Lone Wolf: Skill Up!

It is time to build the character. To build the Lone Wolf, as it were. There's a little bit of back story that basically says that the bad guys came and burned down the monastery while you were out gathering firewood and picking tomatoes. Now we're pissed for vengeance and ready to retroactively decide how strong we are and what we learned at the monastery before heading out into the great beyond.

I rolled a d10 for my combat and endurance totals (screw the random number table.)
Combat is 10 + d10. We have a wussy 13 for combat skill. Combat is figured by subtracting your opponent's combat skill from your own, then using a chart to see how much damage you deal to each other in each round. The larger the discrepancy, the more skewed the damage is.

Endurance is 20 + d10. I rolled a 9 for a bitchin' 29 endurance. Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger.

Here's where I need you guys. We need to choose skills. Pretending for a moment that you have no prior experience in the Lone Wolf universe, we need to come up with a consensus decision of 5 skills. LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.

Camouflage

This Discipline enables a Kai Lord to blend in with his surroundings. In the countryside, he can hide undetected among trees and rocks and pass close to an enemy without being seen. In a town or city, it enables him to look and sound like a native of that area, and can help him to find shelter or a safe hiding place. - There is value in not being seen.

Hunting

This skill ensures that a Kai Lord will never starve in the wild. He will always be able to hunt for food for himself except in areas of wasteland and desert. The skill also enables a Kai Lord to be able to move stealthily when stalking his prey. - Useful for locating food when you run out of Hot Pockets.

Sixth Sense

This skill may warn a Kai Lord of imminent danger. It may also reveal the true purpose of a stranger or strange object encountered in your adventure. - Nice and vague. Still, Jedi Sense sounds nice.

Tracking

This skill enables a Kai Lord to make the correct choice of a path in the wild, to discover the location of a person or object in a town or city and to read the secrets of footprints or tracks. - BC is endowed with this skill in the real world. I, however, am not.

Healing

This Discipline can be used to restore ENDURANCE points lost in combat. If you possess this skill you may restore 1 ENDURANCE point to your total for every numbered section of the book you pass through in which you are not involved in combat. (This is only to be used after your ENDURANCE has fallen below its original level.) Remember that your ENDURANCE cannot rise above its original level. - Regain endurace at a rate of 1 point per entry that doesn't have combat. Pretty useful.

Weaponskill

Upon entering the Kai monastery, each initiate is taught to master one type of weapon. If Weaponskill is to be one of your Kai Disciplines, pick a number in the usual way from the random number table and then find the corresponding weapon from the list below. This is the weapon in which you have skill. When you enter combat carrying this weapon, you add 2 points to your COMBAT SKILL. - + 2 combat skill with the selected weapon. Pretty straight-forward.

Mindshield

The Darklords and many of the evil creatures in their command have the ability to attack you using their Mindforce. The Kai Discipline of Mindshield prevents you from losing any ENDURANCE points when subjected to this form of attack. - Some people call this Occlumency.

Mindblast

This enables a Kai Lord to attack an enemy using the force of his mind. It can be used at the same time as normal combat weapons and adds two extra points to your COMBAT SKILL. Not all the creatures encountered on this adventure will be harmed by Mindblast. You will be told if a creature is immune. - Blowing people up with our minds? Fuck yes.

Animal Kinship

This skill enables a Kai Lord to communicate with some animals and to be able to guess the intentions of others. - Tree-hugging hippy crap.

Mind Over Matter

Mastery of this Discipline enables a Kai Lord to move small objects with his powers of concentration. - The ability to bend spoons with a single thought.

So which 5 skills should we take? And what should our name be? These are burning questions that burn with the need to be answered. The Kai Monastery Lord Guys must be avenged!

One last thing that needs saying: These books were written by Joe Dever and illustrated by Gary Chalk. Only the snarky comments are mine.