Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Gamekeeper turned Poacher...

POACHER (#1/31, #275/365) [POT]

SKILL: 7

STAMINA : 6

ATTACKS: 1

WEAPON: See below

ARMOUR: See below

DAMAGE MODIFIER: None

HABITAT: Forests, Hills, Towns, Mountains, Plains, Wilderness

NUMBER ENCOUNTERED: 1-6

TYPE: Humanoid

REACTION: Neutral-Unfriendly

INTELLIGENCE: High

Out there in the dangerous wilds of Titan, the hunter hunts as a professional and the gamekeeper as a warden and protector, but the POACHER hunts for personal need, whether monetary or sheer survival. These ragged individuals exist beyond, in the wild, tracking and hunting valuable creatures for food and profit. As can be imagined, they are a highly diverse bunch of disparate borderland misanthropes with far too little in the way of regular social contact. Roll on all the tables below to determine the provenance of each poacher:

Roll Missile Weapon

1 Long Bow

2 Short Bow

3 Crossbow (Roll for type: 1-2 Regular, 3-4 Hand, 5-6 Repeating)

4 Sling

5 Blowpipe

6 Firepowder weapon (Roll for type: 1 Flintlock Blunderbuss, 2-3 Matchlock Pistol, 4-5 Flintlock Pistol, 6 Matchlock Blunderbuss)

Roll Melee Weapon

1 Club

2-3 Shortsword

4-5 Sword

6 Staff

Roll Armour

1-2 None

3-4 Leather Jack

5-6 Leather Cuirass

Roll Type Effect

1 Human, no effect

2 Man-Orc, +1 SKILL

3 Black Elf, no effect

4 Half-Elf, no effect

5 Half-Goblin, +1 STAMINA

6 Wild Elf, no effect

Poachers operate in any terrain that has enough game to turn a profit. This even includes cities, especially those with lots of poorly defended open ground, such as Khare, cityport of traps. Poachers will have at least 1 point in the following Special Skills: Hunting, Trap Lore, Terrain Lore, and Animal Lore. Such a useful accumulation of experience makes them desirable skirmishers, and those Poachers who wish to leave their poorly-paid existence behind often have no shortage of suitors who require their specific talents, including units of archers or scouts, adventurers, caravan guards and even their old foes hunters and gamekeepers!

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