Forest Chase Scene

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Varyon

Simply apply it to the full lighting penalties. So if you're at -4 lighting, someone with Night Vision 2 is only at -2, which gets halved to -1 if they're the ones hiding.

Yup. Night Vision is really helpful in any night action before NVGs are in use.

Originally Posted by Varyon

I could maybe see a penalized Hiking roll standing in for Survival (Forest) in this regard, but that seems like it's stretching things.

I'd ask for a Hiking roll (with the Fit bonus if available) if the chase covers a lot of distance on foot, simply to avoid getting tired and slowing down. If one side slows down and the other doesn't, that could well decide the chase.

Originally Posted by ericthered

Before the forest they crossed a wheat field, and there +2 for double the speed of the quarry felt wrong. Any suggestions? is there a on the ground explanation? should I give the chasers a bonus for favorable terrain?

How tall is the wheat? Remember that most modern wheat you see has been bred to have short stalks.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

Riding a horse at all at night is a recipe for a broken horse - they can't see much better than you can and are liable to mis-step and break ankles and legs (which, come to think of it, is not unknown for humans running in the dark). Riding one into a forest is also a bad idea - combining the two is likely to end up with rider, horse or both injured in short order.
Either get off and lead the horse or, as stated, send them off on their own in hopes they'll lay a false trail.

I think we're handing waving it cinematically....

Originally Posted by johndallman

How tall is the wheat? Remember that most modern wheat you see has been bred to have short stalks.

I think its about July, maybe early august? How tall is the wheat then? Its in southern Cardiel if that matters or helps.

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by ericthered

I think its about July, maybe early august? How tall is the wheat then? Its in southern Cardiel if that matters or helps.

I believe that's typically around harvest time, so they should be at least close to full-size. The question is what full-size means. These days, I think wheat typically hovers around a meter tall, but it wasn't that long ago (apparently the shorter plants with higher yields started being aggressively selected for sometime in the 1800's) that it tended to get nearly as tall as a man (or at least as a man of that time period; average heights have increased since then).