(TFT) D&D Backstab (was Ogre PC)

["Todd Roseberry" <paleryder1@verizon.net>]

How prophetic. I'm dealing with the "backstabbing" issue as I write!

I've offered up to extend dagger marksmanship to allow backstabbing. Here it 
is:

(expansion of "Dagger Marksmanship" Advanced Melee page 21). No cost. 
Anyone can do it.that can do it, that is.


This represents the skill of placing the knife skillfully into the enemy by 
avoiding armor protection and destroying vital organs or arteries thereby 
usually causing immediate death.


Can be executed from an opponent's rear hex in regular combat or after 
pinning a foe in HTH combat. If in regular combat, attacker cannot be 
engaged by another figure and perform the backstab; he must be free to move 
about. He may execute the "backstab" regardless of how he got in the rear 
hex, either by regular movement, stealth or acrobatics.



This attack can be done only with a knife and the attacker cannot have 
anything else in either hand. While in the rear-hex  the attacker declares 
"backstab" and rolls to hit at -6DX (remember, you get +4 for being in the 
rear hex and +2 for being in the side hex).



If attempted in HTH, the attacker must first pin the opponent. The next 
turn, if the attacker has a knife drawn, may attack at -6 in HTH. If he does 
not have a knife, he may attempt to draw one. If he attempts to draw a 
dagger after pinning his enemy, then he makes a 4d6 DX roll to accomplish 
this due to the fact that he's actively pinning someone; if he was just in 
HTH and had yet to pin the enemy then it's a 3d6 DX check. In neither case 
does he get the +4DX adjustment for HTH when attempting to draw a dagger. 
When attempting the backstab in HTH after pinning the enemy, the attacker 
DOES NOT get the +4 in HTH combat that he would normally get for an attack 
with a dagger. The reasoning is that he is expending some energy, effort and 
focus on keeping the enemy pinned while attempting to employ the knife. It's 
more difficult to puncture the subclavian artery while you're continuing to 
hold the enemy in submission.



If you hit, you do DOUBLE DAMAGE and armor does not stop. Stone Flesh, Iron 
Flesh or natural armor will stop hits. Regular daggers, therefore will do 
2-2 damage. Since this is consistent with the dagger marksmanship, I don't 
feel like a heretic. The only part I'm not sure about is denying the +4 
modifier in HTH.


Any thoughts?

Aidan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Thorn" <prophesor@yahoo.com>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: (TFT) Ogre PC


> TFT is not a combat patch on D&D.  Especially when the GM is going to 'use 
> D&D the rest of the game'.
>
> You will find some player will insist you fulfill the promise of some D&D 
> 'ism', which TFT will not support.
>
> "But Magic Missle always hits!"  "But I'm backstabbing!"  or other such.
>
> I wish you the best of luck, but you would be well advised to get the GM 
> to allow you input on what sort of items and powers 'the rest of the game' 
> might inject into the TFT combat.
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