r/BlackoathRPG

Hello everyone. I am playing the Embalmer's Lodge domain through the Quickstart rules. I found it a little unclear how the combat works. I understood that the attack is an opposed check. So I get my attack stat, modify it reducing the enemy's relevant skill (combat skill usually), add 50 and then see if I roll less. If I do it, the attack succeeds. Right? But in the rules it says that the target can spend a Reaction to try to defend. So it means that I roll for the enemy (a monster, say) too?

And the other way around, when it is an enemy action, I roll on his action list (no roll for his attack) and only do a defensive roll for my character to try to defend it?

I am just trying to understand if I am not rolling more than I should. Thanks!

Hey Alex! Big fan of Ker Nethalas (my first solo RPG book) and now I need to own Across a Thousand Dead Worlds. After reading some comments, I want the top quality hardcover with tokens and maps which sounds like the offset run directly from Blackoath.

Do you have any idea when the next offset run will happen? Or, anyway you have a copy stashed away for a big fan 😉?

Hey all! Excited to try the game. Question: is there a way to play by using inches and gridless battlemats? Is that something explained in the rules or is it a homebrew kind of thing?