Defending while disengaging?
 

I have a vague memory of this and not sure if this was a rule change or a house rule someone mentioned or a hexagram article.

That is, that a character may choose to defend in the turn that he intends to disengage.

Does anyone remember this? If sp. it is this official?

Re: Defending while disengaging?
 

It's easy. Declare a defend and then if not attacked yet when your turn to act arrives just switch to disengage.

Re: Defending while disengaging?
 

Good point, but if you are attacked they you cannot disengage.

Okay so it sounds like what I was asking about is not a new official rule.

Re: Defending while disengaging?
 

Drives me crazy that I can never find this in the rules when I go to look it up, but isn't there something about a +1 adjDX for waiting a turn to make an attack, up to a limit of 2 turns? I think that might be the thing that can be combined with the Defend option, but I'm not sure. Incidentally, it's not under Aimed Shots or Delayed Actions, although such a rule sounds like it would be logically under those sections.

Of course no sooner than I posted the above, I located it. It's the very last thing in the very long section headed "Special Situations", falling on p 127 of ITL:

The emphasis is mine. This may be the only situation where defend may be combined with anything else.

Re: Defending while disengaging?
 

Hopefully waiting for an opening doesn't apply to spells or magic items so you can't defend, get a +1 to hit, then apply that to your Staff IV zap all in the same term.

Re: Defending while disengaging?
 

My memory is that it was a rule change that was being considered. Or I guess it was a house rule. In any case, no one here remembers means it must have not come from here and not official.

Re: Defending while disengaging?
 

Good point. It is different but I had forgotten this. Can be useful. Thanks.