07-07-2012, 10:18 AM | #21 | |
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Re: Multiple attacks with Staff?
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What some people at talking about is a quasi (if not out right) house rule that under the right condensations a staff can be treated as dual weapon. |
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07-07-2012, 11:59 AM | #22 |
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Re: Multiple attacks with Staff?
Add me to the tally of people who would find this acceptable.
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07-07-2012, 09:47 PM | #23 | |
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Re: Multiple attacks with Staff?
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But even then, I can see two swings to the head or torso, or anything in the same swing plane, as doable.
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07-07-2012, 10:44 PM | #24 |
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Re: Multiple attacks with Staff?
I sort of get the impression that DWA represents two attacks made at exactly (or close enough) the same time, with different weapons. Thus, "Dual-Weapon" attack. While it's not a requirement that the two attacks land at precisely the same time, I believe it might be a good guiding principle that they COULD be.
The stuff being referred to here, say striking the head, then the groin (or big toe, or whatever) with the staff nearly HAS to be, by that definition, a Rapid Strike. Hitting two adjacent fighters with oppostite ends of a staff gripped in the middle could legitimately fall under DWA, but hitting the same guy bang-bang is hard to imagine, and is thus Rapid Strike. Splitting the hairs finely, I admit, but I think that's where the dividing line falls. One last note: AoA(Feint and Attack) does not preserve defenses; selecting the All-Out maneuver denies all defense as a condition of going All-Out.
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07-07-2012, 10:47 PM | #25 | |
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Re: Multiple attacks with Staff?
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maybe, maybe two swing attacks to oppose sides of the torso could be a DWA |
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07-08-2012, 12:45 AM | #26 |
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Re: Multiple attacks with Staff?
Quite right, I was answering the question of "what can you do with a staff?" when it should be "what counts as a DWA?"
Having said that, shouldn't it be easier to swing with both ends of a staff than the -6/-6 of a Rapid Strike? The Rapid Strike penalty seems reasonable for say, a sword, where it has to be withdrawn, readied and swung twice, compared to a staff, where the first strike sets up for the second. Or is this just an argument for using Combinations?
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07-08-2012, 01:04 AM | #27 | |
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07-08-2012, 02:11 AM | #28 | |
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Re: Multiple attacks with Staff?
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but yes Combination is way to get your "one-two" rapid strike attacks down pat. No but an Attack Maneuver using Rapid Strike does preserve the defenses, but it will make the feint at a -6 penalty Last edited by roguebfl; 07-08-2012 at 02:15 AM. |
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