Incentivizing secondary attacks House Rule

[aesir23]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

This is precisely the sort of thing the Setup Attack is designed to help make happen mechanically, so (with obvious bias) I'd head down this route.

Thanks for reminding me about this. I just reread The Attack Sinester; I'd forgotten how much I love this rule! I like it even more now that I have started training in HEMA--this sort of thing is used more heavily in historical sword-play than it was in my previous martial arts.

It would make sense (as a house-rule, or perhaps a perk) for Set-up Attacks to gain some sort of bonus for variety--a high followed by a low, a thrust followed by a cut, switching weapons, etc. Or, perhaps more sensibly, a penalty if the set-up attack is too similar to the attack it's setting up.