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Old 09-11-2020, 12:39 PM   #40
phiwum
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Default Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills

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Originally Posted by Skarg View Post
The "on any turn he attacks" wording is pretty unclear though preceding a list where option (c) doesn't involve any attacks.

It seems to me like it's also not well-defined whether you even Defend and pick option (c)? (i.e. Maybe not - maybe you need to take an Attack option and not actually attack to get the 4 hits stopped, so you can't also Defend to add dice to enemy to-hit rolls.)
Parrying with both weapons already adds one die to the to-hit roll, so reading it the way I suggested makes Parry something like Defend plus 4 armor (but not stacking with Fencer's additional die for Defend).

I originally read "parrying both weapons" as defend, but it ends up ridiculously powerful for Fencer. Attacker rolls five dice to hit and four hits are stopped. Instead, I think the fencer chooses between four dice and four bits of armor or five dice.

But I may be convinced I'm wrong.

Last edited by phiwum; 09-11-2020 at 01:03 PM.
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