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01-21-2014, 02:42 PM | #42 |
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How do you pile up CP against a weapon without a Parry being allowed? It seems that all attacks that pile up CP are 'grappling' attacks and thus allow a Hands-Free Parry, even when no Parry is otherwise allowed.
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01-21-2014, 02:49 PM | #43 | |
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If I hadn't, Braelgar would simply have attacked a random hit location with a Defensive Attack swing. He'd have hit with a 16 and Mickey would have succeed at a Parry on an 11 (he failed against the Hook even though he was rolling against the same 11). If he had failed, he'd have taken a hit to the... (roll 3d, 13) Left Leg, on the (roll 1d, 5) thigh. Since he's wearing light field plate, particularly light on the legs (DR 4 or so), that's painful. ST 16 Weapon Master does 2d+7 cr even on a Defensive Attack, so that's 16 damage, of which 12 go through (reduced to 4 HP of damage by Mickey's IT:DR). Not a fight ender, but a fine start for Master Braelgar. However, not likely to teach me Technical Grappling.
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What you can get out of applying CP on the weapon is that you avoid the problem of trying to cancel out your opponent's leverage-boosted CP with your unaided CP. Quote:
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Well, okay, if they both retain their distance, it is far off in terms of relative skill, but Master Braelgar is not meant to be a fair fight for him that way. He's far more skilled and this fight would only happen in game to make up for Mickey humiliating him in a jousting match. And I imagined that Mickey's only hope was to turn it into a grappling match, where his ST +4 and Trained ST +8 relative to Master Braelgar could prove decisive.
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01-21-2014, 03:40 PM | #47 | |
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And it's not as if Mickey is supposed to have an all that good chance of winning a foot list duel against the greatest Master of Defence he knows about. Sir Michael is trained in the same style and well-regarded by most people who know about him, as a bit of a young prodigy, but, well, he's young. He's not the greatest living master yet. Losing to Master Braelgar, but making a good showing in the attempt, would still be good for his Reputation. *It's not forbidden, but it is assumed that only those whose concepts include a consistent run of luck will have it. Others have just occasionally spent CP for luck.
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01-21-2014, 04:16 PM | #49 | |
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On the other hand, that's done at skill 21 before CP penalties and his Wrestling grab would be done at skill 23 before CP, so maybe he'd be better off dropping his sword. What I think his player would do is take advantage of another house rule of mine, where if you Feint with a dangerous weapon and follow it up with an attack with a much less dangerous one, you get +2 for something like feinting with a sword and attacking with a dagger and a +4 for feinting with a sword, dropping it and attacking with bare hands. He'd Rapid Strike, 2 attacks at -3 per. First he Feints an attack at Master Braelgar's head with his Two-Handed Sword and when he steps back to try to avoid it, Mickey tries to grab the halberd with Wrestling. Using Luck, he wins the Feint with enough to give a -6 penalty to Master Braelgar's active defences and then he makes his grab at skill 12, which gives a further -4 (not reduced for Style Familiarity, as the now-unarmed Mickey can use Battlerager Rasslin', a style Master Braelgar is not familiar with). Master Braelgar has to sidestep on his retreat to avoid stepping out of the circle, so he does not get a Retreat bonus to his Hands-Free Parry. That means it's at 8 or less. He spends a FP, but still fails with a 12. Mickey grapples the halberd and rolls 2d+2 CP for his Trained ST of 26, reduced by the grapple. That gets him 11 CP. Now things are quite different for Master Braelgar, of course. Luck to the rescue! That's probably a victory, as Sir Michael is a better unarmed fighter than Master Braelgar and even if they drew rondels, their skill there is about equal and the live hand used for grappling would favour Mickey.
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It's a minor point, but I think he can do a little better. After all, he's already got one leg involved in the grapple. So he uses 1.1*ST rather that 1*ST when he grapples the halberd, which seems like it should give him Trained ST 28.
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