[MA] Spinning Attack and Rapid Strike

[gmjasongurps]

Can you combine Spinning Attack with Rapid Strike?

[Gold & Appel Inc]

Originally Posted by gmjasongurps

Can you combine Spinning Attack with Rapid Strike?

Sure, but it's probably not a great idea unless you're insanely skilled because the -6 rapid strike penalty will affect the built-in feint effect and possibly blow back on you with a huge bonus to defense against both hits that nerfs the whole thing.

[gmjasongurps]

but if you use it as a Flurry of Blows then it is reduced to -3 with the expenditure of some FP, making it not that out there. im just trying to build a Trademark Move for a player who really wants to use the Spinning Attack.

Second question is, would BOTH Rapid Strikes benefit from the Spinning Attack?

[Gold & Appel Inc]

Originally Posted by gmjasongurps

but if you use it as a Flurry of Blows then it is reduced to -3 with the expenditure of some FP, making it not that out there. im just trying to build a Trademark Move for a player who really wants to use the Spinning Attack.

It can be viable, sure. Trained by a Master will help, too, if it's that sort of campaign. What you really want to do to make it a "trademark move" is let him buy the Technique Mastery (Spinning Attack) Perk for 1 point and invest 4 more points beyond what he was spending to raise Spinning Attack to Favorite Skill +0 to raise it to Favorite Skill +4, pimping that one move out for a total additional investment of 5.

Originally Posted by gmjasongurps

Second question is, would BOTH Rapid Strikes benefit from the Spinning Attack?

You don't have to do the same move with both (unless you bought it as a fixed Combination that way), but you can. You may as well go for a second Spinning Attack or something else that requires a Committed or All-Out Attack if you're giving up your defenses anyway.

[bea_bumble]

Originally Posted by Gold & Appel Inc

You don't have to do the same move with both (unless you bought it as a fixed Combination that way), but you can. You may as well go for a second Spinning Attack or something else that requires a Committed or All-Out Attack if you're giving up your defenses anyway.

Is this really how this works? The Spinning Attack description sounds to me like it is not an attack that requires a Committed Attack or All-Out Attack maneuver so much as an attack that completely replaces the rules of those maneuvers (for example, increasing the defense penalty on a Committed Attack). Should Spinning Attack be an option for any attack made during a CA or AOA maneuver?

You couldn't, for example, do an AOA(Double) with a spinning attack, since Spinning Attack replaces the rules for AOA... So I'm hesitant to allow a spinning attack as a rapid strike.

[vicky_molokh]

RS is not the same thing as AoA, so technically it's combinable.