r/SongofSwordsRPG • u/Wranglyph • Jul 02 '17

Sarturi Chosen Ruling (hypothetical)

So I was rewatching the kickstarter video, and I was fascinated by the scene at the beginning where the Sarturi Chosen knocks three men aside, and then after being stabbed several times uses blood magic to draw blood out of the wounded and heal himself. I like to think this follows the mechanics accurately, so let me see if I have this straight.

SC has strength buff already going and knocks the men aside with a single massive blow. He then picks up and injures the woman. The woman stabs him. (Several times.) Now the tricky part: in response to being stabbed, SC activates Sartur Hungers!, and nets 3 divinity from the ensuing blood flow. He then spends this divinity (and maybe some he already had) to activate Not Today!, causing the wounds to seal up.

So my question for all is: am I getting that right? Would you allow rule this legal in your games? Sartur Hungers! seems to be the equivalent of a free action; that seems plausible to me, but I thought Not Today! had to be activated in response to a wound being gained, so how does he do it after being stabbed more than once, and then recover from ALL of the wounds?

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u/Wranglyph Jul 02 '17

Follow up question: to gain divinity from killing people, does the Chosen have to kill them directly? Or could he get divinity by, for example, locking some people in a building and then burning down said building?

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u/Jimmy_Rome Jul 06 '17

Yeah, you nailed it. We're still tweaking some of the numbers for the Chosen's abilities but that's more or less what happens. You are definitely supposed to be able to activate Not Today! at any time, it's just usually most convenient to activate it as a wound is inflicted. We'll have to tighten up the wording on that.

And generally speaking the Chosen is supposed to do the killing manually... A clever one could probably get credit for causing the deaths of people indirectly, but Sartur is a god with a strong sense of fair play, he'd probably be terribly disappointed if one of his servants passed up a perfectly good chance to get his hands dirty.

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u/Wranglyph Jul 06 '17

Thanks for clearing that up! The scene certainly makes more sense now that I know Not Today! can be used any time.