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=== Revolutionaries ===
 
=== Revolutionaries ===
 
Revolutionaries take the cause to the streets and oppose
 
Revolutionaries take the cause to the streets and oppose
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the government with physical power.
 
Variously called rebels and revolutionaries in the Player's Guide.
 
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patrol the streets of Kintargo and are
 
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ready to step in to aid citizens who need help, but also
 
ready to step in to aid citizens who need help, but also
serve to distract Thrune.
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serve to distract Thrune.  
They can rescue publicly held prisoners held in public cages or pillories, but not from excruciations.
 
  
 
'''Infiltrators
 
'''Infiltrators
 
are a highly trained group of
 
are a highly trained group of
 
freedom fighters capable of attempting daring rescues of
 
freedom fighters capable of attempting daring rescues of
imprisoned characters and do sabotage in secure areas.
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imprisoned characters.
  
 
'''Guerrillas
 
'''Guerrillas

Revision as of 21:13, 30 August 2020

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Heroic Action Role-Play

A game based on Paizo's Hell's Rebels Adventure Path played using Action rules.

Rebel Influence Table

Rebel Organization
Organization
Rating
Advisors Outlaws Rebels Traders
Skills Charm
Impress
Know
Impress
Maneuver
Recon
Dodge
Melee
Shoot
Charm
Create
Ride
Attributes Mind Reflexes Body Move
Lunette 14
Iris 14
Saga 14
Tya 14
Team Leaders Rexus Ventecora
Vendalfek
Korva Fushi
Ryk
Forvian Crow
Larisha Longroad
Morgar Manthai
Clenchjaw
Zea

Rebel Organization Table

Rebel Organization
Organization
Rating
Advisors Outlaws Rebels Traders Personnel Teams
11 Street Performers Sneaks Freedom Fighters Peddlers 4 1
12 Street Performers Sneaks Freedom Fighters Peddlers 6 1
13 Street Performers Sneaks Freedom Fighters Peddlers 10 2
14 Street Performers Sneaks Freedom Fighters Peddlers 16 2
15 Street Performers Sneaks Freedom Fighters Peddlers 25 3
16 Rumormongers Thieves Infiltrators Black Marketers 40 3/1
17 Rumormongers Thieves Infiltrators Black Marketers 60 4/1
18 Rumormongers Thieves Infiltrators Black Marketers 100 5/1
19 Rumormongers Thieves Infiltrators Black Marketers 160 5/2
20 Rumormongers Thieves Infiltrators Black Marketers 250 5/3
21 Agitators Spies Guerillas Spellcasters 400 5/3/1
22 Agitators Spies Guerillas Spellcasters 600 5/4/1
23 Agitators Spies Guerillas Spellcasters 1,000 5/5/1
24 Agitators Spies Guerillas Spellcasters 1,600 5/5/2
25 Agitators Spies Guerillas Spellcasters 2,500 5/5/3
26 Cognoscenti Saboteurs Army Merchants 4,000 5/5/3/1
27 Cognoscenti Saboteurs Army Merchants 6,000 5/5/4/1
28 Cognoscenti Saboteurs Army Merchants 10,000 5/5/5/1
29 Cognoscenti Saboteurs Army Merchants 16,000 5/5/5/2
30 Cognoscenti Saboteurs Army Merchants 25,000 5/5/5/3

Organization

Instead of using the rebellion rules in the Player's Guide we will be using Action's Organization Rules. The rebellion itself will be regarded as four different organizations.

Advisors

Advisors control the flow of information and help shape the public persona of the Silver Ravens.

Street Performers can spread the word of the Silver Ravens through art while keeping an ear to the ground for rumors.

Rumormongers are skilled street performers who can not only gather information, but can spread lies and confusing rumors to throw the government off the Silver Ravens’ tracks.

Agitators are highly advanced rumormongers capable of influencing the very nature of Kintargo’s society with their whispers and scuttlebutt.

