Warhammer Quest

To fight in the contest you first roll to see what your opponent is like: Roll 1D6, 1-2 one level above you (not higher than BL 10); 3-4 same level as you are; 5-6 one level below you (not lower than BL 1). Generate this warrior by rolling on the skills, battle level tables, etc. to make him at least near realistic. Roll to acquire (his BL X 2) dungeon room treasures, and roll (his BL divided by 3 rounding up) objective room treasures, keeping all that he can appropriately use. Then spend (1000 X his BL) gold on any appropriate equipment, armour, weapons, and healing supplies that could possibly benefit him in the battle against you, buying them from any place he could normally visit in a city assuming that all items are available. Be reasonable, very few warriors ever buy more than 6 or 12 each of bandages and provisions. It is also doubtful, though not impossible that an elf would have more than 10 to 20 pieces of Way Bread.

Once the champion is created, fight an all out combat against him one-on-one. Draw three board sections at random and set them up in as straight a line as possible, all connected. Also, roll 2D6 to determine the number of squares between the contestants as they are placed on the board sections. Whoever has the highest Initiative goes first. If their Initiatives are the same, randomly determine who gets the first turn. (Other Characters) The first warrior to drop to 10 wounds or lower with no way to heal if he were to reach 0 wounds is the loser! (The Martial Artist) Neither the Martial Artist nor his opponent Martial Artist will give up until he is at 0 wounds and his vest of honor fails to heal him; so, whoever is left standing is the winner! (Don't worry they will not truly die, because the officiators have plenty of healers nearby).

Whether you win or lose, you are restored to your condition before the fight began (including any items used up during the combat). If you lose, you are so ashamed that you leave in disgrace (the Martial Artist will also leave town immediately without rolling a settlement event) and are compelled to make an offering of your BL D6 X 100 gold to the school. If you are not able to pay while at this settlement by giving up to all of your gold, and selling off any unwanted and/or unneeded weapons and treasures, you must pay off your debt as soon as possible at the next town or city. If you win you receive 40% of the last D6+1 contest offerings to the school (this includes this one since the former champion has to pay the loser's fee this time). To figure your winnings you multiply (your defeated opponent's BL D6 x 100) X D6+1 (# of contests the former champion was undefeated plus his offering for this one) take 40% of the result as your winnings. You could be hauling quite a load of gold! Of course, you could also lose the family farm.

Resolve the combat just like #7 above, except you obviously do not need to create a character. Also, the reward and losses are different. Since this is a fund raiser, the public are supplying many donations to be able to see the event, and the winner gets to take his choice of the fabulous rewards in #12 below. Remember the "Other Character" and "Martial Artist" designations.

The loser is so shamed that he gets laughed out of the school as in result #2 above. If the Martial Artist has lost, he must immediately leave the school and the settlement (treated as Settlement Event #11, roll to see if he loses his gold).

"Each of these pockets will mystically collect particles of the life force of the creatures you kill.  For every one monster killed by the wearer the pocket(s) will collect one edible life force wafer.  Each wafer will restore 1D3 wounds to any warrior who eats them.  Each pocket will hold 3 such wafers.  The wafers are so light they will melt in the mouth even of an unconscious warrior.  Remember, only three wafers to a pocket, and the wafers disappear if you try to store them anywhere outside of the mystical pockets.  You must be sure to keep slaying the vile creatures so that you will always have a supply of the miraculous wafers!  It would be very dishonorable to be caught with such pockets empty.  Think of how disappointed your master would be if he were to see you in such a condition!"

Further rolls of 5 on this table add 1D3 more little pockets.  (Alternatively, if you choose to start him without the vest, presumably because you have another great healer or two in the party, he would then receive the Vest of Honor the first time he rolled this result. He would presumably have a vision that included his dying masters words as quoted above when describing the Vest of Honor.)

However, the silver coating will only last 1D3 adventures then the steel nunchaku must be re-coated at a School of Martial Arts Shop. The shop keeper will just trade a newly coated set for your uncoated set at a cost of 1000 gold for the silver coating and the labor. You must roll for availability just like buying a new set at 9+. If the shop keeper doesn't have a set ready, then you may still pay the 1000 gold and come back in 1D3 days to pick up your own re-coated. This could pose a problem with catastrophic events, etc. When picking up your silver re-coated steel nunchaku, they will be waiting for you at the entrance gate of the school, since you will not be allowed back into the school during this stay at the settlement. Or, you could just forget the silver coating this time. Without the silver coating this weapon is exactly the same as a normal steel nunchaku. Yes, you may have your originally non-coated steel nunchaku coated in this same manner.

