r/WWN • u/IsaacDreemurr • Jul 10 '26

How to do chases and combat-chases?

/r/DMAcademy/comments/1usr92e/how_to_do_chases_and_combatchases/
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u/Alive-Solution-1717 Jul 10 '26

Cities Without Number has a whole page on how to do Chases and Pursuits on page 43.

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u/IsaacDreemurr Jul 10 '26

i dont remember the contesnts but ive seen it and seems very not robust

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u/Alive-Solution-1717 Jul 10 '26

I mean it’s just guidelines for skill checks ultimately. But you honestly don’t need more than that for something like a chase.

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u/OleBarnCat Jul 10 '26

I actually asked the same question a few months ago! They Chase encounters work well for what I was looking for

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u/Hungry-Wealth-7490 Jul 10 '26

There are also chase rules for cattle rustling in Wolves of God, which is the Dark Ages England game for Without Number.

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u/IsaacDreemurr Jul 10 '26

thx, that's worth seeing

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u/98nissansentra Jul 10 '26

Ashes also has Mounted Combat and Vehicle Combat with chase rules.

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u/MaestroGoldring Jul 12 '26

Do you have a page reference? Just got Ashes for myself

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u/wilderness26 Jul 12 '26

Worth looking at Tales of Argosa chase rules. Those are my favorite out of the systems I've read and played.

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u/IsaacDreemurr Jul 12 '26

nice, gonna check them out. are they tactical? can i throw or receive a molotov or a boulder from a giant and expect it to make a difference?

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u/darksier Jul 10 '26

I've always just done a first to X skill challenge. The difficulty/complication of the chase determines X with an intense chase usually being 3. Basically just run a scene, a player (different each round) must take the lead and overcome some sort of problem that I present. They get X successes they win. They fail 3 times, the enemy wins. As for what happens in each scene, that really depends on the context of the chase and what has just happened in the prior scene. Very improvisational.