Re: Limit on # of figures in HTH?

I like that! That's a good idea. Stealing it now... ;-)

On Saturday, January 28, 2017 7:19 AM, "jackal@speakeasy.net" <jackal@speakeasy.net> wrote:

We never set a limit on this per se. HTH was rare: the dangers from bystanders were too severe: or maybe my players were too sociopathic to care if they hit their friends...

We did rule that all animals engage HTH automatically on the turn after they first hit you, unless you also hit them. You can keep them away from you as long as you keep hitting them on turns when they hit you, but you're in HTH as soon as they hit and you miss. Makes even a couple wolves terrifying! And a lion or bear? You are dead.

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:04:39 +0000 (UTC), Jeffrey Vandine <jlv61560@yahoo.com> wrote:

As a rule of thumb, I think I set the limit to a total of seven -- one in the hex originally, and one from each hexside thereafter (six more). Multi-hex characters counted as the same number of characters as they had hexes -- thus up to two giants could attack one individual. For seven-hex creatures, the rule was no more than one at a time (unless two were engaging each other). I don't think the mechanic ever really got exercised after the incident which caused me to make the ruling in the first place...

On Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:33 AM, Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca> wrote:

Hi all,
The rules do not set a limit. The rules give an example where
someone is already in HTH, and say you can join the brawl
freely, so any house rule should allow at least 3 people.

I've allowed as many people to be in HTH as you like and in
MANY years of GM'ing I think the most I've seen was 5. Even
4 figures is pretty rare, because you are on the ground and
everyone standing around gets +4 adj DX. That tends to
discourage people from wanting to join the big brawls.

I'm wondering if this problem is big enough to be worth
writing a rule for it.

Rick.

On 2017-01-27, at 11:43 PM, Peter von Kleinsmid wrote:
> I'm not finding a published limit on the number of figures in one hex of HTH combat? Is there one?
>
> i.e., if 200 hobgoblins attack a human in armor and get him in HTH, how many can be in HTH with him at once and attack him in a single turn in HTH?
>
> What do you guys use?
>
> I think we used to say there was some limit before some people just started being squashed under the pile and unable to do anything, but I don't remember what limit we used.
>
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