(TFT) Parrying & Shield Block

["Chris Nicole" <chris@loran.karoo.co.uk>]

A tft house rule I use is to let fighters parry as an action instead of
making an attack.

Alf the Orc (A) strikes at Bill the Dwarf (B) - [A rolls a hit]
Bill trys to parry instead of making his own attack - [B rolls under his adj
Dx]

If Bill fails his adjDx roll Alf's attack cuts through and hits,
If Bill makes his AdjDx he parries Alf's attack.
Alf and Bill both roll for weapon damage;
    Subtract Bills damage from Alf's Damage. [A hits - B hits]
    If Alf inflicts more than Bill stops then Bill takes the surplus hits;
    [eg Alf rolls 8 hits, Bill rolls 6 hits, Bill takes 2 hits]
    If Bill stops more than Alf inflicts then neither take any hits.

Critical Hits and Fumbles count for both attack and Parry rolls.
    If a Parry fumbles they can lose their weapon as for an attack fumble.
    If a Parry scores a crit success they get doubled or tripled hits in
defence.

Alternately (this is up to the GM's Dramatic Interpretation!)
A critical Parry may disarm an attacker, and/or leave the attacker open to a
follow up attack.

If the defender has to make multiple parries in the same round then they
incur  -2 DX penalties for each additional parry.

A fighter can make an attack and a parry in the same round at -4Dx for the
second action (attack or parry).

Things get complicated when you start figuring in two weapons or Main
Gauche!
Then Dx-2 for the first action and Dx-4 for the second (as standard AM two
weapons rules?)

Shield Blocks work like parrying; A Shield stops 1D+ its usual hits stopped.
A shield always stops its basic hit stopped even if the shield block fails.

Critical hits and fumbles may disarm an opponent or lose the shield.

A shield bearer may make an attack in the same round they shield block at
Dx -2 for the second action (attack, block or parry)

Note; if the fighter doesn't have the Shield talent,  their Adj Dx for
shield block is at -4.


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