The Plague Lords of Ruel (32 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.

(
Title Page
) Replaced ‘
THE PLAGUE LORDS OF RUEL
’ with ‘
The Plague Lords of Ruel
,’.

(
The Story So Far
) Replaced ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Replaced ‘freestate’ with ‘Freeland’. Replaced ‘monastery of the Kai’ with ‘Monastery of the Kai’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Replaced ‘Kai lord’ with ‘Kai Lord’. Replaced ‘new-found’ with ‘newfound’. Replaced ‘left-handed’ with ‘Left-handed’. Replaced ‘right-handed’ with ‘Right-handed’. Replaced ‘north-east’ with ‘northeast’. Replaced ‘Gournen and’ with ‘Gournen, and’. Replaced ‘Ragador’ with ‘Ragadorn’. Replaced ‘Arch-Druid’ with ‘Arch Druid’. Combined the last two paragraphs into one. Replaced ‘comprised’ with ‘were part of’.

(
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’. Replaced ‘To do this take a pencil and, with your eyes closed, point with the blunt end of it on to the
Random Number Table
on the last page of this book’ with ‘To do this, pick a number from the
Random Number Table
’. Replaced ‘fall to zero’ with ‘fall to zero or below’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘ie,’ with ‘i.e.’. Replaced ‘These scores may include Weaponmastery, Curing, and Psi-surge bonuses.’ with ‘These scores may include Lore-circle bonuses. You may also benefit from the Disciplines that you've mastered (e.g. Weaponmastery, Curing, and Psi-surge bonuses)’. Replaced ‘Chart (you’ with ‘Chart. (You’. Replaced ‘Items).’ with ‘Items.)’. Italicised ‘Lone Wolf Grand Master’ when referring to the series.

(
Grand Master Disciplines
) Replaced ‘gods’ with ‘Gods’. Replaced ‘venoms and’ with ‘venoms, and’. 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 below.’ 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 ‘Magi-Magic’ with ‘Magi-magic’. Replaced ‘battle magic’ with ‘battle-magic’. Replaced ‘artifacts’ with ‘artefacts’. Replaced ‘THE CAPTIVES OF KAAG’ with ‘
The Captives of Kaag
’. Replaced ‘weapons listed overleaf’ with ‘weapons listed below’. Replaced ‘disciplines’ with ‘Disciplines’. Replaced both occurrences of ‘left-handed magic’ with ‘Left-handed magic’. 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 ‘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. Italicised ‘Lone Wolf Grand Master’ when referring to the series. 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
) Removed ‘(see the inside front cover of this book)’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘arrow’ or ‘arrows’ with ‘Arrow’. Amended the text to correctly reflect the +5
COMBAT SKILL
bonus for Grand Weaponmastery. Replaced both occurrences of ‘safe-keeping’ with ‘safekeeping’. Replaced ‘eg,’ with ‘e.g.’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘quiver’ with ‘Quiver’. Replaced ‘combat, therefore’ with ‘combat; therefore’. Replaced ‘arrows’ with ‘Arrows’. Replaced ‘Grand Weaponmastery with a Bow’ with ‘Grand Weaponmastery with Bow’. Replaced ‘weapons list’ with ‘
Weapons List
’. Replaced ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Replaced ‘a sword or 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. 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 ‘reduced to zero’ with ‘reduced to zero or below’. 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 ‘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’. Italicised ‘Lone Wolf Grand Master’ when referring to the series.

(
Improved Grand Master Disciplines
) Removed the quotation marks from ‘Improved Grand Master Disciplines’. Replaced ‘Grand Mastery you will’ with ‘Grand Mastery, you will’.

(
Grand Master's Wisdom
) Replaced ‘gods’ with ‘Gods’.

(
1
) Replaced ‘Fryelund forest’ with ‘Fryelund Forest’. Replaced ‘Mogaruith, then’ with ‘Mogaruith, and then’. Replaced ‘uncork it, then’ with ‘uncork it, and then’.

(
2
) Replaced ‘Extermius’ with ‘Exterminus’.

(
3
) Replaced ‘clang’ with ‘
clang
’.

(
7
) Replaced ‘crease’ with ‘cease’. Replaced ‘fowards’ with ‘forwards’. Replaced ‘longer, then’ with ‘longer, and then’.

(
8
) Moved the Animal Mastery choice into the first position.

(
10
) Replaced ‘Cener's evil plan’ with ‘Ceners' evil plan’.

(
11
) Replaced ‘semi-circular’ with ‘semicircular’. Replaced ‘Ruel war-dogs’ with ‘Ruel War-dogs’. Replaced ‘wag dogs’ with ‘war-dogs’. Replaced ‘charge’ with ‘charges’ in the illustrations caption.

(
13
) Replaced ‘arching’ with ‘arcing’.

(
16
) Replaced ‘sub-conscious’ with ‘subconscious’. Replaced ‘curing’ with ‘Curing’. Replaced ‘Baylon's Fungi’ with ‘Baylon's Bough Fungi’ as this is how you are told to record it in (cf.
The Prisoners of Time
Section 146.

(
17
) Replaced ‘Kai lord’ with ‘Kai Lord’.

(
18
) Replaced ‘perpetuated’ with ‘perpetrated’. Replaced ‘mid-air, then’ with ‘mid-air, and then’. Replaced ‘Backpack item’ with ‘Backpack Item’.

(
19
) Replaced ‘another, then’ with ‘another, and then’.

