[larsdangly]

I think of the lasso as one of a bunch of options available to combatants that are exceptionally effective in just the right white-room situation, but in practice they don't end up seeming that awesome because the characters you create to take advantage of them are vulnerable in other ways. E.g., arquebussers and grenadiers, or wizards casting Hammertouch, or Sha-ken experts. You could probably think up a dozen or so things like this. I haven't experienced any of them taking over player's approaches to combat.