When Dark Elf turns into Orc, he changes Dark and Implosing trait to Loathsome and Twisted and Spite to Hatred. But the problem is that First Born trait remains and it conflicts with Loathsome and Twisted for they both determine Stat maximums and Stride (also Orcs have no Hatred trait and Hatred is a part of LaT trait). How to deal with it?
Can this Orc (a former Elf) change other common elven traits into common orc traits via trait vote?
There’s no Swimming skill. What should I roll to swim?
Good catch! It seems like you have some interpretive decisions to make. If you take the stride and stat caps from Loathsome and Twisted, the transformation is more pronounced. If you keep the First Born stride and stat caps, it’s (a little) more subtle.
Certainly, Spite becomes Hatred regardless. That seems pretty straightforward.
Yes! There is (technically) no limit to the what traits can be added, lost, or changed in the vote.
It’d hard to know without knowing the parameters of a given test, but I’d go with Speed or maybe Forte.
Thank you. One more question: There are only skill songs in Common skill list, not spell songs. Can starting Elf get spell songs that absent in his LPs (Laments in particular) with his Common skill points (from his “born” LP)?
One thing missed in the swimming question is that swimming is rarely the question being asked.
Can you cross the rushing river? Agility? Power? Maybe Currents-wise?
Can you beat the other person to your boat? Speed!
Can you stay afloat? Forte probably
Swimming as a skill often asks the question “well do you not drown”, and that feels like a question the GM should Say Yes to. It’s kinda like the Running skill. I could see call-ons or training skills to represent swimming ability though.
One more question. Mortal Wound is calculated from Forte and Power and advances as they do.
First, How to calculate the physical tolerances from Mortal wound?
Say, my character has Power G4 and Forte G6. Mortal woung then is G11. Should I start counting the Superficial wound physical tolerance from Black1 or from Grey1?
Second if it starts from Grey, then how can I calculate tolerances for a Dwarf with Power G8 and Forte G9? Cause he gets MW G17 (or W1).
Hi there. Take another look at Heroic Mortal Wound on page 546:
If the character has a gray mortal wound, the superficial wound is placed in the black shade at the full Forte exponent. Add the Forte exponent to that again. That’s the light wound tolerance. Traumatic goes to the left of mortal, then severe, skip a pip and then place the midi.
So your character would have a B6 superficial, B12 Light, G7 Midi, G9 Severe, G10 Traumatic, G11 Mortal.
One more thing. If in character burning the character gets a trait that’s definitely not actual for his last LP, does he get it anyway till the first trait vote?
Say Slave to the Dark gets Fearful Respect of the Servants, but this LP is just a step for others. And if the Orc is a Servant himself, doesn’t this trait contradict his current position?
A. People can be contradictory. People pick up all kind of irrational behavior and ideation that they never sweat out in therapy.
B. No. He learned the hard way just how dangerous the other Servants are, and they’re still that dangerous. It’s a cut-throat, dog-eat-dog kind of cult.
B1. Character traits are open to some degree of interpretation or development. There’s room for what might bave been a bowing-and-scraping kind of Fearful Respect to grow into a never-underestimate-another-Servant kind of Fearful Respect.
EDIT: To clarify, I’m assuming you mean a trait listed first on a lifepath which is therefore mandatory. Other traits don’t have to be purchased generally.