Re: parrying or Multi Skills

["Steven E. Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>]

> > As much as someone else thought that would be a bad idea (Kevin I
> > think)... Yeah. If you wanna get defensive then you have to be less
> > _offensive_.
> >
> I don't think that PARRYING should be another sub-skill of combat
> weapon skills because it doesn't increase the cost of the skill.
> Back in the day, warriors used to have to buy Multi-Attack, Quickdraw,
> Split Target, etc. as separate skills.  This way, if a warrior wanted
> to learn everything there is about a weapon, he had to spend a
> combined total of about 900 EPs per rank (all skills at rank 1).  I
> liked this much better than buying one cheap-ass skill (base 300).

True... from a costing standpoint it would be a something for nothing
proposition. Your example above isn't quite correct (if memory serves)
because in all actuality no one really every bought parts of the skill
and I think quick draw was only base 100. (everyone just bought
multi-attack and quick draw. Quick draw never really needed to be bought
above 12 (and realistically never above 9) so Warriors weren't paying
much more back in the day.

I'm not sure how to do it otherwise without increasing the complexity
though.
I shall ponder...

-Steve