The Darke Crusade (31 page)

1. Add your
   COMBAT SKILL
   to any extra points given to you by your Grand Master Disciplines.
   
2. Subtract the
   COMBAT SKILL
   of your enemy from this total. This number = Combat Ratio.
   
3. Pick a number from the
   Random Number Table
   .
   
4. Turn to the
   Combat Results Table
   .
   
5. Find your Combat Ratio on the top of the chart and cross-reference to the random number you have picked. (E indicates loss of
   ENDURANCE
   points to Enemy. LW indicates loss of
   ENDURANCE
   points to Lone Wolf.)
   
6. Continue the combat from Stage 3 until one character is dead. This is when the
   ENDURANCE
   points of either character falls to 0 or below.
   

1. You may only do this when the text of the adventure offers you the opportunity.
   
2. You undertake one round of combat in the usual way. All points lost by the enemy are ignored; only Lone Wolf loses the
   ENDURANCE
   points.
   
3. If the book offers the chance of taking evasive action in place of combat, it can be taken in the first round of combat or any subsequent round.
   

We have taken our unique opportunity to correct errors and to enforce a standard of English usage. We list our changes here. If you see anything that needs correction, please
contact
the Project Aon Staff.

(
Blurb
) Replaced ‘
THE DARKE CRUSADE
’ with ‘
The Darke Crusade
’.

(
The Story So Far …
) Replaced ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Replaced ‘feted’ with ‘fêted’. Replaced both occurrences of ‘Left-Handed’ with ‘Left-handed’. Replaced ‘Right-Handed’ with ‘Right-handed’. Replaced ‘freestate’ with ‘Freeland’. Replaced both occurrences of ‘doomstone’ with ‘Doomstone’. Replaced ‘Kai lord’ with ‘Kai Lord’. Replaced ‘monastery of the Kai’ with ‘Monastery of the Kai’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Replaced ‘new-found’ with ‘newfound’. Added a paragraph break after ‘their own extinction’ in line with this section in other Grand Master books. Replaced ‘north-east’ with ‘northeast’. Replaced ‘Old Kingdom Magic’ with ‘Old Kingdom magic’. Replaced ‘Akagazad and’ with ‘Akagazad, and’. Replaced ‘Banedon, then’ with ‘Banedon, and then’. Replaced ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Magic’ with ‘magic’. Replaced ‘comprised’ with ‘were part of’. Replaced ‘he replied, ‘Were the’ with ‘he replied, ‘were the’. Replaced ‘my Lord’ with ‘my lord’.

