RE: Anything I say..

[Foo <fooboy@laf.cioe.com>]

You run up to someone...tackle them.  Since you are both on the ground,
use your 'free action' to stand up (1/5 move) and multi-attack/cast a
spell on them.  

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*Joel Gunderson                             fooboy@laf.cioe.com*
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Steve Ames wrote:

> > Not really.  Since movement rules now include the 1/5 move and attack
> > thing, I can understand where Jevan is coming from.  
> 
> Can you explain the relevance of 1/5 move and attack to tackle? You
> just lost me.
> 
> 
> > Most of last weeked I
> > was getting tackled by guys who would use their free round to stand and
> > whup on me with a great sword.  I like using it to tackle people and whack
> > them with a maroglave 2 or 3 times.  It's just a heinous skill since the
> > default is so easy.  
> >
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> > *Joel Gunderson                             fooboy@laf.cioe.com*
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> > On Wed, 12 May 1999, Daniel Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > > Jevan,
> > > 	Is it possibly that you are confusing time frames here? A free action 
> > > occurs when the players are not in melee.... In a time frame that is much 
> > > longer than a combat round. If what you meant was a round that involves a 
> > > non-countered action that is the player's alone, it would be more analogous 
> > > to a "surprise round" or in this case an "extra round" awarded to the 
> > > player. Restricting the type of action within this might also be very hard 
> > > to adjudicate or justify.
> > > 
> > > 	Just trying to keep the terminology unconfused.
> > > 
> > > 					dan
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Jevan Furmanski [SMTP:furmansj@ecn.purdue.edu]
> > > Sent:	Wednesday, May 12, 1999 6:18 PM
> > > To:	Lyle H Janney
> > > Cc:	gmlist@cioe.com
> > > Subject:	RE: Anything I say..
> > > 
> > > It is amazing to me that most of the banter on the list is not about
> > > gaming but diction.  Some people need to be a little more constructive in
> > > the sense that this list was created for.
> > > 
> > > On that note, I had a rather vicious game the other day, and concluded
> > > that tackle skill should provide a free action, not round, to the
> > > aggressor.  This would be an unskilled action such as a punch or a grapple
> > > or a move out of melee.  Since tackle has only 2 xtra dice to agility,
> > > most good warriors can make the check to run into combat and tackle an
> > > opponent, and still get a round as if they were in melee for the entire
> > > round.  Either that or it should be non defaultable, with a high base
> > > cost.
> > > 
> > > Jevan
> > > 
> > > 
> >
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