04-21-2013, 10:06 AM | #11 | |
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My first response as a player to this rule would be to ask you (assuming you are the GM) if you wanted to run games without combat in them, seeing how you just crippled our ability to survive said combats. My second response would be to retire my existing character and build a dodge/soak monkey (if you wanted to run games with combat) or a politically-inclined merchant (if you wanted to run games without combat) as appropriate. My first response as a GM would be to look at you (assuming you are one of my players) funny, point out that I regularly send twenty-ish opponents after the group, note how quickly this will result in the player-characters being very, very, dead and ask you if you wanted to play in a non-combat game instead ... Admittedly I run high-powered games with gobs of enemies and so my experience is going to be a tad different than yours. But still! Heh. |
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04-21-2013, 10:16 AM | #12 | |
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Don't get me wrong it's happened but they tend to learn the value of decent armour or discretion over valour at that point. |
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04-21-2013, 10:35 AM | #13 | |
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04-21-2013, 10:44 AM | #14 |
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Re: Knowing the outcome of an attack before choosing to actively defend
I remember to read something about tihs in a Pyramid article, but I cannot find it. Dont seen to be in the Alternate GURPS volumes. I am almost certain that was something writed by T-Bone.
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04-21-2013, 11:00 AM | #15 |
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Re: Knowing the outcome of an attack before choosing to actively defend
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.
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04-21-2013, 11:01 AM | #16 | |
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04-21-2013, 11:04 AM | #17 | |
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04-21-2013, 11:11 AM | #18 |
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Re: Knowing the outcome of an attack before choosing to actively defend
I've never been in a fight or even seen a real fight where a person threw a feint so bad or missed with an attack so badly that the opponent didn't react to it. Even if it's just getting hit because their reaction was too slow. Even bad blows get blocked, parried or dodged. Not reacting only happens when the opponent is stunned, blindsided or covering up.
What any boxing match or UFC fight fight and see if you can spot one.
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04-21-2013, 12:15 PM | #19 | |
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That would seem to be a less favourable outcome than a critical hit on defence against a successful hit on attack? Or do you mean a Critical failure on a hit combined with a successful defence roll gives a free defence. I think both are the same margin of difference on the comparative success scales: Critical success attack - successful attack - missed attack - critical miss on attack and Critical success defence - successful defence - failed defence - critically failed defence |
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04-21-2013, 12:16 PM | #20 |
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Re: Knowing the outcome of an attack before choosing to actively defend
Don't know where I read the following but it was probably Kromm:
How come I know when I don’t have to defend? It's important not to imagine that the defender is standing still and only reacting to a direct and successful attack. This creates a bizarre scene where you know the attack is going to miss and just stand there, and the attacker is whacking at the air beside you in an utterly inept manner. Just because an attack "missed" doesn't mean you aren't defending. It just means the attack was clumsy enough that any sort of defending was minor and required so little effort that it didn't consume your active defence. It only counts as an active defence if the attack was successful and therefore took enough effort to deplete your defences. Missing, in the chaos of battle, often means that you failed to anticipate your opponent’s movements and adjust to them, and ended up attacking somewhere he wasn't, grazing his shield or putting your attack where it could be easily and effortlessly deflected. In practice the enemy is moving about (dodging), hiding behind his shield (blocking) and trying to brush aside your attacks (parrying) the whole time. I'd be delighted if one of you Gurus could correct me.
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