09-11-2020, 07:44 AM | #31 |
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Durham, NC
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Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills
Yes, adding alternate names for shields to this list would be nice.
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09-11-2020, 10:01 AM | #33 | |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
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Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills
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I was thinking of things a bit differently when it comes to Defend and Parry. Option 1: Defend. Attacker rolls five dice if the defender is a Fencer. No hits stopped unless secondary is M-G in which case one hit stopped. Option 2: Parry. Attacker rolls four dice and four hits are stopped. I read it this way because the parry with both weapons option is described as something the player can do "on any turn he attacks" and Defend is not an attack. If you're just using the two-weapons skill, then Defend only yields four dice to-hit and so is inferior to Parry. |
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09-11-2020, 10:06 AM | #34 |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
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Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills
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09-11-2020, 10:11 AM | #35 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills
Re. the various types of shields, in the end the question is what one should do about it in the game. Given the structure of TFT, you only have a few choices:
1) assign bucklers an armor score of 0, meaning they are a pointless extravagance. 2) add a new category very small shield and shift everything up 1 point (so we have a 4 point shield) 3) don't worry about it, and just accept that 'small' might mean anything from 'not really that small' to 'very small'. |
09-11-2020, 11:58 AM | #36 |
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: North Texas
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Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills
Or 4) Fix how shields are presented in TFT (proper shield use should prevent the hit entirely, not stop a few points of damage).
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09-11-2020, 12:06 PM | #37 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills
Ok, I'll stop using the word buckler at all. What the word "buckler" means was never relevant even to the side-topic where it was mentioned.
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09-11-2020, 12:17 PM | #38 | |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills
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It seems to me like it's also not well-defined whether you even Defend and pick option (c)? (i.e. Maybe not - maybe you need to take an Attack option and not actually attack to get the 4 hits stopped, so you can't also Defend to add dice to enemy to-hit rolls.) |
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09-11-2020, 12:20 PM | #39 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills
Yeah. At the point that I'm caring that much about details, I'm probably going to want to switch to house rules that model defenses better, or GURPS (which already does).
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09-11-2020, 12:39 PM | #40 | |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
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Re: Questions about fencing and two-weapons skills
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I originally read "parrying both weapons" as defend, but it ends up ridiculously powerful for Fencer. Attacker rolls five dice to hit and four hits are stopped. Instead, I think the fencer chooses between four dice and four bits of armor or five dice. But I may be convinced I'm wrong. Last edited by phiwum; 09-11-2020 at 01:03 PM. |
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