If he so desires, he may choose to attack any one opponent in a one-turn or partial-turn kick boxing match. To do so he must have at least two attacks available and declare that he will be kick boxing his opponent. (He may still spend his other attacks on other special skills, but must have at least 2 normal attacks to use in order to truly be "kick boxing"). He may only do this when not adjacent (and thus pinned) to any other opponent while attacking his chosen "kick boxing partner". He thus proceeds to fight with his feet and fists, mostly his feet. While so engaged, his concentration is so intense that he gains +1 to hit and +1 to the DRTR, but may use no weapons this turn, except those considered as "unarmed" (i.e. knuckle dusters) OR "Battle Boots"(+1 kick attack, +1str, -1 to hit). He may not even use nunchaku. He may however switch back to nunchaku during the monster phase, and may still block, strike back, and use twirling nunchaku defensively (if he has the skills) as long as he has forfeited the required attacks in the warrior phase.

Same as Barbarian skill in Roleplay Book

In COMBAT: He may trade in 2 attacks for one flying kick attack, if he successfully breaks from pinning, and has at least one empty square available to start his jump, he may fly at any chosen LOS enemy up to his initiative plus his battle level distance (So, BL 2+4 Initiative would give a maximum range of 6. He is effectively trading 2 attacks for the range and added attack benefits. He can use normal movement to get into range for the flying kick/jump). He should roll to hit with his weapon skill-not BS (since he is a weapon) versus his chosen target's weapon skill.

If he hits, work out unarmed damage as above plus 2 on DRTR and adding 1D6 to the final damage total. For instance, if he frees from pinning and rolls to hit his target and hits, then rolls 2D6 and gets a 9, we add 2 giving an 11 result. Thus he stuns his opponent plus we add the 2 extra wounds and another D6. If he rolled a 6 to hit, then he would get +2D6 damage (+1D6 for Flying Kick and +1D6 for Killing Blow). However, he may not get a death blow on a Flying Kick, since he must concentrate on regaining his balance.

If he misses (he may physically hit the target, but not offensively as intended), he must do a toughness test versus the intended target, (toughness +1D6). If he scores less than the target scores, he takes the difference in wounds with no modifiers.

Whether he hit or missed, he must land in any available empty square adjacent to the target. If he, missed, he lands in a randomly chosen adjacent square. If he hit, he may choose which one. If he has killed his target with the flying kick, he takes either the same square or any adjacent square of his choosing. If there is no empty square the monsters(&/or warriors) must make room for him, moving models around as needed. Just try to use common sense.

Alternatively, he may just choose to make a long flying jump to any empty square (same range as above), by trading in two attacks, breaking from pinning and making a normal initiative test at 7+. Once he lands he may continue his turn using any movement points and attacks he has left. If he fails his initiative test roll 1D6, on 1-3 he actually makes the jump, but must spend the rest of the turn getting back up and may not move or attack, on 4-6 he fails to initiate the jump and recovers only losing the two attacks that he has sacrificed to attempt the jump. When not in combat (no monsters present), he may still attempt his Flying Jump as many times as he could if he were in combat (trading two attacks for each attempt).

He may attempt either the Flying Jump or the Flying Kick as many times as he trades 2 attacks and is not immobilized by a previously failed (in the same turn) Flying Jump/Flying Kick. However, unless he has a source of light he had better be careful about jumping into a darkened area of the dungeon (The lantern lights the same and any adjacent board sections.)

He may now trade one attack for each attempt to trip any adjacent monster. A level 10 Martial Artist with 5 attacks, for instance, could try this up to five times in one turn. To trip a monster he must roll to hit at -1, since this is more difficult than a normal attack. With a successful hit the monster has been tripped and may not attack for one turn while trying to get back up. He may not try to trip any Large monsters (too heavy to trip), any that can fly (They defy gravity.), nor any that are ethereal (too insubstantial). Yes, monsters may attempt to dodge (if they have that ability) a trip attack.

