Wolf's Bane (31 page)

1. Add your
   COMBAT SKILL
   to any extra points given to you by your Grand Master Disciplines.
   
2. Subtract the
   COMBAT SKILL
   of your enemy from this total. This number = Combat Ratio.
   
3. Pick a number from the
   Random Number Table
   .
   
4. Turn to the
   Combat Results Table
   .
   
5. Find your Combat Ratio on the top of the chart and cross-reference to the random number you have picked. (E indicates loss of
   ENDURANCE
   points to Enemy. LW indicates loss of
   ENDURANCE
   points to Lone Wolf.)
   
6. Continue the combat from Stage 3 until one character is dead. This is when
   ENDURANCE
   points of either character falls to 0 or below.
   

1. You may only do this when the text of the adventure offers you the opportunity.
   
2. You undertake one round of combat in the usual way. All points lost by the enemy are ignored; only Lone Wolf loses the
   ENDURANCE
   points.
   
3. If the book offers the chance of taking evasive action in place of combat, it can be taken in the first round of combat or any subsequent round.
   

We have taken our unique opportunity to correct errors and to enforce a standard of English usage. We list our changes here. If you see anything that needs correction, please
contact
the Project Aon Staff.

(
Blurb
) Replaced ‘Wolf's Bane’ with ‘
Wolf's Bane
,’.

(
Dedication
) Replaced ‘Conroy &’ with ‘Conroy, &’.

(
The Story So Far …
) Replaced ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Replaced ‘freestate’ with ‘Freeland’. Replaced ‘Naar — the King of the Darkness — ’ with ‘Naar, the King of the Darkness,’. Replaced ‘monastery of the Kai’ with ‘Monastery of the Kai’. Replaced ‘Kai lord’ with ‘Kai Lord’. Replaced both occurrences of ‘new-found’ with ‘newfound’. Replaced ‘Three years earlier’ with ‘Three years ago’. Replaced ‘body; you’ with ‘body: you’. Replaced ‘Darklands armies’ with ‘Darkland armies’. Replaced ‘years peace’ with ‘years, peace’. Replaced ‘crowd were’ with ‘crowd was’. Replaced ‘Magnamund have’ with ‘Magnamund, have’.

(
The Game Rules
) Deleted ‘that you will find in the front of this book. For ease of use, and for further adventuring, it is recommended that you photocopy these pages.’. Replaced both occurrences of ‘ie’ with ‘i.e.’. Replaced ‘fall to zero’ with ‘fall to zero or below’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘Chart (you’ with ‘Chart. (You’. Replaced ‘Items).’ with ‘Items.)’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘Grand Master series’ with ‘
Lone Wolf Grand Master
series’. Added ‘Dagger of Vashna’ and ‘Helshezag’ to the list of items permitted to be brought over from the
Lone Wolf Kai
and
Lone Wolf Magnakai
books in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
Grand Master Disciplines
) Replaced ‘gods Kai and Ishir’ with ‘Gods Kai and Ishir’. Replaced ‘smell and’ with ‘smell, and’. Replaced ‘footprints & tracks’ with ‘footprints and tracks’. Replaced ‘500 yds’ with ‘500 yards’. Replaced ‘against — hypnosis’ with ‘against hypnosis’. Replaced ‘venoms & toxins’ with ‘venoms, and toxins’. Replaced ‘gases, corrosive’ with ‘gases, and corrosive’. Replaced ‘When you enter combat with one of your Grand Master weapons, you add 5 points to your
COMBAT SKILL
. The rank of Kai Grand Defender, with which you begin the Grand Master series, means you are skilled in
two
of the weapons listed below.’ with ‘When you enter combat with one of your Grand Weaponmastery weapons, you add 5 points to your
COMBAT SKILL
. The rank of Kai Grand Defender, with which you begin the
Lone Wolf Grand Master
series, means you are supremely efficient in the use of two of the weapons listed below. For each book that you complete in the
Lone Wolf Grand Master
series (Books 13–20), you will gain mastery of an additional weapon. For example, if you complete
The Plague Lords of Ruel
and have the Grand Master Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery at the beginning of the next
Lone Wolf Grand Master
book, you may choose an additional Weapon to gain mastery of.’ in harmony with the Collector's Editions. Replaced ‘
COMBAT SKILL
’ with ‘
ENDURANCE
’. Replaced ‘Magi-Magic’ with ‘Magi-magic’. Replaced ‘battle magic’ with ‘battle-magic’. Replaced ‘opposite and overleaf’ with ‘below’. Added the missing illustration to the Weaponmastery subheading. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘fortresses increases’ with ‘fortresses increase’. Replaced ‘body, increases’ with ‘body, increase’. Replaced ‘magi-magic’ with ‘Old Kingdom’. Replaced ‘Old Kingdom spells’ with ‘Old Kingdom Spells’. Added ‘ If you have chosen the Discipline of Grand Huntmastery as one of your skills, you will not need to tick off a Meal when instructed to eat.’ to the section on Grand Huntmastery. Replaced each occurrence of ‘battle wounds’ with ‘battle-wounds’. Added Brian Williams' Grand Master Disciplines illustrations from later books. Replaced ‘will be of use’ with ‘may be of use’. Added ‘If you have the Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery with Bow, you may add 5 to any number that you pick from the
Random Number Table
, when using the Bow.’ from the
Equipment
section. Replaced ‘Grand Master adventure’ with ‘
Lone Wolf Grand Master
adventure’. Replaced ‘darkness, and have’ with ‘darkness and have’. Replaced ‘plants, and have’ with ‘plants and have’. Replaced ‘Duration, and the protection of his inanimate body, increase’ with ‘Duration and the protection of his inanimate body increase’.

