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Old 07-28-2021, 04:13 PM   #9
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Default Re: Corrosive damage on a striker attack

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Originally Posted by Stormcrow View Post
I don't think they were trying to outsmart the point-optimizers. Striker is simply a more specific version of Impaling Attack (Melee) that assumes the attack is growing out of your body, and so offers a number of special modifiers to reflect that.
One thing that just came to mind for Striker's benefit would be that it doesn't occupy your hand like Innate Attack (Melee -??%) would, so there's that benefit of having an extra limb not interfering with what you're doing with that limb.

That could matter in tabulating cumulative Parry penalties too.

Unless of course there's some examples of melee IAs which can be used without hands, or that it can be used while holding something?

Horror 96-97 for Ngojama has Impaling Attack (Melee Attack) described as...
spikes and fanged mouths in the palms of their hands
so presumably if they were holding a gun/sword they wouldn't be able to use that Innate Attack with that extremity.

though it does seem to support "you can use either hand" (just not simultaneously, that needs Dual enhancement) over "you need to pick one hand" since it uses hands plural but doesn't define separate Impaling attacks for Left/Right

of course someone with One Arm is obviously limited that way. Not sure about One Hand (can you shoot fireballs from a stump?)

I would assume the same is true of other stuff like Leprous Touch (H12) or Paralyzing Touch (H12) unless you took Aura in which case it could be delivered through any body part.

Do we know any examples of Innate Attack (melee) defined as a kick / bite / etc ?

Maybe you don't need Fine Manipulators to deliver these attacks (you can still have a "palm" without fingers?) but it seems like it should interfere with their use if you do have them.

Maybe that applies to the default Ranged version of Innate Attack too? IE no shooting a flamethrower from your palm while holding a gun, you need to open your palm which drops the gun?

Last edited by Plane; 07-28-2021 at 04:18 PM.
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