(
The Game Rules
) Removed ‘ that you will find in the front of this book. For ease of use, and for further adventuring, it is recommended that you photocopy these pages’. Removed ‘ on the last page of this book’. Replaced both occurrences of ‘(ie’ with ‘(i.e.’. Replaced ‘fall to zero’ with ‘fall to zero or below’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘Chart (you’ with ‘Chart. (You’. Replaced ‘Items).’ with ‘Items.)’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf Kai’ with ‘
Lone Wolf Kai
’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Magnakai’ with ‘
Magnakai
’. Replaced ‘Grand Master series’ with ‘
Lone Wolf Grand Master
series’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf Grand Master series’ with ‘
Lone Wolf Grand Master
series’. Added ‘Silver Bracers’ and ‘Korlinium Scabbard’ to the list of items permitted to be brought over from the
Lone Wolf Kai
and
Lone Wolf Magnakai
books in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
Grand Master Disciplines
) Replaced ‘Magi-Magic’ with ‘Magi-magic’. Replaced ‘gods’ with ‘Gods’. Replaced ‘When you enter combat with one of your Grand Master weapons, you add 5 points to your
COMBAT SKILL
. The rank of Kai Grand Defender, with which you begin the Grand Master series, means you are skilled in
two
of the weapons listed overleaf.’ with ‘When you enter combat with one of your Grand Weaponmastery weapons, you add 5 points to your
COMBAT SKILL
. The rank of Kai Grand Defender, with which you begin the
Lone Wolf Grand Master
series, means you are supremely efficient in the use of two of the weapons listed below. For each book that you complete in the
Lone Wolf Grand Master
series (Books 13–20), you will gain mastery of an additional weapon. For example, if you complete
The Plague Lords of Ruel
and have the Grand Master Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery at the beginning of the next
Lone Wolf Grand Master
book, you may choose an additional Weapon to gain mastery of.’ in harmony with the Collector's Editions. Replaced ‘gases, corrosive’ with ‘gases, and corrosive’. Replaced ‘
COMBAT SKILL
is reduced to 8 points or less’ with ‘
ENDURANCE
is reduced to 8 points or less’ as clarified in
Lone Wolf Club Newsletter No.24
. Replaced ‘battle magic’ with ‘battle-magic’. Replaced ‘venoms and’ with ‘venoms, and’. Replaced ‘artifacts’ with ‘artefacts’. Replaced ‘fortresses increases’ with ‘fortresses increase’. Replaced ‘body, increases’ with ‘body, increase’. Added ‘These skills include the basic use of Old Kingdom Spells such as
Shield
,
Power Word
, and
Invisible Fist
.’ as found in the Magi-magic section in Books 19 and 20. Added ‘These spells include
Lightning Hand
,
Levitation
, and
Mind Charm
.’ as found in the Kai-alchemy section in Books 19 and 20. Replaced ‘smell and’ with ‘smell, and’. Added ‘ If you have chosen the Discipline of Grand Huntmastery as one of your skills, you will not need to tick off a Meal when instructed to eat.’ to the section on Grand Huntmastery. Replaced each occurrence of ‘battle wounds’ with ‘battle-wounds’. Added Brian Williams' Grand Master Disciplines illustrations from later books. Replaced ‘will be of use’ with ‘may be of use’. Added ‘If you have the Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery with Bow, you may add 5 to any number that you pick from the
Random Number Table
, when using the Bow.’ from the
Equipment
section. Replaced ‘Kai and Magnakai Disciplines’ with ‘Kai & Magnakai Disciplines’ for consistency with later books. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf Grand Master’ with ‘
Lone Wolf Grand Master
’. Replaced ‘the next Grand Master adventure’ with ‘the next
Lone Wolf Grand Master
adventure’. Replaced ‘darkness, and have’ with ‘darkness and have’. Replaced ‘plants, and have’ with ‘plants and have’. Replaced ‘Duration, and the protection of his inanimate body, increase’ with ‘Duration and the protection of his inanimate body increase’.

(
Equipment
) Replaced both occurrences of ‘safe-keeping’ with ‘safekeeping’. Replaced ‘(eg,’ with ‘(e.g.’. Replaced five occurrences of ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced two occurrences of ‘arrows’ with ‘Arrows’. Replaced eight occurrences of ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Inserted the explanation of how to use Gold Crowns. Removed ‘ (see the inside front cover of this book)’. Amended the text to correctly reflect the +5
COMBAT SKILL
bonus for Grand Weaponmastery. Replaced ‘quiver’ with ‘Quiver’. Replaced ‘combat, therefore’ with ‘combat; therefore’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘Grand Weaponmastery with a Bow’ with ‘Grand Weaponmastery with Bow’. Replaced ‘a sword or an axe’ with ‘a Sword or an Axe’. Replaced ‘weapons’ with ‘Weapons’. Replaced ‘weapon’ with ‘Weapon’. Deleted ‘If you have the Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery with Bow, you may add 3 to any number that you pick from the
Random Number Table
, when using the Bow.’. Replaced ‘record these on your
Weapons List
’ with ‘record these on your
Action Chart
’ for clarity. Replaced ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Added ‘You may only use one Weapon at a time in combat.’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
Rules for Combat
) Removed ‘ on the inside back cover of this book’. Replaced ‘on the page after the
Random Number Table
’ with ‘in the back of this book’. In the example combat, changed Lone Wolf's initial
COMBAT SKILL
to 27 and corrected the Kai Surge bonus to +8
COMBAT SKILL
. Replaced ‘reduced to zero’ with ‘reduced to zero or below’. Replaced ‘points reduced’ with ‘points possibly reduced’. Replaced ‘at which point the one with the zero score is declared dead.’ with ‘at which point that combatant is declared dead.’.

