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Shostak · 03-28-2021, 11:16 AM

Yeah, the attacker has some serious advantages, not least of which is that two-thirds of the time, their HTH initiation will be successful, and, on succeeding, they leave their opponent without a weapon in their hand half the time. From my perspective, giving the defender a chance to actually inflict damage while the aggressor can't (having initiated HTH as their action) seems fair.

As for slimes, think they are more interesting if allowed to somehow initiate HTH other than the RAW conditions. I let them establish a grapple with an amoeboid pseudopod an then use that to get them into HTH.

03-28-2021, 11:16 AM	#16
Shostak Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: New England	Re: How do you adjudicate initiating HTH? Yeah, the attacker has some serious advantages, not least of which is that two-thirds of the time, their HTH initiation will be successful, and, on succeeding, they leave their opponent without a weapon in their hand half the time. From my perspective, giving the defender a chance to actually inflict damage while the aggressor can't (having initiated HTH as their action) seems fair. As for slimes, think they are more interesting if allowed to somehow initiate HTH other than the RAW conditions. I let them establish a grapple with an amoeboid pseudopod an then use that to get them into HTH.