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  Gazad Helkona & Surrounding Territories

  Action Chart

  Combat Rules Summary

  Add your COMBAT SKILL to any bonus points given to you by your Kai Weapon, Special Items, or Grand Master Disciplines.

  Subtract the COMBAT SKILL of your enemy from this total. This number = Combat Ratio.

  Pick a number from the Random Number Table.

  Turn to the Combat Results Table.

  Find your Combat Ratio along the top of the chart and cross-reference to the random number you have picked. (E indicates loss of ENDURANCE points to Enemy. GM indicates loss of ENDURANCE points to yourself.)

  Continue the combat from Stage 3 until one character is dead. This is when the ENDURANCE points of either character falls to 0 or below.

  To Evade Combat

  You may only do this when the text of the adventure offers you the opportunity.

  You undertake one round of combat in the usual way. All points lost by the enemy are ignored; only you lose the ENDURANCE points.

  If the book offers the chance of taking evasive action in place of combat, it can be taken in the first or any subsequent round (unless specifically stated otherwise).

  Combat Results Table

  Random Number Table

  Errata

  Introduction

  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.

  Errata

  (Title) Replaced ‘TRAIL OF THE WOLF’ with ‘Trail of the Wolf’.

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

  (The Story so Far … ) Replaced ‘MS 5075’ with ‘MS 5070’. Replaced ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Replaced ‘monastery of the Kai’ with ‘Monastery of the Kai’. Replaced ‘world of Sommerlund’ with ‘world of Magnamund’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Plain of Darkness’ with ‘Plane of Darkness’. Added a paragraph break for a new speaker between ‘anxiously.’ and ‘ ‘He’. Replaced ‘Supreme Disciplines’ with ‘Supreme Master Disciplines’. Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’. Replaced ‘Darklord armies’ with ‘Darkland armies’. Replaced ‘King's army’ with ‘King's Army’. Replaced ‘which comprise of’ with ‘which comprise’. Replaced ‘the First Order of the Kai were nearly’ with ‘the First Order of the Kai was nearly’. Replaced ‘from its lair’ with ‘from his lair’. Replaced ‘it had perished’ with ‘he had perished’. Replaced ‘its movements’ with ‘his movements’. Replaced ‘its freedom’ with ‘his freedom’. Replaced ‘agreed a plan’ with ‘agreed upon a plan’.

  (The Game Rules) Removed ‘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’. Removed ‘on the last page of this book’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘ie’ with ‘i.e.’. Replaced ‘fall to zero’ with ‘fall to zero or below’. Replaced ‘fall to zero’ with ‘fall to zero or below’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘weapons and’ with ‘weapons, and’. Replaced ‘normal weapons’ with ‘normal Weapons’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf New Order series’ with ‘Lone Wolf New Order series’. Replaced ‘New Order adventure’ with ‘New Order adventure’.

  (Your Kai Name) Replaced ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Deleted ‘You can record your personal Kai name on the book plate which appears on the inside front cover of this book.’.

  (New Order Disciplines) Replaced ‘venoms and’ with ‘venoms, and’. Replaced ‘symbols and’ with ‘symbols, and’. Replaced ‘gases and’ with ‘gases, and’. Replaced ‘honour and’ with ‘honour, and’. Replaced ‘Four Disciplines’ with ‘four Disciplines’. Replaced ‘COMBAT SKILL is reduced’ with ‘ENDURANCE is reduced’. Replaced ‘Grand masters’ with ‘Grand Masters’. Replaced ‘Old Kingdom battle magic’ with ‘Old Kingdom battle-magic’. Replaced ‘magi-magic spells’ with ‘Old Kingdom Spells’. Replaced ‘Moon and’ with ‘Moon, and’. Replaced ‘individual (or combinations of) elements that are available,’ with ‘individual elements that are available, or combinations thereof,’. Replaced ‘remove or’ with ‘remove, or’. Replaced ‘eg’ with ‘e.g.’. Replaced ‘multitalented’ with ‘multi-talented’. Replaced ‘dialect and’ with ‘dialect, and’. Replaced ‘Weapon and’ with ‘Weapon, and’. Replaced ‘1 to 3’ with ‘one to three’. Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’. Replaced ‘Magi-Magic’ with ‘Magi-magic’. Replaced ‘guild of magicians’ with ‘Guild of Magicians’. Replaced ‘For every adventure that you complete successfully in the New Order series, you will gain proficiency with one additional weapon.’ with ‘For every adventure that you complete successfully in the New Order series while possessing the Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery, you will gain proficiency with one additional weapon.’. Replaced ‘battle wounds’ with ‘battle-wounds’. 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 ‘fortresses increases’ with ‘fortresses increase’. Replaced ‘Duration of the spirit-walk, and the protection afforded to his inanimate body, increases’ with ‘Duration of the spirit-walk and the protection afforded to his in animate body increase’. Replaced ‘predictions increases’ with ‘predictions increase’. 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 points to any number you pick from the Random Number Table, when using the Bow.’ from the Equipment section. Replaced ‘EQUIPMENT’ with ‘Equipment’. Replaced ‘undertaken then’ with ‘undertaken, then’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf (New Order) series’ with ‘Lone Wolf New Order series’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘New Order series’ with ‘New Order series’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘New Order adventure’ with ‘New Order adventure’. Replaced ‘any other Special Items that’ with ‘any other Special Items and Backpack Items that’.

