[Last Gasp] Does All-Out Defense recover AP?

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by Captain Joy

This confuses me. How would taking All-Out Defenses every allow you to "recover" AP? You temporarily gain 2 AP, which you lose if not spent on defensive actions. I that the "recovery" being referred to?

The only thing I can think of is a case where someone doesn't have the AP for a Move maneuver, so they take All-Out Defense: Increased Dodge which allows you to move up to half your Move. Is that what is being referred to in the 2nd quote above? Or are there other things I am missing?

Let me check; that might be a simple inconsistency . . . yep. That's errata in phrasing.

AoD is a Zero-Cost event, but doesn't recover AP as written.

I'd treat AoD that doesn't spend any AP on defenses as a Wait - make a HT roll with no bonus to recover AP. Basically, any time you "accidentally" do nothing without actually Doing Nothing, it would be fair to treat this as a flat HT roll to recover AP.

Good catch.