(TFT) I need clarifications on sweeping blows...

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 18:14 -0500 11/5/08, Jim Z wrote:
> From my understanding of the wording of it in advanced melee, it seems like
> you only make one roll at -4 DX.

We have always played that the character making the sweeping blow 
rolls once for each potential target. A "drop" or "break" halts the 
sweep, other misses allow it to continue on to the next target. So 
it's possible to miss two and hit the third, or any other combination.

> Also, what about friendly figures?  It says you must roll to miss friendly
> figures.  When does that come in?

In sequence (Left to right or right to left, as the figure chooses 
before starting to roll). It's a normal "roll to miss", but (of 
course) at -4 DX, so his friends better be lucky.

> Also, what would happen if someone had the eyes behind spell on them, which
> would give them 5 hexes to attack in?

Yeah, baby! ;-)

We discussed this and agreed to play it that way, if a character ever 
got there. Certainly a big weapon used like that would swing through 
the full 300-degree arc. Assuming the Eyes-Behind spell lets you 
target characters in the ex-"side" hexes, we could not see a reason 
to prohibit you from hitting them with a sweeping blow as well as 
with a normal attack.

It has to be admitted, this could easily be a cinematically 
unbalancing tactic. Any character that can survive amid 5 opponents 
long enough to launch the -4 DX sweep can really change the course of 
a battle if he rolls well during the sweep.
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