(
Equipment
) Replaced ‘Before you set off on your long journey home to Sommerlund you took with you a map of Northern Magnamund’ with ‘You have in your possession a
map of Sommerlund and the Wildlands
’, since the original text was clearly erroneously copied directly from Book 18. Deleted ‘(see the inside front cover of this book)’. Replaced ‘safe-keeping’ with ‘safekeeping’. Replaced ‘BROADSWORD’ with ‘Broadsword’. Replaced ‘BOW’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘QUIVER’ with ‘Quiver’. Replaced ‘ six arrows’ with ‘six Arrows’. Replaced ‘DAGGER’ with ‘Dagger’. Replaced ‘SWORD’ with ‘Sword’. Replaced ‘2 MEALS’ with ‘2 Meals (Meals)’. Replaced ‘ROPE’ with ‘Rope’. Replaced ‘POTION OF LAUMSPUR’ with ‘Potion of Laumspur’. Replaced ‘AXE’ with ‘Axe’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced occurrences of ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘adds 3 points’ with ‘adds 5 points’. Replaced ‘quiver’ with ‘Quiver’. Replaced ‘that may have’ with ‘they may have’. Replaced ‘(eg Gold Dagger’ with ‘(e.g. Gold Dagger’. Added section for How to Use Gold Crowns that reads: ‘These are always carried in the Belt Pouch. It will hold a maximum of fifty crowns.’. Replaced ‘combat, therefore’ with ‘combat; therefore’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘Grand Weaponmastery with a Bow’ with ‘Grand Weaponmastery with Bow’. Replaced the illustration of the Short Sword with that of a Sword. Replaced ‘a sword or an axe’ with ‘a Sword or an Axe’. Replaced ‘weapons’ with ‘Weapons’. Replaced ‘weapon’ with ‘Weapon’. Deleted ‘If you have the Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery with Bow, you may add 3 to any number that you pick from the
Random Number Table
, when using the Bow.’. Replaced ‘record these on your
Weapons List
’ with ‘record these on your
Action Chart
’ for clarity. Added ‘You may only use one Weapon at a time in combat.’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
Rules for Combat
) Deleted ‘on the inside back cover of this book’. Replaced ‘combat.)’ with ‘combat).’. Replaced ‘until
ENDURANCE
points’ with ‘until the
ENDURANCE
points’. Replaced ‘reduced to zero’ with ‘reduced to zero or below’. Replaced ‘the one with the zero score’ with ‘that combatant’. Replaced ‘points reduced’ with ‘ points possibly reduced’. Replaced ‘on the page after the Random Number Table’ with ‘in the back of this book’.

(
Levels of Grand Mastership
) Replaced ‘rank and titles’ with ‘ranks and titles’.

(
Improved Grand Master Disciplines
) Replaced ‘levels of Kai Grand Mastery you will’ with ‘levels of Kai Grand Mastery, you will’. Replaced ‘bare-handed ie,’ with ‘bare-handed, i.e.’. Replaced ‘most-feared’ with ‘most feared’. Replaced ‘equipment and clothing,’ with ‘equipment, and clothing’. Replaced ‘‘Improved Grand Master Disciplines’’ with ‘Improved Grand Master Disciplines’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘skill increases’ with ‘skill increase’. Replaced ‘Brotherhood spells’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’. Replaced ‘creatures who are ’ with ‘creatures that are’. Replaced ‘this discipline’ with ‘this Discipline’. Replaced ‘caused, and the resultant drain upon a Grand Crown's reserves of
ENDURANCE
, are’ with ‘caused and the resultant drain upon a Grand Crown's reserves of
ENDURANCE
are’.

(
Grand Master's Wisdom
) Replaced ‘Pick your four Grand’ with ‘Pick your Grand’.

(
1
) Replaced ‘drawbolt’ with ‘bolt’. Replaced ‘Calder’ with ‘Caldar’. Replaced ‘force-field’ with ‘force field’.

(
3
) Replaced ‘Crypt Spawn hordes’ with ‘Crypt Spawn Horde’.

(
6
) Replaced ‘Bow, and the Discipline of Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Bow and the Discipline of Magi-magic and’.

(
8
) Replaced ‘enemy — Wolf's Bane — ’ with ‘enemy, Wolf's Bane,’.

(
9
) Replaced ‘imbedded’ with ‘embedded’. Replaced ‘Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Magi-magic and’. Replaced ‘Bow, and’ with ‘Bow and’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘skills, or have’ with ‘skills, have’.