If an adjacent monster has one or more empty spaces behind it, the Martial Artist may attempt a Kick Back Attack instead of a normal attack. He may attempt this as many times as he has attacks (trading 1 attack for each Kick Back Attack). He should roll to hit as normal. If successful, he does normal damage minus 1D6 damage, rolling on the Damage Result Table (DRTR), without any weapon modifiers (but Killing Blow skill still counts), and his target is kicked backwards one square and the Martial Artist takes the monster's original square without any movement cost. If more than one square is available, the Martial Artist chooses which square. This is especially useful to move monsters away from vulnerable or gravely wounded warriors. Also, he may use this method to increase the distance he may travel in one turn. Of course, he sacrifices some of his killing power to do so, because of the -1D6 modifier to damage.

He may trade two attacks for this special attack. He rolls to hit as normal; if successful, in addition to normal damage +1 on his DRTR, he also momentarily paralyzes his target until the monster phase of the next round. The monster may do nothing while paralyzed, not even cast a spell, and is at +2 to be hit for the rest of this round. Because he is so skilled and quick, he may use this skill while using any one-handed weapon, or even while holding nunchaku (It is a one-or-two-handed weapon), but the damage result will not include any weapon modifiers, since he uses his hand to perform the karate chop. In other words, he may do a karate chop by trading two attacks and use a one-handed weapon or nunchaku in the same turn, as long as he has enough attacks.

If he successfully blocks an attack (while using nunchaku and his innate block skill), do an opposing initiative test (initiative + 1D6) versus opponent who hit him (also initiative + 1D6). If he scores greater than his opponent scores, he gets one immediate attack (no death blow)-roll to hit as normal - on his attacker before any more enemy actions, even though this may result in stunning or even killing his opponent before they can use any of their remaining attacks.

A limited # of times during an adventure the Martial Artist may go on a fighting rampage in which he is a killing machine to avoid.

Here are the number of times he may attempt to go on a rampage per adventure: (Based on level/title)

To go on a rampage in any turn while in combat, he must have suffered more than 50% loss of wounds and/or must be afraid or terrified of two or more types of enemies at the same time. If either or both of these conditions exist, he may attempt a courageous rampage at the beginning of any of his turns this combat by successfully passing an initiative test of 8+ (1D6 + Initiative). If he is unsuccessful, he may fight as normal this turn, but has used up one of his attempts at rampaging for this adventure. If he successfully goes on a rampage, it lasts until the combat is over.

While on a rampage, he has twice his normal attacks, twice his normal movement, is immune to all fear and terror. However, at the beginning of each subsequent turn (but, not his first turn on rampage), while on the rampage, he must roll 1D6. If the result is a 1 or 2, he cannot do anything offensively this turn, but may defend himself and is at +1 to be hit by his enemies, while he tries to regain his breath and momentum to continue the rampage. While so engaged/disabled, he may not use the Twirling Nunchaku skill defensively, because he has no offensive attacks to trade; but, he may dodge, block with nunchaku and use strike back (if he has that skill).

To Quit or Not to Quit … a Rampage If he thinks maybe he should end his rampage (in order to meditate, or to avoid the negative effects) before the combat is over, he must make both a successful will power test (WP+1D6) of 8+ and a successful initiative test (I+1D6) of 8+, and spend one full turn doing nothing offensive as he calms down. But, then he must make any fear and terror tests as though the monsters had just appeared. If he fails either test, he may still act as "normal", as normal as he does while in a rampage, this turn; he only spends time calming down once he successfully passes both tests.

One major drawback is that he MAY NOT MEDITATE to gain wounds, while a rampage is still in effect, not even while regaining his breath and momentum, though the Vest of Honor may automatically heal him if he falls to 0 wounds and will restore wounds at the end of each turn if it has the restoration ability. If the Vest of Honor has mystical pockets, they will continue to produce life energy wafers for each monster the martial artist kills up to their maximum capacity and he and other warriors may still benefit from them as usual. All the more reason to visit the Inner Sanctum so that he might have some mystical pockets to enable him to keep rampaging and gaining life force wafers from killing monsters.

He may use this skill either offensively and/or defensively, but must spend two attacks for each use.

