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Old 05-18-2019, 10:01 AM   #14
DouglasCole
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Default Re: Lasso Question

The way I wound up treating lassos, whips, and long poles with hooks on them using my Fantastic Dungeon Grappling concepts is that all of these tools allow a grapple from a distance. Once you spend an attack achieving said thing, then you could do grapply actions after that despite not being in close combat.

It does require GM adjudication or the application of some common sense: yes, you can drag someone around or yank them off their feet. No, you can't push on a rope. Yes, you can strangle someone, but no, you probably can't do a funky joint lock thing. Yes, the foe can also yank on YOU!

Precise mechanics aside, treating the tools as grapple-at-a-distance helps me resolve the "what works, what doesn't" stuff.
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