| Colette Brunel |
As far as I can tell, there are no rules for ambushing people in 2e apart from "use your Stealth in place of your Perception for your initiative." But what if the creature has higher Perception than Stealth and they try to launch an ambush? Are they just screwing themselves over?
This comes up a few times in Doomsday Dawn. The adventure prescribes in certain encounters that if the monsters have time to prepare, they use Stealth in place of Perception for their initiative, but some of those monsters have higher Perception than Stealth, so this is a debuff.
How is this supposed to work?
| Vition |
This is probably one of those places where you might want to use the Special Circumstances and Traits section (pg 327). I would use the higher of the two options and then give a bonus depending on how well the creatures hid (ie. their stealth check).
Just kind of spit-balling here, but I'd roll a group stealth check for the ambushers, then compare it to the perception of the characters (probably the one with the highest perception - depending on what that one is doing though). Without playing yet, I would probably set the bonuses at beating the static perception to be +1, beating it by 4 or more +2, beating it by 7 or more +3, critical success +4. Then with the reverse causing negative modifiers. With a maximum bonus being the difference between the perception and stealth bonuses.