(
22
) Replaced ‘dusty ground, then his’ with ‘dusty ground; then his’. Replaced ‘scrabbling his throat’ with ‘scrabbling at his throat’.

(
24
) Replaced ‘it red’ with ‘its red’. Replaced ‘pit agarashi’ with ‘Pit Agarashi’. Replaced ‘it red eyes’ with ‘its red eyes’. Replaced ‘death cry’ with ‘death-cry’. Replaced ‘immobile, then its’ with ‘immobile; then its’.

(
25
) Replaced ‘side-step’ with ‘sidestep’. Replaced ‘you, then’ with ‘you, and then’.

(
27
) Replaced ‘Drakkar warrior’ with ‘Drakkarim warrior’ to reflect
standard usage
.

(
31
) Replaced both occurrences of ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘pit agarashi’ with ‘Pit Agarashi’.

(
34
) Replaced ‘Ghorkas’ with ‘ghorkas’.

(
35
) Replaced ‘as it they were’ with ‘as if they were’. Replaced ‘Cener druid’ with ‘Cener Druid’. Italicised ‘
jazak
’. Replaced ‘cavern floor, then the’ with ‘cavern floor; then the’. Replaced ‘patrol of six Vazhag file’ with ‘patrol of six Vazhag files’.

(
37
) Replaced ‘blood-lust’ with ‘bloodlust’. Replaced ‘them muttering, then’ with ‘them muttering; the’.

(
39
) Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’.

(
40
) Replaced ‘god’ with ‘God’.

(
41
) Replaced ‘suface’ with ‘surface’. Replaced ‘Cener druid’ with ‘Cener Druid’. Replaced ‘aproaches’ with ‘approaches’.

(
43
) Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘quiver’ with ‘Quiver’. Replaced ‘arrows’ with ‘Arrows’.

(
47
) Replaced ‘eg’ with ‘i.e.’.

(
48
) Replaced ‘riddle, then’ with ‘riddle, and then’. Replaced ‘senses tells’ with ‘senses tell’. Replaced ‘turn to the page number’ with ‘turn to the entry number’ for clarity and consistency.

(
50
) Replaced ‘seeth’ with ‘seethe’. Replaced ‘gasses’ with ‘gases’. Replaced ‘clang’ with ‘
clang
’. Replaced ‘virus, and its vaccine, are’ with ‘virus and its vaccine are’.

(
51
) Replaced ‘Elder spell-word’ with ‘Elder Magi spell-word’. Replaced ‘battle spell’ with ‘battle-spell’.

(
53
) Replaced ‘feet, then’ with ‘feet; then’.

(
55
) Replaced ‘clang’ with ‘
clang
’.

(
58
) Replaced ‘jar of Black Berries’ with ‘Jar of Black Berries’. Replaced ‘Backpack item’ with ‘Backpack Item’.

(
61
) Replaced ‘set roaring’ with ‘sent roaring’. Replaced ‘sneers, ‘I’ with ‘sneers. ‘I’.

(
62
) Replaced ‘rib-cage’ with ‘rib cage’.

(
67
) Replaced ‘sixth senses alert’ with ‘Sixth Sense alerts’.

(
71
) Replaced ‘impact, then’ with ‘impact, and then’.

(
72
) Replaced ‘Cener druid’ with ‘Cener Druid’. Replaced ‘above, or’ with ‘above or’.

(
74
) Replaced ‘Vazhag comes’ with ‘Vazhag come’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

(
77
) Replaced ‘Remember to record your choice on your
Action Chart
. A Cener Robe takes up two spaces in your Backpack; a Cener Mask takes one space. If you already carry the maximum number of Backpack items allowed, you must discard one item in favour of the Mask and/or Robe’ with ‘Record the Cener Robe and Cener Mask in the margin of your
Action Chart
. As you are wearing these items rather than carrying them, you need not discard any Backpack Items in their favour.’. According to the wording of this section, you take and immediately don the Robe and Mask, so there seems no reason to discard Backpack Items in their favour as if you were stowing them in your Backpack.

(
80
) Replaced ‘energy, then’ with ‘energy, and then’.

(
83
) Added ‘(unless you possess the Discipline of Grand Huntmastery)’.

(
84
) Replaced ‘animal control’ with ‘Animal Control’. Replaced ‘divination’ with ‘Divination’. Replaced ‘control, to’ with ‘Control to’. Replaced ‘these creature’ with ‘these creatures’.

(
85
) Replaced ‘dwellings, and’ with ‘dwellings and’.

(
86
) Replaced ‘Acolytes of Vashna:
(One with Medallion of Protection)
’ with ‘Acolytes of Vashna (One with Medallion of Protection)’.

(
87
) Replaced ‘pathsmanship’ with ‘Pathsmanship’.

(
91
) Replaced ‘If you possess Grand Mastery of Kai-surge, add 3 to the number you have chosen. If your current
ENDURANCE
points score is 20 or higher, add a further 2 to your score.’ with ‘If your current
ENDURANCE
points score is 20 or higher, add 2 to your score. If you possess Grand Mastery of Kai-surge, add a further 3 to the number you have chosen.’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
96
) Replaced ‘Cener druid’ with ‘Cener Druid’. Replaced ‘bridge timbers, then’ with ‘bridge timbers; then’.

(
98
) Replaced ‘Cener druids’ with ‘Cener Druids’.

(
99
) Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’.

(
100
) Replaced ‘If the combat takes 6 rounds or more’ with ‘If you win and the combat takes 6 rounds or more’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.