Re: (TFT) Combined Offensive/Defensive Action

[Joe Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>]

Sorry, "defend," not parry.

Success makes attacks on them 4d6, not 3d6. 

Hm... I think I might like your idea of allocating Dx. Not sure i like "defending" equal attack Dx-defense Dx on 4d6, seems to make you near invincible. I think combining that with fatigue st for increased Dx could make it work though...

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On Aug 16, 2013, at 12:17 PM, raito@raito.com wrote:

>> I mentioned this in another email but haven't really used it before and
>> would like some feed back.
>> 
>> Do we think it'd be a good idea, as a house rule, to have on additional
>> action:
>> 
>> Anytime a character can Attack, they also have the ability to combine this
>> attack with a Dodge/Parry.
> 
> Depends on what you mean by Dodge/Parry. I'm not sure of your meaning.
> Currently, TFT has no Parry, so that's no much use in understanding, and
> Dodge is useful only for the disengaged. Do you mean that success means
> they're not hit?
> 
> One of the experiments I've run through the years involved being able to
> use DX for offense and for defense. On your action, you could allocate
> your DX to both offense and defense. For offense, what you allocated
> became your base DX until your next action. For defense, your opponent got
> modified down by the number of DX points you put into defense, but that
> only applied to guys in your front hexes (because you could do it to
> missle and thrown attacks, too). I don't quite recall if you could combine
> that with Dodge/Defend. I imagien I had it be one or the other, because
> the combo would be too good. If you're Dodging/Defending, you have no
> offense, so put all your DX into defense. So a DX 12 guy would lower the
> attacking adjDx by 12, along with requiring that extra die.
> 
> I combined this with my idea of a sliding damage die scale and burning ST
> (as fatigue) for attack Dx and damage dice.
> 
> It made straight up duels much more interesting. But it bogged down
> general combat some, and really changed the flow of combat. Not
> necessarily in an unrealistic manner, though. It became much more valuable
> than a DX mod to get to someone's side or rear. And it made combat either
> take a longer or shorter number of turns. Longer if the combatants were
> making it harder to hit each other. Shorter if someone guessed wrong and
> just hammered onj the first hit.
> 
> I suppose I ought to try to write this stuff up sometime.
> 
> Neil Gilmore
> raito@raito.com
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