10-30-2015, 10:29 AM | #1 |
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Lots of questions about the details in Heroes on the Mass Scale
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Re: Lots of questions about the details in Heroes on the Mass Scale
Umm, why would it? It's a block, not a parry. I'm confused by this statement. :-/
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10-30-2015, 12:19 PM | #3 | |
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Re: Lots of questions about the details in Heroes on the Mass Scale
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For example, a character with Boxing-12, Shield-16 and Shortsword-18 armed with a shortsword and small shield would be better off without the shield. +4 for Parry 12 and +2 for an extra parry vs. +5 for Parry 13 (including 1 DB) and no bonus for being able to block. |
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10-30-2015, 12:40 PM | #4 | |
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10-30-2015, 07:33 PM | #6 |
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Re: Lots of questions about the details in Heroes on the Mass Scale
Honestly, my experience is that you either build your Block super-high or you have just enough points in Shield/Cloak to wield a shield so you can get the DB for it to enhance your other defenses. That's have I've seen it consistently unfold for over a decade so that's how I wrote it.
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10-30-2015, 07:48 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Lots of questions about the details in Heroes on the Mass Scale
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I've never seen a character rely merely on a high Shield skill for defence. For one thing, a -5 to more than one Block in a turn is crippling.
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Re: Lots of questions about the details in Heroes on the Mass Scale
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The higher penalty to multiple Blocks makes Shield unsuitable for the only defence for powerful combat characters (anyone who expects to face more than one successful attack per turn), but the DB bonus counteracts this nicely when the character uses a Shield and Parry. In terms of threat or power level, characters wielding a rapier and main-gauche, scimitar and dueling buckler, falchion and hatchet, two shortswords or broadsword and shield are essentially equivalent, assuming that they have similar combat traits, mutatis mutandis.
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