OFFENSIVELY, he may trade two attacks for each offensive Twirling Nunchaku attack. So, if he has 6 attacks, because of being on a rampage, he could conceivably do three Twirling Nunchaku attacks. When attacking like this, he gets one attack versus all his adjacent opponents. He must obviously be using nunchaku, and he should roll to hit for each specific type of adjacent monster (not each model, unless all are different) and for each adjacent party member versus their weapon skill. If he hits, he hits all of that type (if a natural 6 to hit he gets to add his Killing Blow to the damage for those particular models); if he misses, he misses all of that type. He cannot avoid rolling to hit any adjacent warriors (Hopefully, they will understand, or he will miss). Once all hit models are determined, he then rolls DRTR ONCE FOR ALL MODELS HIT. THE SAME RESULT APPLIES TO ALL OF THEM. However, since this is not a very specific attack, the DRTR is 2D6-2. Because of the nature of this attack, any out-right kills do not result in a normal death blow.

When using this skill DEFENSIVELY, he must give up two of his attacks during the warriors phase and declare "Twirling Nunchaku Defensive". Furthermore, before any monsters attack at the beginning of the monsters phase, he must declare whom he will be defending. He may defend himself or any adjacent warrior (or even a third party, whom the group has vowed to protect). He may conceivably defend two individuals, himself and one adjacent model or two adjacent models, if he forfeits four of his attacks during the warrior phase. He could defend up to three, himself and two adjacent models for instance, if on a rampage and forfeiting 6 of his normal attacks.

While defending himself thus, all monsters are at -2 to hit him in hand-to-hand combat. He is obviously only able to use nunchaku for this defensive feat. He may still block with this weapon and may still get an opportunity to strike back (at 2D6-2 on DRTR) if he has that skill. Additionally, if a monster rolls a 1 to hit, he gets into the path of the twirling weapon and suffers 2D6-2 DRTR damage as though he were being attacked by the offensive use of the weapon. Also, there is a chance that his weapon may deflect physical projectiles (arrows, blunderbuss shot, thrown spears, even troll vomit - but, at the cost of a set of nunchaku, etc.-"Hmmm.. maybe having an extra set along would be a good idea.") (This would not work against magic, fire, or lightening.) Roll 1D6 for each incoming shot, on a 6+ the projectile is deflected. Again, he should attempt to dodge first.

While defending an adjacent warrior: same as while defending himself, except he must also be adjacent to the attacking monster and the benefits of protection go to the adjacent warrior. Therefore, he may protect a warrior against up to four adjacent monsters and against all physical projectiles (6+ to deflect) except those fired from the opposite side of the one he is protecting.

Whenever monsters appear in the monster phase after no monsters were present-no combat-during the warrior phase, and the Martial Artist is carrying his nunchaku, he may be assumed to be using his Twirling Nunchaku defensively. This can be quite helpful against monsters that ambush. He may declare whom and how many (a whole number = normal attack characteristic divided by 2.) he intends to defend as soon as the monsters appear. We may assume that he has spent the attacks that he didn't need during the warrior phase. If he has this skill and Reaction Strike and/or Strike Back, he may react or strike back, but he must roll 2D6-2 on DRTR as he is confined to fighting with the Twirling Nunchaku skill while defending in this manner. Yes, he may defend in this manner and meditate if needed in the same turn; but, if monsters do indeed show up and attack him, his meditation has been broken this turn. Also, he would have to forfeit the use of Reaction Strike on an adjacent monster to maintain his meditation.

He may now jump (no tests required) over any obstacles, monsters (if he can free from pinning), and warriors while making any normal movement as long as he has enough movement. All the squares jumped count as normal movement. He may jump the number of squares/times per turn as indicated by his BL/Title:

If he has both Jump and Flying Kick/Flying Jump skills, he may use them both in the same turn as long as both have their conditions met. To clarify: the Jump skill uses normal movement, while the Flying Kick/Flying Jump skill uses 2 attacks (in trade).

Once at the beginning of each of his turns, he may yell at his enemies. On a successful yell (5+ on 1D6), he gets +1 to hit this turn as his opponents are distracted and taken slightly off guard. This bonus applies to whatever type of attack he makes and also adds a +1 to DRTR if using martial arts weapons or is fighting unarmed, and while using any martial arts skill attack.