Question about Book 2 of Stolen Fate:
At the beginning of the book demons invade the Harrow Court. This event is managed through "Battle Rounds." Are "Battle Rounds" counted for each round of a combat encounter? For example, if the players rush off to defend one of the three points of entry... do they lose one Defense Point at the end of each of those combat rounds? If that battle takes 4 combat rounds, does that count as 4 "Battle Rounds"? I thought so, but it gets a little confusing when I see it says they can take a battle round off to get one hour of rest. Which makes it sound that each Battle Round is 1 hour.
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A Battle Round is a flexible unit of time that does away with the need for the GM to track the exact passage of minutes and hours during the course of this series of events. They are different from standard combat rounds. An entire combat is assumed to play out in the course of a single battle round.
Think of Battle Rounds not as set passages of time, but as set passages of significant events, or milestones in the course of the overall battle. A single attempt to resolve one of the combat events is a Battle Round (whether or not the PCs win), as is a single hour spent doing something other than attempting to resolve an event.