Dodge/Parry

[Hyborian]

The Player's Update PDF really clarifies the Dodge/Parry rules, but I still have a question (sorry if has already been answered elswhere) : what happens when the defender has alreay used all his Reactions and cannot dodge or parry ?

 

[hdrider67]

A fair amount of bleeding?

 

[B_Steele]

He is likely to get handed a beating.

 

[Shadow Queen]

you mean A$$ kicking Bry?

 

[Shadow Queen]

going off topic by a mile here in the update pdf it says the perception and Resilance changes but the Chariter sheet was not updated why?

 

[Hyborian]

I mean : attacks are opposed checks, and the result depends on both the attack roll and the dodge/parry roll. If the defender cannot take a reaction, he cannot roll. Then how do you decide the result of the attack ?

 

[gamesmeister]

Page 50 of the Deluxe rules:

"If the attack was unopposed, then the defender is counted as failing his test"

 

[Hyborian]

Thank you Gamesmeister

That brings another question : is it a "failed parry" or a "failed dodge"? In the latter case, the defender is forced to Give Ground, but not in the former.

I know, I've got silly questions

 

[soltakss]

That brings another question : is it a "failed parry" or a "failed dodge"? In the latter case, the defender is forced to Give Ground, but not in the former.

I know, I've got silly questions

Not silly questions at all.

I hadn't realised that it was better not to be able to parry than not to be able to dodge.

Perhaps the rules should have a blanket result of what an unopposed attack does, rather than relying on what the defender is unable to do.

 

[Halfbat]

I hadn't realised that it was better not to be able to parry than not to be able to dodge.

::shrugs:: I allow the players to state they are not doing either but default to not parry-ing. Stops the arguments.

 

[Rurik]

If a person is using two weapons do they have to declare which one they are not parrying with?

Sorry...

 

[atgxtg]

If a person is using two weapons do they have to declare which one they are not parrying with?

Sorry...

Only if they have different AP ratings. :wink:

 

[Imaro]

Thank you Gamesmeister

That brings another question : is it a "failed parry" or a "failed dodge"? In the latter case, the defender is forced to Give Ground, but not in the former.

I know, I've got silly questions

I would say, just going off common sense it would be a failed dodge. They aren't reacting to the attack so they can't impose a weapon between themselves and the attack. Of course this is just my opinion.

 

[Halfbat]

I would say, just going off common sense it would be a failed dodge. They aren't reacting to the attack so they can't impose a weapon between themselves and the attack.

Intuitively I initially thought that, too. But the Dodge results allow for too much movement for the non-Dodge to be as passive as is implied by "aren't reacting". Not only are the players unable to the a weapon inbetween themselves and the attack but they're too tied up in the rest of the combat to avoid it either.