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There was quite a long discussion on this some while back - my personal preference is to make Choose Location a critical only CM for ranged weapons.

No - Look at the first paragraph on page 140 of the legend core rulebook (part of the rules on Weapon Reach - Closing and Disengaging): "Once within the reach of the opponent's weapon, the advantage switches to the wielder of the shorter weapon. The opponent now cannot parry with his weapon...

Should have added: If you don't like the forced discorporation paradigm, then I'd go with option 3 from the original post.

Ditto. My understanding of the intention of the MRQII/Legend spirit combat is that, in the situation described in the first post, the defender's spirit would literally be forced into the spirit realm by the hostile spirit. In those circumstances, I don't see how he could do anything in the...

Just wanted to post a quick word of praise for the Mongoose staff - I put in an online order for Spider God's Bride on Thursday and it arrived on Friday!! And it's a cracking book ...

Another possibility I've used in the past is to let each player roll up stats for, say, four or five characters each and then choose which one they want to keep. Of course, being terribly old fashioned, I'm also tempted to say: don't come with a set view to playing a particular concept -...

Reflected wound?

When I first started playing D&D back in the 70s, before we'd ever heard point-buy we used to roll up stats for about half a dozen characters then choose the one(s) we most wanted to play.

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I'd second that. His current Anglo-Saxon series is very good too.

Well that's a matter of interpretation. The 1e AD&D Monster Manual does not actually describe them as reptilian. The description refers to their "hide" and says they have no hair. The illustrations do depict them as scaly - but then there are mammals with scales, like armadillos and pangolins...

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If you really want to do something, then I would say No.2 is the way to go. In effect you are defining weapon styles very narrowly, so they have to consist of exactly the weapons named in the style or there is a penalty. There's nothing inherently wrong with that - the point of weapon styles is...

My two coppers: 1. Fighting with a a one-handed weapon and shield should be mechanically superior to fighting with the weapon alone. Historically, at least throughout the ancient and medieval periods, you will find very few examples of warriors using a one-handed weapon without a shield - at...

But is it? I sort of agree that it seems like it should be. But should a man-sized scarecrow with its legs covered be harder to shoot than, say, a goblin in the open? Under the RAW, SIZ penalties only kick in if the target is smaller than SIZ 5 - and bonuses only come into play if its above SIZ...