(
13
) Replaced ‘curing’ with ‘Curing’. Replaced ‘cry, ‘the’ with ‘cry. ‘The’.

(
14
) Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’.

(
15
) Replaced ‘enemy — Wolf's Bane — ’ with ‘enemy, Wolf's Bane,’.

(
17
) Replaced ‘imbedded’ with ‘embedded’. Replaced ‘Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Magi-magic and’. Replaced ‘Bow, and’ with ‘Bow and’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘skills, or have’ with ‘skills, have’.

(
18
) Deleted ‘ at the front of this book’.

(
19
) Replaced ‘Monastery’ with ‘monastery’.

(
21
) Replaced ‘emaciated Drakkarim’ with ‘emaciated Drakkar’.

(
23
) Replaced ‘side, then’ with ‘side, and then’.

(
26
) Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’.

(
27
) Replaced ‘aura of evil’ with ‘aura of Evil’.

(
28
) Replaced ‘1–3’ with ‘0–3’.

(
29
) Replaced ‘rainswept’ with ‘rain-swept’. Replaced ‘diffuse’ with ‘defuse’. Replaced ‘for sight of’ with ‘for a sight of’.

(
30
) Replaced ‘no matter what the dangers you may have yet to face’ with ‘no matter what dangers you may yet face’.

(
31
) Replaced ‘one set belong’ with ‘one set belongs’.

(
34
) Replaced ‘battle armour’ with ‘battle-armour’.

(
36
) Replaced ‘cavemouth’ with ‘cave mouth’. Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘power word’ with ‘power-word’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’.

(
37
) Replaced ‘(ie sword, axe, or dagger etc)’ with ‘(i.e. Sword, Short Sword, Broadsword, Axe, or Dagger)’. Replaced ‘or Special’ with ‘or this Special’. Replaced ‘walls and’ with ‘walls, and’. Replaced ‘weapons or’ with ‘Weapons, or’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘bladed weapon’ with ‘bladed Weapon’.

(
38
) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.

(
39
) Replaced ‘warriors, then’ with ‘warriors; then’.

(
40
) Replaced ‘impatiently, ‘Naar’ with ‘impatiently. ‘Naar’. Replaced ‘reply, ‘but’ with ‘reply. ‘But’. Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘Kai-screen, and’ with ‘Kai-screen and’.

(
42
) Replaced ‘silver and’ with ‘silver, and’.

(
43
) Replaced ‘power word’ with ‘power-word’.

(
44
) Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’.

(
46
) Replaced ‘co-operate’ with ‘cooperate’. Replaced ‘door, and’ with ‘door and’.

(
47
) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’.

(
49
) Replaced ‘concentrations of evil’ with ‘concentrations of Evil’.

(
51
) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘Grand Nexus, and’ with ‘Grand Nexus and’. Replaced ‘Bow, the’ with ‘Bow or the’.

(
52
) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘Pathsmanship, and’ with ‘Pathsmanship and’.

(
53
) Replaced ‘entrance, ‘Follow’ with ‘entrance. ‘Follow’. Replaced ‘noise and light abates’ with ‘noise and light abate’.

(
55
) Replaced ‘If you possess Magi-magic,’ with ‘If you possess Magi-magic and have attained the rank of Grand Thane or higher,’. Replaced ‘If you do not possess this Grand Master Discipline,’ with ‘If you do not possess this Grand Master Discipline or have yet to attain this level of Kai Mastery,’.

(
57
) Replaced ‘power word’ with ‘power-word’.

(
58
) Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’. Replaced ‘the fire-bolt splutters’ with ‘the fire-bolt sputters’.

(
61
) Replaced ‘most-feared’ with ‘most feared’. Replaced ‘Kai alchemy’ with ‘Kai-alchemy’.

(
62
) Replaced ‘semi-circular’ with ‘semicircular’. Replaced ‘Magi-Magic’ with ‘Magi-magic’. Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Replaced ‘spell of levitation’ with ‘
Levitation
spell’. Replaced ‘Bow, and the Discipline of Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Bow and the Discipline of Magi-magic and’. Replaced ‘skills, or’ with ‘skills or’.

(
67
) Replaced ‘tables and’ with ‘tables, and’.

(
68
) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery, or if you do not wish to use any of them’. Replaced ‘Nexus, and’ with ‘Nexus and’. Replaced ‘Bow, the’ with ‘Bow or the’.

(
69
) Replaced ‘sticky and’ with ‘sticky, and’.

(
70
) Replaced ‘Disciplines, or’ with ‘Disciplines, nor’. Replaced ‘Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Magi-magic and’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’.

(
71
) Replaced ‘doubled-back’ with ‘doubled back’. Replaced ‘clang’ with ‘
clang
’.

(
72
) Replaced ‘follow, then’ with ‘follow, and then’.

(
73
) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.

(
75
) Replaced ‘past, therefore’ with ‘past; therefore’.

(
77
) Replaced ‘fast flowing’ with ‘fast-flowing’.

(
78
) Replaced ‘aura of evil’ with ‘aura of Evil’.