  (Equipment) Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘Lone Wolf’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘eg,’ with ‘e.g.’. Replaced ‘combat, therefore’ with ‘combat; therefore’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘quiver’ with ‘Quiver’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘arrows’ with ‘Arrows’. Deleted ‘(see the inside front cover of this book)’. Added a paragraph about Gold Crowns to the section ‘Equipment — How to use it’. Replaced ‘have to your’ with ‘have on your’. Replaced ‘Grand Weaponmastery with a Bow’ with ‘Grand Weaponmastery with Bow’. 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 points to any number 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. Replaced ‘the total sum of’ with ‘the number of’. Replaced ‘Disciplines then’ with ‘Disciplines, then’. Replaced ‘normal weapons’ with ‘normal Weapons’. Replaced ‘New Order adventures’ with ‘New Order adventures’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘weapon’ with ‘Weapon’ in the ‘Equipment — How to Use It’ section. Added ‘You may only use one Weapon at a time in combat.’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (Kai Weapons) Replaced ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Replaced ‘new-found’ with ‘newfound’. Deleted ‘at the front of the book’. Replaced ‘magical Axe, Sword o
r Broadsword’ with ‘magical Axe, Sword, or Broadsword’. Replaced ‘axe “Alema”’ with ‘Axe “Alema”’.

  (Rules for Combat) Removed ‘on the inside back cover of this book’. Replaced ‘on the page after the Random Number Table’ with ‘in the back of this book’. Replaced ‘points reduced’ with ‘points possibly reduced’. Replaced ‘to zero’ with ‘to zero or below’. Replaced ‘at which point the one with the zero score is declared dead’ with ‘at which point that combatant is declared dead’. Replaced ‘sumary’ with ‘summary’. Altered all italicised, emboldened, and underlined text to standard type.

  (Levels of New Order Grand Mastership) Removed parentheses from around ‘You begin the New Order adventures at this level of Kai Grand Mastery’. Added a dash before ‘You’. Replaced ‘rank and titles’ with ‘ranks and titles’. Replaced ‘New Order series’ with ‘New Order series’. Replaced ‘New Order adventures’ with ‘New Order adventures’.

  (Improved Grand Master Disciplines) Replaced ‘ ‘Improved Grand Master Disciplines’ ’ with ‘Improved Grand Master Disciplines’. Replaced ‘normal and infra-vision’ with ‘normal vision and infravision’. Replaced ‘out-distance’ with ‘outdistance’. Replaced ‘herbmastery’ with ‘Herbmastery’. Replaced ‘Mindblend’ with ‘Mindblend’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘a Grand Guardian’ with ‘a Kai Grand Guardian’. Replaced ‘etc,’ with ‘etc.,’. Replaced ‘arrow, or arrow-like’ with ‘Arrow, or Arrow-like’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf New Order series’ with ‘Lone Wolf New Order series’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf New Order books’ with ‘Lone Wolf New Order books’.

  (New Order Wisdom) Italicised ‘Lone Wolf’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘gods’ with ‘Gods’. Replaced ‘New Order adventure’ with ‘New Order adventure’.

  (1) Replaced ‘artifact’ with ‘artefact’.

  (2) Replaced ‘hilt, then’ with ‘hilt; then’.

