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Old 05-30-2012, 10:12 PM   #22
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Default Re: tank skill: how to take a beating

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
It's basically a video game phenomenon; it wasn't in D&D before 4th edition, and I suspect it's an artifact of the difficulty of doing traditional wargame style positional defense in an MMO (old school computer games did defense via front row/back row).
It's been in AD&D ever since the 1st ed Dragonlance Adventures stated out the Kender's Taunt ability.
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