Had an awesome TRoS session today.

I got to play TRoS for the first time today as one of my group mates took over being Seneschal for the day. It was a long session that climaxed with my companion and I leading 200 newly freed slaves into a pitched battle to clear a tribe of Gols from the mountain valley where they were going to claim as their new home.

I had the distinction of earning both the luckiest and unluckiest rolls of the session. The Gols were lead by a captain and I decided to try and take him out as quickly as possible. Mounted on horseback, lance in hand I charged him. With my conscience SA (my motivation for helping the slaves) firing I had 17 dice total during that charge, I managed to get 5 successes only after burning my two luck points! It barely scratched the bastard!

I charged again after recovering and this time he cut my horse out from under me. I was thrown and would have been doomed if my companion hadn't arrived just in time to ram a half sworded greatsword into his back...it didn't kill him but it dropped him CP enough so that I was able to get a single massive shot with my own sword. Again I was rolling 17 dice (CP is 13, 2 for aggressive stance, 2 from the SA). I hit him for 25 damage...that's right 25: Str 7+2 (sword) +3 (half sword) + 13 successes. That more than made up for my rather lame charge earlier.

I learned the hard way that I would have actually done better using my sword than I did with the lance. I have a higher CP by 3, and my Str is only 1 lower than the courser I was riding....oh well, I'll remeber than next time. Or maybe I'll get a bigger horse since I'm now in the market for one...

The other character in my party did really well. He had 3 SAs firing the whole battle for 6 or so extra dice total. Between us we killed a few dozen Gols, tag teamed a Gol captain, freed 200 slaves and earned the loyalty of an entire region (who lived in constant terror of the Gols our troops eradicated).

All in all it was a great session and was our first chance to really get our SAs firing so we saw TRoS as it was meant to be for the first time.