  (4) Replaced ‘Kai weapon’ with ‘Kai Weapon’.

  (6) Replaced ‘bas reliefs’ with ‘bas-reliefs’. Replaced ‘And, to the left’ with ‘To the left’.

  (8) Replaced ‘seemlessly’ with ‘seamlessly’. Replaced ‘Clunk!.’ with ‘Clunk!’.

  (11) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’. Replaced ‘infra-vision’ with ‘infravision’. Replaced ‘pole-arms’ with ‘polearms’.

  (12) Replaced ‘meal of’ with ‘Meal of’. Replaced ‘recognize this bacteria’ with ‘recognize the bacteria’. Replaced ‘This raw bacteria is’ with ‘The raw bacteria are’.

  (13) Replaced ‘chest, then’ with ‘chest; then’. Replaced ‘battle tunic’ with ‘battle-tunic’. Replaced ‘advanced Kai curing’ with ‘Magnakai Curing’.

  (16) Replaced ‘barge it’ with ‘barge into it’.

  (17) Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘rib-cage’ with ‘rib cage’.

  (18) Replaced ‘limp, then’ with ‘limp, and then’.

  (20) Replaced ‘Defender, or’ with ‘Defender or’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘Elementalism, and’ with ‘Elementalism and’.

  (24) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’.

  (25) Replaced ‘gracious ease’ with ‘graceful ease’.

  (26) Replaced ‘Turn to 30’ with ‘Turn to 307.’ since the link to Section 30 is clearly wrong. Replaced ‘section of the landing and stairs are’ with ‘section of the landing and stairs is’. Replaced ‘Drakkarim assault troopers’ with ‘Drakkarim assault-troopers’.

  (27) Replaced ‘seemlessly’ with ‘seamlessly’. Replaced ‘turn to 250’ with ‘turn to 250.’.

  (28) Replaced ‘Turn to 6’ with ‘Turn to 6.’.

  (29) Replaced ‘turn to 270’ with ‘turn to 270.’. Replaced ‘turn to 133’ with ‘turn to 133.’. Replaced ‘turn instead to 52’ with ‘turn instead to 52.’. Replaced ‘rope, and’ with ‘Rope and’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’.

  (30) Replaced ‘shoulder, then’ with ‘shoulder; then’. Replaced ‘Turn to 240’ with ‘Turn to 240.’. Replaced ‘clang’ with ‘clang’. Replaced ‘spluttering torches’ with ‘sputtering torches’. Replaced ‘weapons’ with ‘Weapons’.

  (31) Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’. Removed the dashes around ‘Lightning Hand’. Replaced ‘turn to 157’ with ‘turn to 157.’.

  (32) Replaced ‘clear and so’ with ‘clear, so’ (cf. Section 118).

  (33) Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’. Removed the dashes around ‘Lightning Hand’.

  (35) Replaced ‘Dargorse buds’ with ‘dargorse buds’ as they are no longer in your possession.

  (36) Replaced ‘legs and’ with ‘legs, and’.

  (37) Replaced ‘turn to 78’ with ‘turn to 78.’. Replaced ‘turn to 329’ with ‘turn to 329.’.

  (38) Replaced ‘Old Kingdom spell’ with ‘Old Kingdom Spell’. Removed the dashes around ‘Shield’.

  (39) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’.

  (40) Replaced ‘black amulet’ with ‘Black Amulet’. Replaced ‘But as soon’ with ‘As soon’.

  (42) Replaced ‘turn to 337’ with ‘turn to 337.’. Replaced ‘turn to 257’ with ‘turn to 257.’.

  (43) Replaced ‘Ogshezar mountains’ with ‘Ogshezar Mountains’. Replaced ‘Vashna’ with ‘Zagarna’ as it was Darklord Zagarna who destroyed the Kai Monastery in MS 5050.

  (44) Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’. Removed the dashes around ‘Lightning Hand’. Replaced ‘Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Magi-magic and’.

  (45) Replaced ‘Elementalism, and’ with ‘Elementalism and’. Replaced ‘Bow, and’ with ‘Bow and’.

  (46) Replaced ‘The volley of deadly bolts slam into the parapet and whistle past your head’ with ‘The deadly bolts slam into the parapet and whistle past your head’.

  (47) Replaced ‘the rank Kai Grand Superior’ with ‘the rank of Kai Grand Master Superior’.

