Fast Draw critical success

tbone · 01-25-2023, 06:36 AM

Hm. There doesn't need to be a crit success bonus for all actions, especially an action with the binary simplicity of "you either did or did not draw a weapon fast enough to ignore a Ready".

But, in the name of fun, let's see if we can think of one...

How about borrowing from the rules for surprising a foe with a weapon hidden via Holdout? (See Exploits p58; the same probably exists somewhere in GURPS too.)

Here Holdout isn't relevant; I'm just thinking similar effects: Critical success on Fast Draw means that, if you immediately attack a foe that turn, your blinding speed from scabbard to attack means the foe takes a penalty to Active Defense.

What do you think?

01-25-2023, 06:36 AM	#2
tbone Join Date: Aug 2004	Re: Fast Draw critical success Hm. There doesn't need to be a crit success bonus for all actions, especially an action with the binary simplicity of "you either did or did not draw a weapon fast enough to ignore a Ready". But, in the name of fun, let's see if we can think of one... How about borrowing from the rules for surprising a foe with a weapon hidden via Holdout? (See Exploits p58; the same probably exists somewhere in *GURPS* too.) Here Holdout isn't relevant; I'm just thinking similar effects: Critical success on Fast Draw means that, if you immediately attack a foe that turn, your blinding speed from scabbard to attack means the foe takes a penalty to Active Defense. What do you think? __________________ T Bone GURPS stuff and more at the Games Diner: http://www.gamesdiner.com RSS feed \| Site updates thread \| Twitter/X: @Gamesdiner (dormant until the platform is well again) (Latest goods on site: No Big New Content of late, but the blogroll has returned to the sidebar, this page collects content edits/updates, and this page hosts minor notices and side thoughts of the sort that used to go to Twitter/X.)