Recent content by Steel Rat

I doubt if there's any way to know if those historic leg hits were the result of deflections off shields or defensive weapons, or against mounted opponents where the legs would be the primary target.

The problem is that DR is all-encompassing, generalizing against everything equally. Something like a dagger is relatively effective against full plate, because it can be maneuvered in between the interlocking plates at critical joints, which is why many knights carried daggers as backup...

I appreciate the replies folks, I guess we'll just have to agree that people interpret things differently and have different life experiences. I still plan on changing this when I use RQ since I don't agree with it. I think there's a lot to be said in favor of the old AD&D combat system, and...

The defender isn't rolling to avoid the attack until there is a successful attack to avoid, and then only if they choose to. That's the backwards part. The defender's skill ISN'T factored in until the attacker can show that he knows how to hold the right end of the sword. And the attacker's...

But it doesn't make sense that the veteran fencer has exactly the same chance to fail no matter who his opponent is. Circumstances are almost always different, so why should that be a constant?

All well and good guys, but neither of you are addressing the fact that the attacker is rolling against himself initially, which doesn't make sense. They should be rolling against a base defense % of the defender, therefore making a skilled defender harder to hit initially than an unskilled one...

Seems like there is a lot of editing needing to be done to get rid of these inconsistencies. But shouldn't this be based on the defender and not the attacker? In the current situation the attacker has the same chance of the initial miss every time regardless of the defender. Not logical at...

I'm not sure if my question is related here. I don't have RQ yet, but looking at the SRD Combat section there is a matrix which shows a failure for both the Attacker and the Dodger. If the attacker has already failed, there is no reaction. So why is there an Attacker Failed (Weapon skill)? Or is...