I've also messed with the idea of being able to use Two Weapons, or a shield, to defend and attack on the same turn. I thought that having your opponent roll 4 dice to hit, but you take -4 DX on your attack, was fairly reasonable.
But I think I like the DCG version better. They do have essentially a bidding system going, that could easily be used for attack/defense. Attacker rolls, however many dice they choose, to attack, and the defender rolls however many dice they choose, to defend. The higher number wins, but only if it doesn't go over that character's adjDX.
If using that rule, I'd probably make a couple of additional modifications:
- shields give a bonus to defense, rather than (or in addition to?) stopping hits. Lower-DX characters will love their shields; higher-DX characters will probably prefer to take two weapons and just dodge everything. Which seems appropriate.
- give characters an option to spend fatigue for a bonus to either attack or defense - again, tilts the playing field back towards lower-DX, higher-ST characters a bit.
I'm not sure whether I would add bonuses like these to adjDX, or to the roll. I'm tempted to go with the latter. Thoughts?
On 9/30/16 9:46 AM, Nathan Easton wrote:
I've considered doing something along the lines of a 1d6 multiple action penalty that you could use to create a sort of dodge or parry. So, if Defender wants to not get hit, they can attempt to parry (roll 3d6 against DX, just like an attack), and if they succeed the Attacker has to roll 4d6 against DX to hit them instead of 3d6.
But, doing more than one thing around (within the reasonable bounds of how many things you can do) each adds 1d6. So if our Defender wanted to Parry and still Attack, they'd have to roll 4d6 to parry and another 4d6 to attack. So they'd be worse off than the attacker, in that the attacker is rolling 4d6 only if the defender succeeds, but the defender rolls 4d6 for their own attack whether they successfully parry or not.
I had at one time an idea for essentially "bidding" D6 to scale attack and defense penalties, but ultimately I couldn't make it work the way I wanted to.
-N.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Dan <drfaustus61@cox.net> wrote:
I'm thinking of his "Dirt Cheep" line .... Dirt Cheep Dungeons, City, Village,
etc. They were buildings you made from folding cardstock. Really
ingenious stuff at the time.
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You know, it might be. I know he a couple of things : Stock Car Saturday
Night, Fortune's Colony
and his paper building line seemed to be going great guns for a while. No
idea if it's still active.
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Hartley
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 07:03:24 -0700
"Dan" <drfaustus61@cox.net> wrote:
Also Pocket Warrior and Pocket Wizard. They were sold in a CD case. I have a copy but forget who sold it now.
Wasn't that Guy McLimore's game? I have a number of things from that line,
though none of the CD-case items.
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