back because you are worried about over stepping or something. Don't. If you have any good NPcs in mind jump in. Or if you have taken a fancy to one of mine.

I just do not want you hanging back and boring yourself, cause we are incharge but we have to have fun too.

[theother]

Don't worry. I'll still bringing myself up to speed on things.
I do have one question. When using a non-combat skill how do we judge a success?

e.g. Rhodri asked whether he'd be able to see through the disguise of "Ser Renald Flower" and recognise Mortimer Pyke. Mortimer has no disguise skill so there's no bonuses there but as it was a party and there were lots of distractions etc I was leaning to a straight 100 roll and if he scored more than 35 then he would recognise him but I asked him to check with you and the moment was lost anyway as "Renald" has left KL with Seth.

So I just wanted a bit of advice on that sort of situation really. I also took a few liberties with the drinking contest and invented my own rules and, I'll hold my hand up here, broke my own rules when 3 of them would have passed out in the first round! So I used some dramatic licence to extend the contest more than strictly speaking it should have gone on.

I'm also a little unsure how to judge things like assassination attempts. Presumably in the recent one Barret wrote it himself as it was a bit too convenient coming so soon after he beefed up his security. But how do we deal with 'real' assassination attempts on PCs. Are they always a no-no and they survive or can they be killed this way - and if so, how do you determine?

[The Smith]

Alright I will admit to the first that my priority has always been drama and enjoyment. I would have done the same as you, what I did at the time was ask Seth about his disguise, and then from what he told I started to apply a number, which would have been low because Rhodri only say him once, for a short time.

I fudge numbers whenever it will make the game better to fudge numbers. So I am completely cool with that.

The way I do assassinations when it is against a player or second I get the Scenario, polish it, tell the targeted player that they have an assassinatio attempt, here is the situation write a way to survive. Once I have both scenarios I judge how likely it is to suceed, and then roll.

For example Barret Tyrell hires a faceless man to murdered Elane in Braavos.

Barret submits a scenario with the assassin poisioning Elane in the Sea Lord's palace

I tell Elane, she writes a scenario with the guards snatching up the assassin as he drops the poision into the chow.

I decide that the Faceless man gives barret a large bonos + 100 to Barret

I decide that the Sealords Palace is hard to kill someone in + 50 to Elane

I decide that Elane's scenario with some one catching the Faceless man is hard and unlikely - 25 to Elane

then I roll for each high number wins.

[The Smith]

By the way, wonderful job as Anya. Callen is just not going to tame that one.