05-01-2017, 08:26 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Southern New Hampshire
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Parry or Block for someone else
I couldn't find this in older threads, and I don't remember this in the book (though it's possible I missed it): Is there an official way to handle someone blocking or parrying an attack aimed at someone else?
If you imagine three combatants standing in three hexes so they can all reach each other, and for the example, they each have a sword and a shield. Person A and Person B are on the same side, fighting against Person C. Person C manages to hinder Person A in some way that makes them an easier target, so on their turn, they attack Person A and Person A is in trouble. Person B is close enough to reach the other two, and in real life, I can imagine Person B trying to parry the attack or get their shield in the way to protect Person A. It happens in movies and shows often enough for me to think it's worth considering for GURPS too. Are there rules for that? Is it the case that if they're in reach, they can just make a normal block or parry for the person they're protecting? Maybe at a penalty (-2 or something)? Obviously it would count toward their defenses that round. Maybe even give them a penalty to defending themselves since they had to reach to protect someone else? Do the rules change if the attacker is trying to attack through the defender's hex to a hex behind the defender? I guess, failing official rules, has anyone put together house rules that have worked well? |
05-01-2017, 08:32 AM | #2 |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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Re: Parry or Block for someone else
I do believe the term you ought to be searching for is Sacrificial Dodge or Parry. Pretty sure it's somewhere in Martial Arts.
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05-01-2017, 08:34 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Re: Parry or Block for someone else
Sacrificial Parry and Shield-Wall Training perks allow those. Both are at least in Powerups perks
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05-01-2017, 08:44 AM | #4 | |
Join Date: May 2009
Location: In Rio de Janeiro, where it was cyberpunk before it was cool.
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Arguably, its such a powerful and unusual hability that maybe a perk is underpricing it. According to Kromm if you feint someone or/and use deceptive, the one doing the sacrificial defense is unnafected. |
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05-01-2017, 08:48 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Dec 2015
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Re: Parry or Block for someone else
The best that you get without diving into other rulebooks is Sacrificial Dodge, it's not written anywhere but I have ruled that succeeding by 3-DB lets the dodger interpose any shield as well.
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05-01-2017, 02:53 PM | #6 | |
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Southern New Hampshire
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I don't have a power-ups source. And I don't have the 4e martial arts book (though I will probably get that eventually). Has anyone used house rules for this, and what were they? |
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05-01-2017, 02:55 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Southern New Hampshire
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Re: Parry or Block for someone else
Interesting idea for the shield... instead of giving a specific separate option for block, use sacrificial dodge and allow for the chance the shield will be in the way of the attack. I like that. Thank you for that idea.
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05-01-2017, 08:11 PM | #8 | |
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Sweden
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05-02-2017, 12:04 AM | #9 |
Join Date: Apr 2017
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Re: Parry or Block for someone else
Sacrificial Dodge and Drop is in the 4e Base Set - Campaigns book, pg. 337.
I don't see anything about a Block version, but that's a pretty easy house rule to make. ;P |
05-02-2017, 09:33 AM | #10 | |
Join Date: May 2009
Location: In Rio de Janeiro, where it was cyberpunk before it was cool.
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You can parry any adjacent hex in which you would be able to parry (even behind you) if you could be able to parry that location, if you have the perk Both perks exist in power ups 2 |
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block, defense, parry, protect, sacrificial block, sacrificial dodge |
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