  (49) Italicised ‘Lone Wolf New Order’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘Duadon, in’ with ‘Duadon in’.

  (51) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’.

  (52) Replaced ‘of gully’ with ‘of the gully’.

  (53) Replaced two occurrences of ‘decanter’ with ‘Decanter’.

  (55) Replaced ‘newly arrived’ with ‘newly-arrived’. Replaced ‘semi-circular’ with ‘semicircular’. Replaced ‘not budge; it is’ with ‘not budge: it is’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Key, and’ with ‘Key and’.

  (56) Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘If you possess Kai-surge’ with ‘If you possess Kai-screen’. Replaced ‘pedestal. But’ with ‘pedestal, but’.

  (62) Replaced ‘agarashi that hail’ with ‘Agarashi that hails’. Replaced ‘twenty feet’ with ‘20 feet’.

  (65) Replaced ‘Old Kingdom spell’ with ‘Old Kingdom Spell’. Removed the dashes around ‘Shield’.

  (66) Replaced ‘A pair of bone Dice rest’ with ‘A pair of Bone Dice rests’. Added a paragraph break between ‘accordingly.)’ and ‘You are’. Replaced ‘these items in your Backpack adjust’ with ‘these items, adjust’ since a Spear is a Weapon not a Backpack Item.

  (67) Italicised ‘Lone Wolf New Order’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘Duadon, in’ with ‘Duadon in’.

  (68) Replaced ‘Kaistar’ with ‘ ‘Kaistar’ ’. Replaced ‘Raumas’ with ‘ ‘Raumas’ ’.

  (69) Removed the dash preceding ‘Invisible Fist’.

  (70) Replaced ‘ — Spawnsmite — you may’ with ‘ ‘Spawnsmite’ or ‘Valiance’ you may’.

  (71) Replaced ‘turn to 31’ with ‘turn to 31.’. Replaced ‘turn to 277’ with ‘turn to 277.’. Replaced ‘your weapons’ with ‘your Weapons’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Magi-magic and’. Replaced ‘Bow, and’ with ‘Bow an
d’.

  (72) Removed the dash preceding ‘Invisible Fist’.

  (74) Replaced ‘artifact’ with ‘artefact’. Replaced ‘Dazgannon’ with ‘Dazganon’. Replaced ‘Plain of Darkness’ with ‘Plane of Darkness’.

  (75) Replaced ‘Kagazitzaga range’ with ‘Kagazitzaga Range’. Replaced ‘And as you’ with ‘As you’.

  (76) Replaced ‘hilt, then’ with ‘hilt; then’.

  (77) Replaced ‘section of the landing and stairs are’ with ‘section of the landing and stairs is’. Replaced ‘Drakkarim assault troopers’ with ‘Drakkarim assault-troopers’.

  (78) Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’. Removed the dashes around ‘Levitation’. Replaced ‘barrier, then’ with ‘barrier; then’. Replaced ‘staircase. But’ with ‘staircase, but’.

  (79) Replaced ‘meal’ with ‘Meal’ as a reminder that this is a game mechanic.

  (80) Replaced ‘feet, then’ with ‘feet; then’.

  (81) Replaced ‘turn to 202’ with ‘turn to 202.’. Replaced ‘turn to 179’ with ‘turn to 179.’. Replaced ‘drupelets. But’ with ‘drupelets, but’.

  (84) Replaced ‘Spawnsmite’ with ‘ ‘Spawnsmite’ ’. Replaced ‘Valiance’ with ‘ ‘Valiance’ ’. Replaced ‘reptillian’ with ‘reptilian’ in the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘rounds, by’ with ‘rounds by’.

  (85) Replaced ‘backpack’ with ‘Backpack’.

  (86) Replaced ‘The sudden shock and the stinging pain of your wound spurs’ with ‘The sudden shock and the stinging pain of your wound spur’.

  (87) Replaced ‘Determindedly’ with ‘Determinedly’. Replaced ‘Kai rank of Grand’ with ‘rank of Kai Grand’. Replaced ‘Huntmastery, and’ with ‘Huntmastery and’.

  (90) Replaced ‘wall, then’ with ‘wall, and then’. Replaced ‘ — Firefall — ’ with ‘ ‘Firefall’ ’. Replaced ‘entity. But as’ with ‘entity. As’.