12-13-2018, 04:46 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Deceptive Move and Attack
Can a Move and Attack be Deceptive?
You can only make a Deceptive Attack if your effective skill after all other modifiers would still be 12 or higher, and Move and Attack reduces your effective skill to 9 after all modifiers, so I guess this boils down to whether the 9 or less cap from Move and Attack counts as a modifier as far as Deceptive Attack is concerned. Conceptually I could see it go either way: it could be hard to see it coming with all that extra movement, or it could be impossible to get the kind of precision needed to penalize the target's defenses. |
12-13-2018, 05:08 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Montréal, Québec
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Re: Deceptive Move and Attack
Hard no, you can’t.
You have to read back up to the Melee Attack Options header on Exploits p. 38: “When taking an Attack or All-Out Attack maneuver in melee combat, you may specify two further options.”
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12-13-2018, 10:27 AM | #4 |
Join Date: Sep 2018
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Re: Deceptive Move and Attack
I think the reasoning is that you're hurtling yourself headlong as your opponent with your blade up. It's not a calculated attack that involves skilled weapon finesse. Hence the brutal skill limit.
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