RE:a bit help with a rules revision on active defence and feint
(Date Posted:05/18/2008 20:32:18)
Let me see if I understand what you're doing. Let's say I am fighting against Senor Stinkypants (a foul and villainous antagonist if ever there was one). The evil Senor strikes at me with his sword (he has Attack(Fencing) 4) and rolls a 17. Since I have Parry (Fencing) 2, that hits. Under the old rules to stop the attack with an active parry I would have to roll Wits+Parry(Fencing) and beat a 17. Under your rule, I'd now need to beat a 25 (since his Attack is 4)? Now if, instead, he'd rolled a rediculous number (say 45) under the old rules I'd have to beat 45 to stop it. Under your rule I'd still just need to beat 25?
That is, unless he took a number of raises to his attack making the attack tougher to stop (the 45 would still have succeeded if he'd called say 5 raises). In that case I'd need to beat 50 (25 for his attack plus 5 raises)?
Ok, next. Feint is slightly different. With your new parry rules the attack can just be made more likely to hit. Feint stops the parry completely (not to mention any other active defense). So, IMHO it doesn't seem to need any tweaking. Just my general take (at least for the group I'm used to playing with). They wouldn't 'waste' the raises just to ensure the hit. They'd be MUCH more likely to go for the extra damage. I could see for special occasions with an especially tough villain, but then, he/she'd probably be doing that right back to them.
Couple of questions.
Since Riposte is half Parry, half Attack, can I use the raises to make sure the attack half of the Riposte is more likely to hit?
For that matter can I use the raises to ensure a hit on other 'attack-like' rolls (Corps-a-Corps, Bear Hug, Lunge, Pommel Strike, etc.)
Ok probably obvious but I'll ask anyway. If Im using an active defense that isn't parry (because you specifically mentioned this applies to active parry) does this rule still apply?
Mark
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