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Originally Posted by ericthered
Its still a munchkiny pile of rules abuse!
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It's kind of a pointless waste of AP, there's a lot of risk of failure for a mere +1 to parry.
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Originally Posted by ericthered
Does that allow for free retreats backwards still?
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A basic universal AP income (AP for being alive, let's say) replacing the free step would mean you could either spend it on a retreat, a step, an attack, or just let it accrue to rebuild your pool.
Although this gives a "I can punch a boxing bag forever" problem, it doesn't really seem any more absurd than the "I can walk forever" problem with free steps.
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Originally Posted by ericthered
So its equivalent to giving do nothing a step?
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No, more like guaranteeing a DN gives you 1 AP back.
Another option might be, if guaranteed AP recovery is bad, is to give ALL maneuvers a HT roll to recover AP instead of the free step (so if you pass, you effectively got a free step) and give the ones that already had those rolls better bonuses (so say, +4 for an Evaluate/Waits, +8 for a Do Nothing?)
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Originally Posted by ericthered
When would you declare the AP spent? when they attack? That REALLY penalizes AOD. Right now its the default behavior when they're bearing down on you and you're exhausted, and I think that's the correct setting.
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Based on how AODs function like Waits (get a HT roll like Evaluate if untriggered) the basic difference is you get a chance to recovery AP or you get 2 potential AP.
I don't totally get why Waits untriggered become recovery maneuvers. I was thinking if untriggered they would just be zero-cost like a Concentrate or an Aim.
But for AOD, the idea seems to be that you get 2 free defence attempts, which is why half-cost defenses sounded like it.