12-18-2022, 04:00 PM | #31 |
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Re: Is there something about the slam rules I'm missing?
That would be up to the GM. And it doesn't even need to be larger than you - a wolf suddenly slamming into you, knocking you down, and then trying to eat your face could readily result in a Fright Check.
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12-18-2022, 04:34 PM | #33 | ||
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Also, it might look like useless flailing to us, but millennia of evolution has doubtlessly refined that flailing to be the absolute most adaptive flailing possible given the impala's physical limitations. That's not a useless panic reaction, that's how a creature with No Manipulators escapes a grapple by "wriggling". (MA 116) |
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12-18-2022, 04:36 PM | #34 |
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Re: Is there something about the slam rules I'm missing?
This is why the fight or flight rule in Horror is better than the just Do Nothing rule in the Basic Set.
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Flight Reflex. Similar to Combat Paralysis, but instead of freezing up, you “nope” out and flee. You receive –2 to Fright Checks. If personal harm seems imminent, make a HT roll when the danger frst appears. Regardless of HT, any roll of 14+ is a failure. Success lets you act normally; failure means you sprint away from danger for 1d seconds at maximum speed. You don’t stop until you feel safe (if you’re being chased, you’re not safe). Flight Reflex is mutually exclusive with Combat Reflexes (Adventurers, p. 48); it does not overlap with Cowardice (Adventurers, p. 58).
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12-18-2022, 09:49 PM | #37 |
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12-19-2022, 02:17 AM | #38 | |
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12-19-2022, 02:36 AM | #39 | |
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Re: Is there something about the slam rules I'm missing?
It seems like Fright Checks are based partly on how weird something is rather than on how dangerous it is.
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12-19-2022, 11:26 AM | #40 |
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