05-05-2020, 07:49 AM | #12 |
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Re: Melee question on HTH
Bears have a ridiculously low MA in TFT, but that's another issue.
If you want to keep wolves and other beasts from engaging PCs in HTH, you could go with the RAW solution of simply carrying torches (see ITL 124). This strikes me as overestimating fire's effect on animals. |
05-05-2020, 09:07 AM | #13 |
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05-05-2020, 09:09 AM | #14 | |
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Re: Melee question on HTH
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The one-hour torch is about right, the problem is that a two-hour lantern would be burning so hot it that counts as a weapon in its own right. In any case a torch shouldn't protect against the wolves jumping you from behind while the humans are slowed by snow on the ground. (counts as fallen body hexes for humans, no penalty for the wolves?)
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05-05-2020, 10:51 AM | #16 |
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05-05-2020, 11:30 AM | #18 |
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Re: Melee question on HTH
Strange wording, indeed. One would think it should say, "An animal making an attack against someone wielding fire or into a fire hex is at -2 DX..." rather than predicating the DX penalty on the animal's being attacked by fire. One more reason to just house-rule it all away.
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05-05-2020, 12:05 PM | #19 | |
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Of course, never having been put in that scenario, I can only rely on what I've seen in movies or on TV. ;)
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05-05-2020, 12:39 PM | #20 |
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Re: Melee question on HTH
If the DX penalty is founded upon the animal's being attacked, there are questions that the rules don't give guidance on but which require answers:
Does the penalty apply to attacks the animal makes against any figure, or just the one that made the fire-based attack? What about ranged fire attacks? How long does the penalty last? |
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