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Old 04-21-2013, 11:00 AM   #15
Tomsdad
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Brighton
Default Re: Knowing the outcome of an attack before choosing to actively defend

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Originally Posted by Langy View Post
There's no reason to actually roll the defense until the outcome is known; just stating it should be fine.
Good point, it's just the commitment that's required. (Although if the assumption is it happened you might want to know if you had a critical success on the defence leading to a critical failure for the attacker). Critical successes are on defence rolls are pretty fringe, but if your defending more often it seems a touch unfair to remove you chances of getting extra critical successes, no matter how small. However given the majority of defence skills are between 7-14 I guess they balance out with critical failures so removing both by not rolling probably balances out overall.

Last edited by Tomsdad; 04-22-2013 at 12:52 AM. Reason: What ever the range is for 3-4 and 17-18 crits
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