<html><body><div>I have come to the conclusion, based on the use of limits on defensive rolls in other games like Buffy and BESM, that limits on defensive moves like parries and dodges are a fun-killer and a GM pain if you are running a dozen NPCs and have to keep track of who has parried what. I figure that having to make lots of rolls is its own penalty. Eventually, even Mr. 200% misses one. And if you are 200%, you should have the ability to avoid lots of damage.<BR></div>
<div>At the moment, my SPQR rules allow for two actions and as many reactions as are called for. The Two Actions actually bogs things down, though, so I may revise to a single action plus movement.</div>
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<div>Steve Perrin<BR></div>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid" webmail="1">-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [Rq-rules] Opportunity Attacks.<BR>From: "Bruce Mason" <mason.bruce@gmail.com><BR>Date: Wed, January 30, 2008 10:39 am<BR>To: "Discussion of RuneQuest rules." <rq-rules@crashbox.com><BR><BR>I always ran it as a replacement and had to persuade people that SRs were abstract so if someone ran past them on SR3 then they could still attack on SR3 unless they were doing something else (e.g. combining movement and attacks themselves). It is actually one of the weaker elements of RQ3. These days I would be much more tempted, if I were still running RQ3, to say that each player has one action and one reaction or no actions and two reactions per melee round. Reactions are parries and dodges, actions are everything else. An "opportunity" attack would, then, replace one of your reactions and occurs on the SR it occurs on. It's not that much different to how RQ3 actually works.<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 29/01/2008, <B class=gmail_sendername>David Smart</B> <<a href="mailto:jurrubin@gmail.com" target=_blank _onClick="Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=jurrubin%40gmail.com');; return false;">jurrubin@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">My understanding is it replaces one's normal attack. That is, when it's the player's turn to act, they defer to act in order to look for an opportunity later in the round to get an immediate attack.<BR><SPAN class=sg><BR>David</SPAN>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Jan 29, 2008 2:04 PM, <<A onclick="Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=tiggermb%40verizon.net');; return false;" href="mailto:tiggermb@verizon.net" target=_blank _onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tiggermb@verizon.net</A>> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Hello again!<BR><BR>As you might have guessed from my previous post, I think I have convinced my normal RPG group to try a series of Runequest adventures based on the "Non-Human Centered World" idea. I am going to try the sheetless adventure ideal discussed before, so that they don't feel overwhelmed by the mechanics. As I prepare the characters and the Adventure, I am looking over the RQ3 rules, and I am coming up with the odd question...<BR><BR>Here is todays!..<BR><BR>My copy of RQ3 states that players can take a type of "Opportunity Fire" melee, when someone passes close to them.<BR><BR>Do GM's usually give this in PLACE of a normal attack or in ADDITION to a normal attack?<BR><BR>I don't know how often this will come up in combat, but it happens in the D and D campaign that is currently being run, so I want to be prepared..<BR><BR>Thanks in Advance!<BR><BR>MB<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>RQ-Rules mailing list<BR><A onclick="Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=RQ-Rules%40crashbox.com');; return false;" href="mailto:RQ-Rules@crashbox.com" target=_blank _onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">RQ-Rules@crashbox.com</A><BR><A href="http://crashbox.com/mailman/listinfo/rq-rules" target=_blank _onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://crashbox.com/mailman/listinfo/rq-rules</a><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></SPAN></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>RQ-Rules mailing list<BR><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:RQ-Rules@crashbox.com" target=_blank _onClick="Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=RQ-Rules%40crashbox.com');; return false;">RQ-Rules@crashbox.com</A><BR><A href="http://crashbox.com/mailman/listinfo/rq-rules" target=_blank _onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://crashbox.com/mailman/listinfo/rq-rules</a><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>
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