Initiating Hand-to-Hand Combat

[larsdangly]

It is good as is, but it would have also been good if it had been based on attributes and/or talents in some fashion.

[Skarg]

Originally Posted by larsdangly

I wasn't questioning the basic rule about prerequisites for initiating HTH; those strike me as quite sensible. What I had in mind is the case where you try to enter HTH from behind but roll a 5 on 'entry' roll (meaning you are forced back into the hex from which you approached). That one doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

During a five-second turn, with I-go, you-go movement, it makes more sense to me to allow a chance to resist being tackled from behind, than it would to allow them to always succeed, even moreso since they can include run-around movement.

Originally Posted by larsdangly

It is good as is, but it would have also been good if it had been based on attributes and/or talents in some fashion.

On this I completely agree (and q.v. GURPS), but of course that'd be for the House Rules subforum.