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Old 04-27-2017, 06:32 AM   #10
Anaraxes
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Default Re: [Magic/Powers] Can you use Blink to escape a grapple?

You could have a reasonable and consistent interpretation where the caster chooses every time they blink. They'll often want to leave things behind. Sometimes they'll want to bring their attacker with them (blinking up into the air to drop their attacker, etc), which they could do if they had the proper Enhancements for carrying capacity and Affects Others. (It's a free extra attack, since this is a Reflexive ability used in defense.) So they could just specify what comes along every time they blink.

However, the makes an already-powerful ability even more powerful. It's not merely that grappling becomes useless, but merely touching the teleporter becomes extremely risky. Imagine not that you're playing the teleporter, but the strong and highly-skilled in martial arts attacker. How frustrated do you feel? Hence my inclination to go the other way, and limit the abuse before it shows up in the game.
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