Cutlass play example - Combat - player choses Brash Actions . Knight Brash: make three quick blows, all to your victim's left side. Success and dispatch one opponent. Difficulty: 7 Advantage: Heroic Swordplay* Example Two - Player choses Calculated and gets card 10 of Coins - Ten Calculated: lock swords with your victim and thrust with a dagger in your other hand. Success and dispatch one opponent. Regardless of result, enemy NPCs lose their defensive modifiers for the remainder of this round’s actions. Difficulty: 6 Advantage: Uncontested Dagger Thrust* Example 3 - Major Tarot During Ship Barrage - Hermit: a secondary event happens that changes the player character(s) or the battle situation. Possibly more opponents arrive, player discovers a weakness in his ship or opponent's, clue to mission, patrol comes to rescue, ships enter shallows (galleons run aground), storm rises ending combat, etc. Ref decides specifics.