Cognoscenti are members of secret societies and have numerous ties to the aristocracy; their words can influence events across Kintargo and even abroad. Cognoscenti include experts in a wide range of diverse fields; they can be consulted for advice or information of all sorts, even far outside the country.

Outlaws

Outlaws use what would normally be considered criminal activity to support the Silver Ravens.

Sneaks can steal normal equipment and set up safe houses and caches throughout the city except not in dangerous sites.

Thieves are more accomplished sneaks, and are capable of providing a safe place for other rebels to hide out or stealing intermediate loot in risky locations.

Spies include informants inside the enemy's ranks. They can orchestrate covert actions against House Thrune, and are capable of stealing major caches and providing safe houses even in risky locations.

Saboteurs are specialists in the arena of undermining oppressive governments. They can sabotage important installations, score major heists, and can try to subvert enemy personnel.

Revolutionaries

Revolutionaries take the cause to the streets and oppose the government with physical power. Variously called rebels and revolutionaries in the Player's Guide.

Freedom Fighters patrol the streets of Kintargo and are ready to step in to aid citizens who need help, but also serve to distract Thrune.

Infiltrators are a highly trained group of freedom fighters capable of attempting daring rescues of imprisoned characters.

Guerrillas can occupy areas of the city, maintain law and order, and fight to defend the area. Guerrillas can disappear after an operation and vanish from the field to reappear later.

Army includes formal ranks and branches, infantry, cavalry, and logistics. An army can fight field battles and perform sieges. An army is too large to go underground in a city, but can hide in the country.

Traders

Traders focus on manipulating Kintargo’s markets and making money for the Silver Ravens.

Peddlers include artisans, laborers, street vendors, and trade in otherwise legal goods and services to supply the rebels.

Black Marketers maintain contacts with illegal sources and operate in the city’s shadows, giving access to contraband and simple magic items.

Spellcasters include clerics, wizards, and other magic-using characters. Spellcasters fight in all types of teams, this denotes teams of organized ritual casters. They mainly help with communication, crafting, divination, and healing.

Merchants can trade in bulk and arrange for special orders from sources worldwide.

Team Actions

Area limitation by rank Depending on the rank of a team, it can operate in different districts of the city.

