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<P>How do you think the executioner skill should be used?</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Executioner</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An Executioner is skilled in killing bound or helpless targets AND in the effective use of torture. The damage plus applies when the target is unaware of the Executioner or unable to defend itself. The effect is as specified below.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Type of Hit Scored </SPAN></B></P></TD>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Normal or Shield *<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B></B></SPAN></P></TD>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">EL*</SPAN></B><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"> </SPAN></I><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">2</SPAN></B></P></TD></TR>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Severe Hit<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B></B></SPAN></P></TD>
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">*In this circumstance, any Shield Hit is a Normal Hit. When the skill is used against a defenseless or immobile target, the <B>EL*2 </B>is subtracted from the attack roll.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Torture allows the Executioner to question prisoners. The Prisoner answers the question, with at least partial truth, if the Executioner rolls:</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">The time to torture and ask one question is <B>1D6 </B>tactical turns. The damage inflicted in doing so is <B>1D3 </B>hit points. No Combat Experience is gained for damage scored in this way. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">The Executioner is capable of telling when he is bringing his subject close to death. He may stop at any time. The chance the victim passes out is a percentage of his total hit points.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">EXAMPLE</SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"> </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">— The torturer has inflicted 13 hits on a person who takes 20. There is a 65% chance the person passes out. The person will be unconscious 1/2 hour per hit point inflicted.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">IMPORTANT<B> — </B>The chance the victim passes out is rolled after each damage inflicting session. The best members of this profession are also skilled as healers, herbalists and scholars of anatomy.</SPAN></P>
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<P>Say the character has captured and bound a victim,and uses the skill to kill them with, say, a dagger. Does the skill still apply? Or must he use an executioner's axe. Keep in mind that under those circumstances, -20 is subtracted from the to-hit roll, as well as the damage class increasing by one (deadly becomes fatal, severe becomes Deadly, etc.). Now, that -20 and the damage class thing happens for ANYONE attacking the victim. The executioner, if successful with his skill, would also get the EL*2 subtracted from the attack roll (he knows best how to control the victim and keep him from squirming?) AND the extra damage listed above.</P>
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<P>How would you determine the dificulty level of the execution? Other restrictions?</P>
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