03-22-2015, 05:48 AM | #11 |
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Re: Can you Parry a Bear?
BL/2 instead of ST×1, assuming you're using the new Combat Write Large ruleset, BTW.
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03-22-2015, 05:59 AM | #12 |
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Re: Can you Parry a Bear?
You're correct. I inverted the BL calculation incorrectly in my head, and divided the bear's weight by 5 rather than multiplying. No doing arithmetic before coffee, evidently.
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03-22-2015, 04:46 PM | #13 |
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Re: Can you Parry a Bear?
Is it a hand held bear, a thrown bear, or fired from a bear cannon?
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03-22-2015, 05:31 PM | #14 | |
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Re: Can you Parry a Bear?
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03-22-2015, 06:16 PM | #15 |
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Re: Can you Parry a Bear?
Those rules seem a little off to me. So a 19 ST Grizzly is easier to parry than a 3 lb broadsword in the hands of a ST 10 man (or woman)?
You could also stop the tusks of a Bull Elephant, or even tail swipe/bites/claw attacks of a ST 100 Dragon? The Dragon would need 100 ST before you'd even need to check for breakage. A ST 80 Dragon could be parried by a normal broadsword without even having to check for breakage. Also, after looking over the rules, I notice that a Rapier can Parry a Greatsword without having to even check for breakage. Anyone else think the weapon breakage rules need a little tweaking? |
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The only thing that really matters is the effective weapon weight of the bear claw of 1.9 pounds, vs the (in the case of a broadsword) 3 pounds of the weapon. In order for the 3 pound broadsword to be broken parrying another weapon, the parried weapon would have to be more than 9 pounds. The bear paw thing is just for the swipe, a charge or other aspects would use other rules. The end result is that it is no easier, or harder to parry based on weight. The difficulty is based entirely on the target number (parry number) that you have to roll against. This is simply about the chance of breaking the weapon. Quote:
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Note also that, even if you do parry something heavy enough to risk breakage, the initial breakage chance results only on a 1 or 2 on a 1d roll.
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03-22-2015, 07:03 PM | #17 |
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Re: Can you Parry a Bear?
Something I would take into account beyond "Can you parry?" and "Did it break my weapon in the process?" is how much damage would have been done and assess knockback, or treat it as a slam if it can't conceivably be redirected away to avoid damage.
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03-23-2015, 03:33 AM | #18 |
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Re: Can you Parry a Bear?
Maybe something like "if your margin of success on Block is 0 or 1 you still take knockback damage"?
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05-24-2017, 02:56 PM | #19 |
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Re: Can you Parry a Bear?
Pyramid #77: Combat
Combat Writ Large Here are optional "more realistic" rules for attacks of high ST and natural attacks. |
05-24-2017, 05:55 PM | #20 |
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Re: Can you Parry a Bear?
It's clear from this thread that's it's more effective to bludgeon someone with a grizzly bear than simply have the bear attack them.
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