  1. Old Kintargo , Redroof.
  2. Jarvis, Yolubilis Harbor
  3. Temple Hill, Villegre,
  4. Castle, Greens.

Team Actions

  1. Acquire Equipment (Sneaks, Peddlers): Acquire gear appropriate to the rank of the team. This mainly applies to gear needed by teams rather than that of the PCs themselves, but the GM can require it for exceptional or magical items. Traders get gear in larger amounts than outlaws.
  2. Ambush (Freedom Fighters): An ambush on some aspect of Kintago's government. A successful ambush disrupts government activities, which can prevent many city events and government activities in that region. Attempting an ambush increases notoriety by 2d6.
  3. Covert Action (Spies): By taking this action, spies can work with any other team to hide any evidence that the rebellion was involved in an operation. Any Notoriety gained from this action is automatically reduced to the minimum amount possible - a notoriety gain of 1 is reduced to zero.
  4. Disinformation (Rumormongers, Spies, Spellcasters): Reduce Notoriety by 1.
  5. Divination (Spellcasters): The team uses divination to find information about a person, place, or topic. This mainly reveals supernatural secrets and activities.
  6. Earn Gold (Thieves, Peddlers): Increase the Silver Ravens’ treasury. This is good for a +2 bonus on a single team check or Advancement Check this week.
  7. Gather Information (Street performers, Spies, Peddlers): The team has gathered information for you. This can either be a randomly determined rumor (your GM has tables of rumors that change with each adventure) or a specific piece of local information that you could learn by gather information
  8. Guarantee Event (Agitators): You can guarantee an event occurs during the Event phase. If you perform this action, the GM rolls twice and takes the lower roll as the actual result for the event.
  9. Incursion (Guerillas): Invade and contest a city section for the week. This allows other rebel teams to act in that section of the city regardless of rank. Attempting an incursion increases notoriety by 4d6.
  10. Knowledge Check (Cognoscenti): The team attempts to provide an answer to any question you could normally answer with a successful Knowledge check..
  11. Lie Low (Any team): If you successfully lie low, you "waste" your action and can potentially reduce your Notoriety score by one.
  12. Manipulate Events (Cognoscenti): When you manipulate events, you automatically guarantee that a specific event occurs during the following Event phase. This event is never a surprise and any action taken against it has a +2 bonus.
  13. Occupation (Army): Occupying an entire section of city. This is a surprise attack, but starts a civil was, effectively ending the underground phase of the resistance.
  14. Recruit Supporters (Any Team): This is good for a +2 bonus on a single Advancement Check but increases Notoriety by 1.
  15. Rescue (Freedom Fighters): The team breaks into a prison or other secure site to rescue a captured character (either a PC or an NPC). An attempted rescue increases your Notoriety score by the tier of the team doing the rescue.
  16. Restore Character (Cognoscenti, Spellcasters): Heal damage or remove debilitating conditions from a character.
  17. Sabotage (Saboteurs): Your saboteurs attempt to damage a structure or meddle with political machinations. With a successful check, Thrune and church agents are distracted for the following week, and all Organization checks you make during that week gain a +2 bonus. Alternatively, the Sabotage action can be used to attempt specific deeds that will affect adventuring that takes place in those locations. On a success Notoriety increases by 4d6, but even a failed sabotage increases Notoriety by 2d6.
  18. Safe House (Sneaks): Your outlaw team secures a small building somewhere in Kintargo and sets it up as a safe house. You can select any building for this role. The building itself might be abandoned, or it might be a home or humble business run by a rebellion supporter. Alternative, it is a forgotten attic or side-room in a large building. Any characters recovered via the Rescue Character action can be brought to the site without fear. The building also presents a safe place to get food, recover, and rest without worrying about wandering monsters or other interruptions.
  19. Secure Cache (Sneaks, Infiltrators): Used to place a contact or stash of gear in a specific adventure site, allowing replenishing of resources mid-mission. A stash in a mission site only remains for 1 week. Sneaks can secure minor caches that allows replenishing of session-limited schticks. Thieves can secure intermediate caches that allow each character to recover one Fortune point. Spies can secure major caches that allow one character to recover all Fortune points. All caches also allows the benefit of lower-ranked caches. You can have the team secure an outdoor cache in any location in Kintargo (such caches are typically hidden in alleys or parks or other relatively out-of-the-way areas) or inside a specific structure. When placed in a specific structure, the cache is typically hidden near the entrance, but additional locations are available in certain buildings.
  20. Special (As Required): Sometimes an officer must take a Special action to deal with the results of a previous week’s event or a development in the course of an adventure. The results of special actions must be negotiated with the GM.
  21. Spread Disinformation (Rumormongers): The team spreads false information about the rebellion throughout Kintargo. Reduce your current Notoriety score by 1d6.
  22. Street Fighting (Freedom Fighters): Fighting for the cause, including spreading tags and trying to hold turf. This is good for a +2 bonus on all organization checks in one region of the city and on all Advancement Check for revolutionaries, but increases Notoriety by 1d6.

Notoriety

Notoriety is a measure of how well known the rebellion is and how alert the authorities are to the rebellion. Notoriety is gained for fighting the law, doing ostentatious deeds, and openly inciting the public. Notoriety can be lost for lying low or by spreading misleading rumors.

Notoriety affects the difficulty of rebel organization actions. Increasing persecution that comes along with notoriety makes it harder to succeeds, but the increased fame makes it easier to score a setback result.

  • The difficulty of most rebel activities are 12 + 1/10 of the notoriety score.
  • The roll required for a Setback 20 + 1/20 of the notoriety score.

Notoriety events The following events have so far modified notoriety.

  • Salt Works Raid +3
  • Doghousing rescue +4
  • Graffiti campaign +3

See Also