(LOVE th' Ogress drawing!  NICE work...classic stuff!)

Buck looks over at the ape at the bar who isn't heaving..."How about you buddy?  Since you seemed to have enough dignity NOT to eat one of these monstrosities perhaps YOU would like to have a drink with me...maybe give me a NORMAL response concerning this rather bleak abode, maybe shoot a game of billiards?"

Buck keeps his hand near his holster in case he has to draw down on the Ogress or even the ape.....but he doesn't like to appear concerned, so he converses but is on the draw in his mind.

Quote from: Rondo;239943(LOVE th' Ogress drawing!  NICE work...classic stuff!)

[The Ogress is by a guy known to me only as Ube the Pirate.  It was submitted to me for my sorta stalled out EC mega-module.  It is classic though, you got that part right.]

"Creature..here..to..eat lunch......not to BE lunch!  Creature not like mean ogress!!  AAAAAAARGH!!!"

The creature intends to lift the ogress and send her sliding head first down the bar crashing into glasses, plates, customers, and vomit as she goes- wild west saloon fight style!  

Let me know if that's a attack roll, lesser feat, or greater feat, or whatever else.

[The Creature needs to roll an attack and a Feat roll -- just tell me the % on the second roll.

[I'll wait for Doc and Coffee to chime in before resolving actions, hits, etc.]

Creature rolls....

Melee Attack (rated 107%) rolls 27% !

Feat (rated 100% Lesser/ 31% Greater) rolls 33%

edit- forgot to add in my hiccup adjustment.  So the attack roll is a 32%, still easily within my rating, and the feat roll is a 38% and awaits the Journey Master's adjudication.

OOC- Coffee, for those occassion when you don't have your dice with you, there are lots of sites like this out there, this is the one I use:

http://yoav.org/dice/

(If nobody is taking a swing at Buck, he's just gonna fold his arms and check this out.  If this thing starts turing into a saloon fight, I'm in...otherwise, just gonna step over the burger-bits and IF Pixie is still on her ass in the muck, maybe offer to help her up.)

Zarko, his meal finished and retained, gets out of the Ogress's landing zone. He sidles up to Buck, shoves a toothpick in his mouth, and says:

"Yeah, we could get a drink." He gestures back toward the action. "But let's see how this turns out first, okay?"

He grins.

"Let's watch our boy in action here", Buck says to Zarko with a grin, pointing at The Creature.

[These are the EZ EC grappling rules I came up with.  If you guys don't want to see this sort of rules junk in the In Character Thread let me know and I'll cut and paste it over to an OOC thread.  To my mind part of the fun of this is figuring out what this game can do, but if you find it's at all distracting I totally get that.]

QuoteRules for grappling and wrestling:

Attacker makes a melee ATT roll to initiate the grapple, which proceeds with a series of opposed Feat rolls.  Each round one grappler is the aggressor and the other is the defender.

Feat roll results:

Aggressor makes Lesser Feat roll, defender fails: Aggressor scores normal unarmed damage if wished, with no Saving Throw by the defender. Defender is pinned or held and unable to act for the round.  Advantage stays with aggressor if desired.
Defender makes Lesser Feat roll, aggressor fails: Advantage changes!  Defender can either break the hold or pin the aggressor and score normal unarmed damage if desired.  The agressor gets a Saving Throw against this damage.  If grappling continues the defender becomes the aggressor in the next round.
Both combatants make Lesser Feat roll: Both score normal unarmed damage if wished, both can Save against this damage.  The lower roll becomes the aggressor in the next round.

If either combatant rolls a Great Feat they may automatically hit with a melee attack or perform a more spectacular maneuver such as a body slam, suplex, throw, etc.  This is based on the character's stated intention at the beginning of the round.  If they haven't stated a special combat move they may only take the automatic melee attack.  JM adjudicates the results, especially in cases where both fighters make a Great Feat roll.

Creative fighters may find other abilities such as Sneak Attack, Sneak, etc useful in grappling but that is up to the player to suggest and JM to adjudicate.

[Proper update tomorrow morning.]

Buck keeps a wary eye on the ogress as he checks on Pixie.  He helps her roll out from beneath the hobling who'd fainted across her, and pulls her to her feet.  She gives him a quick grin.  

Across the bar the messenger goblins scatter as the slavering cook charges them.  One of them is not quite fast enough, and the ogress snatches him up by the strap of his shoulder bag and neatly decapitates him with her cleaver.  

"Meeaat," she groans, drooling.

She's about to sink her fangs into the limp goblin's shoulder when the Creature slams into her.  Dropping the goblin she reels around to face her attacker, even as he grunts and hoists her onto the bar.  The Creature tries to slide the ogress across he bartop with a monstrous heave, but she wraps her gnarled and hairy thighs around his waist, smooshing his face into her belly.  Her stomach growls loudly.

The Creature says something, but "Gfpmph...Uggmpha" is all anyone can make out as his face is firmly planted in the Ogress's beer gut.  

He tries to lift the Ogress up off the bar and then slam her back down.

Melee Attack Roll: 60% Success!

Feat Roll: 30% Success!...but then the Creature looses his grip for a second as he hiccups...35%..only good for a lesser feat!

Buck quits grinning.  He makes sure Pixie is standing and alright then he leaps towards the action to help Creature.  Buck thinks to himself, "too much confusion...might accidently hit a bystander or Creature", as he removes his hand from his holster...Might I roll against "Clue" or something, to see if there's any formidable chopping or slashing weapons in all this foray laying around?

Quote from: Rondo;240607Buck thinks to himself, "too much confusion...might accidently hit a bystander or Creature", as he removes his hand from his holster...Might I roll against "Clue" or something, to see if there's any formidable chopping or slashing weapons in all this foray laying around?

[Buck and Zarko are at the opposite end of the bar from the Creature and the ogress.  You guess you have a pretty clear shot.  If you want to roll Clue go for it.]