Feint and other combat questions.

[LBurger]

Hey all.

Well, i have some questions as how you deal with some stuff in combat, hope you can help me with your thoughts:

1) If someone hit a critical hit in a Feint check, what happens? The opponent cant defend the attack or something?

2) If the someone is lying down, and an attacker Feints him, does the prone guy have -4 penalty to his Feint check?

3) If I have Dual Weapon Attack, can I Feint with one weapon and attack with the second in the same round (benefiting from the Feint)?

4) If I have Dual Weapon Attack, I cant trade one of them to make a Rapid Attack, right?



If anything else comes to my mind, ill post here.

Thx in advance.


Burger

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by LBurger

Hey all.

Well, i have some questions as how you deal with some stuff in combat, hope you can help me with your thoughts:

1) If someone hit a critical hit in a Feint check, what happens? The opponent cant defend the attack or something?

Feints are quick contests, as such, there are no crits (successes or failures)

2) If the someone is lying down, and an attacker Feints him, does the prone guy have -4 penalty to his Feint check?

Not sure, but I would say that no.

3) If I have Dual Weapon Attack, can I Feint with one weapon and attack with the second in the same round (benefiting from the Feint)?

Yeah, fairly common in my games.

4) If I have Dual Weapon Attack, I cant trade one of them to make a Rapid Attack, right?

Burger

No, you can not perform dual weapon attack and rapid strike on the same turn

[LBurger]

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

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3) If I have Dual Weapon Attack, can I Feint with one weapon and attack with the second in the same round (benefiting from the Feint)?

Yeah, fairly common in my games.

But if I attack with one weapon, feint with the second, the Feint aplies to ALL attacks made in the next round, right (as it states that a Feint lasts for 1 second).

[Dinadon]

Originally Posted by LBurger

But if I attack with one weapon, feint with the second, the Feint aplies to ALL attacks made in the next round, right (as it states that a Feint lasts for 1 second).

You should see Martial Arts, pg 127, which goes into this in detail. in short your feint gets to apply to one turn's worth of attacks. If you attack after you feint, but on the same turn, then it applies that turn. If your attack is instead on your next turn it will be that turn that feint applies.

[LBurger]

Originally Posted by Dinadon

If your attack is instead on your next turn it will be that turn that feint applies.

I see that. But if I have a Double Weapon Attack, use one to attack and the other to feint, the feint will aplly too all my attacks next turn, right?

[Joseph R]

Originally Posted by LBurger

I see that. But if I have a Double Weapon Attack, use one to attack and the other to feint, the feint will aplly too all my attacks next turn, right?

I don't believe so.

If you feint and attack all in same turn, then you don't also get a whole other second's worth of feint benefit on your following turn as well. It would probably be legit to do some multiple "attack" action that ended with the Feint, if you wanted the benefit next turn. But then that would be instead of the benefit on this turn, of course.

Getting the benefit over 2 turns could be quite unbalancing. Consider that it's legal for any person to combine Rapid Strike with All-Out Attack and get three attacks in one turn. If you started with AoA (Feint) w/Rapid Strike and then followed with AoA (Double) w/Rapid Strike, that would give 5 attacks that potentially benefited from a single feint. Things would get even more abusive once you factored in characters with Extra Attack(s) who could do so without sacrificing defences.

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by LBurger

I see that. But if I have a Double Weapon Attack, use one to attack and the other to feint, the feint will aplly too all my attacks next turn, right?

if you feint as your LAST attack, then the feint will apply to all the attacks you made during your NEXT turn. Easy peasy