(
Levels of Grand Mastership
) Replaced ‘rank and titles’ with ‘ranks and titles’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf Grand Master’ with ‘
Lone Wolf Grand Master
’.

(
Improved Grand Master Disciplines
) Replaced ‘discipline’ with ‘Discipline’. Replaced ‘(e.g. Broadsword, Quarterstaff, Spear etc)’ with ‘(i.e. Broadsword, Quarterstaff, and Spear)’. Replaced ‘(i.e. arrows, axes, crossbow bolts etc)’ with ‘(e.g. arrows, axes, crossbow bolts)’ in the
Halt Missile
section. Added the description of the improvements for Grand Guardian. Removed the quotation marks around ‘Improved Grand Master Disciplines’. Replaced ‘Brotherhood spells’ with ‘Brotherhood Spells’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘range and numbers of insects so affected increases’ with ‘range and number of insects so affected increase’. Replaced ‘whilst fighting an enemy in unarmed combat’ with ‘whilst fighting an enemy’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
Grand Master's Wisdom
) Replaced ‘Pick your four Grand’ with ‘Pick your Grand’. Replaced ‘helotry of Nyras’ with ‘Helotry of Nyras’.

(
1
) Replaced ‘friend, then’ with ‘friend, and then’. Replaced ‘says, ‘This’ with ‘says, ‘this’.

(
2
) Replaced ‘Drakkar sword’ with ‘Drakkarim sword’ to reflect
standard usage
.

(
3
) Replaced ‘guide, then’ with ‘guide; then’.

(
6
) Replaced ‘tunnel stalker’ with ‘Tunnel Stalker’.

(
8
) Replaced ‘pause, then’ with ‘pause; then’. Replaced ‘suggests that he escorts’ with ‘suggests that he escort’.

(
10
) Replaced ‘potions’ with ‘Potions’.

(
11
) Replaced ‘Pathsmanship, and’ with ‘Pathsmanship and’. Replaced both occurrences of ‘wintery’ with ‘wintry’. Replaced ‘draft’ with ‘draught’. Replaced ‘Discipline, or’ with ‘Discipline or’.

(
12
) Replaced ‘Tukodaks’ with ‘Tukodak’.

(
13
) Replaced ‘secluded cover’ with ‘secluded cove’. Replaced ‘the Captain’ with ‘the captain’.

(
14
) Replaced ‘to try and’ with ‘to try to’.

(
16
) Replaced ‘the cabin, then’ with ‘the cabin; then’. Replaced ‘the cork and’ with ‘the cork, and’.

(
17
) Removed the quotation marks around ‘Halt Missile’. Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’. Replaced ‘mid-air, then’ with ‘mid-air; then’.

(
18
) Replaced ‘tunnel stalker’ with ‘Tunnel Stalker’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Removed ‘ or higher’. Replaced ‘wintery’ with ‘wintry’. Replaced ‘Kai training’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘Discipline, or’ with ‘Discipline or’.

(
19
) Replaced ‘feet, ‘we’ with ‘feet. ‘We’. Replaced ‘him so, then’ with ‘him so; then’. Replaced ‘Hurry, Captain’ with ‘Hurry, captain’.

(
20
) Replaced ‘Bow, or’ with ‘Bow or’.

(
21
) Replaced ‘words, then’ with ‘words, and then’.

(
22
) Replaced ‘approaching and’ with ‘approaching, and’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘Kai-surge, and’ with ‘Kai-surge and’. Replaced ‘skills, or’ with ‘skills or’.

