Combat Rounds

(Book 1, p43)

In this section we expand upon the actions that may be performed in one combat round or, in the case of things that take longer than one combat round, the length of time it takes to perform that action.

Actions that take One CR (in addition to those listed in Book 1)

Mount a horse (though, arguably, one who is not a Knight*, Barbarian* or Warlock* might take 2 CR through inexperence!)
Climb a distance equivalent to Reflexes/3, rounded up (i.e. a PC with Reflexes of 18 could climb 6 metres, whereas a PC with Reflexes of 3 could climb 1). Exception: Assassins* can climb as if their Reflexes were 18, regardless of the actual score. Note: "Climb" in this context includes ascending, descending or scaling laterally. Also: a difficulty factor roll still applies for the climb (see Book 1 pp64-67).

Actions that take More Than One CR (in addition to those listed in Book 1)

Loading an arbalest to fire (takes 4 intervening CRs between shots.
Put on armour (e.g. from being asleep) - 3 CRs for all armour except padded leather, which takes 2 CR.

Notes

Some GMs permit PCs to make witty remarks, or swordplay comments, whilst they fight notwithstanding that it would arguably take 6 seconds (or more!) to say such things!

I have always found descending faster than ascending or bouldering (scaling laterally). I also believe the speed you move climbing is closely related to the difficulty of the rockface...

I would suggest you can climb a number of meters equal to half the difference between the difficulty factor of the climb and your Reflexes with a minimum of 1 metre per round.

I.e. Reflexes 18 climbing a dangling rope (difficulty 6) could move 6m per round. (In my experience this would have to be a knotted rope to be only difficulty 6!)

When descending you might use their normal climbing speed but give them an extra metre of distance covered.

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Combat Rounds

Actions that take One CR (in addition to those listed in Book 1)

Actions that take More Than One CR (in addition to those listed in Book 1)

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