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Old 05-28-2022, 01:42 PM   #1
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Default Defending while disengaging?

I have a vague memory of this and not sure if this was a rule change or a house rule someone mentioned or a hexagram article.

That is, that a character may choose to defend in the turn that he intends to disengage.

Does anyone remember this? If sp. it is this official?
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Old 05-28-2022, 02:40 PM   #2
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Default Re: Defending while disengaging?

It's easy. Declare a defend and then if not attacked yet when your turn to act arrives just switch to disengage.
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Old 05-28-2022, 04:00 PM   #3
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It's easy. Declare a defend and then if not attacked yet when your turn to act arrives just switch to disengage.
Good point, but if you are attacked they you cannot disengage.

Okay so it sounds like what I was asking about is not a new official rule.
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Old 05-28-2022, 05:48 PM   #4
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Default Re: Defending while disengaging?

Drives me crazy that I can never find this in the rules when I go to look it up, but isn't there something about a +1 adjDX for waiting a turn to make an attack, up to a limit of 2 turns? I think that might be the thing that can be combined with the Defend option, but I'm not sure. Incidentally, it's not under Aimed Shots or Delayed Actions, although such a rule sounds like it would be logically under those sections.

Of course no sooner than I posted the above, I located it. It's the very last thing in the very long section headed "Special Situations", falling on p 127 of ITL:

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Waiting for an Opening – An Optional Rule
A fighter may spend up to two turns “waiting for an
opening” to make a regular or “aimed shot” attack. He may
not move, dodge, attack, disbelieve, etc., while waiting for
an opening, though he may defend against the figure he is
going to attack
. He gets +1 DX if he waits for one turn, +2 if
he waits for two.
The emphasis is mine. This may be the only situation where defend may be combined with anything else.
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Old 05-28-2022, 06:22 PM   #5
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Default Re: Defending while disengaging?

Hopefully waiting for an opening doesn't apply to spells or magic items so you can't defend, get a +1 to hit, then apply that to your Staff IV zap all in the same term.
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Old 05-29-2022, 07:48 AM   #6
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Default Re: Defending while disengaging?

My memory is that it was a rule change that was being considered. Or I guess it was a house rule. In any case, no one here remembers means it must have not come from here and not official.
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Old 05-29-2022, 07:49 AM   #7
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This may be the only situation where defend may be combined with anything else.
Good point. It is different but I had forgotten this. Can be useful. Thanks.
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