(
23
) Replaced ‘raised’ with ‘razed’. Replaced ‘woodsmoke’ with ‘wood smoke’. Replaced ‘incident and, shortly’ with ‘incident, and shortly’. Replaced ‘craft, then’ with ‘craft; then’. Replaced ‘the Captain’ with ‘the captain’.

(
24
) Replaced ‘mawtaw’ with ‘Mawtaw’. Replaced ‘pathsmanship’ with ‘Pathsmanship’.

(
25
) Replaced ‘or, failing’ with ‘or failing’. Replaced ‘assauge’ with ‘assuage’. Replaced both occurrences of ‘ante-chamber’ with ‘antechamber’. Replaced ‘succeed, therefore’ with ‘succeed; therefore’. Replaced ‘Tozaz forest’ with ‘Tozaz Forest’.

(
27
) Replaced ‘draft’ with ‘draught’.

(
30
) Replaced ‘breath, then’ with ‘breath; then’.

(
31
) Replaced ‘aimed ready’ with ‘aimed, ready’. Replaced ‘It is near’ with ‘He is near’. Replaced ‘Kai rank of Grand Guardian’ with ‘rank of Kai Grand Guardian’.

(
32
) Replaced ‘The Captain’ with ‘The captain’.

(
33
) Replaced both occurrences of ‘floroa’ with ‘Floroa’. Replaced ‘If you wish to take some of this fungi with you, record it on your
Action Chart
’ with ‘If you wish to take some of this fungi with you, record a single dose on your
Action Chart
’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
34
) Replaced ‘the Captain's’ with ‘the captain's’.

(
35
) Replaced ‘weapon, then’ with ‘weapon, and then’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘Drakkar lancer’ with ‘Drakkarim lancer’ to reflect
standard usage
.

(
36
) Replaced ‘steps and, as’ with ‘steps, and as’. Replaced ‘new-found’ with ‘newfound’. Replaced ‘breath, then’ with ‘breath, and then’.

(
37
) Removed the quotation marks around ‘crack’.

(
38
) Replaced both occurrences of ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘arrow, then’ with ‘Arrow; then’. Replaced ‘suspecting trickery, then slowly you relax; they’ with ‘suspecting trickery. Then slowly you relax; they’.

(
39
) Replaced ‘remnants have’ with ‘remnants had’. Replaced ‘seige’ with ‘siege’.

(
40
) Replaced ‘click, then’ with ‘
click
; then’.

(
41
) Replaced ‘treeline’ with ‘tree-line’. Replaced ‘psi-surge’ with ‘Psi-surge’. Replaced ‘timberwolf’ with ‘timber wolf’.

(
43
) Replaced ‘directions and, with’ with ‘directions, and with’. Replaced ‘at worse’ with ‘at worst’.

(
45
) Replaced ‘west and’ with ‘west, and’. Replaced ‘Prarg and’ with ‘Prarg, and’. Replaced ‘Antah and’ with ‘Antah, and’. Replaced ‘agreement then’ with ‘agreement; then’. Replaced ‘wagons and’ with ‘wagons, and’.

(
47
) Replaced ‘silence, then’ with ‘silence; then’. Replaced ‘not, or’ with ‘not or’.

(
48
) Replaced ‘pathsmanship’ with ‘Pathsmanship’.

(
50
) Replaced ‘anger and’ with ‘anger, and’. Replaced ‘and, judging’ with ‘and judging’. Replaced ‘shoulder and, as’ with ‘shoulder, and as’.

(
51
) Replaced ‘icy-cold’ with ‘icy cold’. Replaced ‘t'is’ with ‘ 'tis’. Replaced ‘much-needed’ with ‘much needed’. Replaced ‘side, then’ with ‘side, and then’.

(
56
) Replaced ‘air, then’ with ‘air, and then’. Replaced ‘sense immediately that the coin is showing heads’ with ‘sense immediately what the coin is showing’ to avoid inconsistencies with Sections
117
and
298
.