Dodge Rolling

[jonathan1971]

When rolling to dodge is it a straight dex roll, including the armor modifier, or is your weapon skill added to it?  I've been adding my weapon skill.  

[mister frau blucher]

Straight up DX as modified by armor. Interesting take to add in weapon skill. I don't think anything in the rules suggest doing so, but you could certainly make a case for it in your house rules.

[jonathan1971]

Just got it stuck in my head to add weapon. Lately I've been thinking about adding a separate shield skill to add when dodging. Some games make shield and even armor a second skill to aid in dodging. The way I role adding in a modifier doesn't seem to help much in dodging. The dice hate me.

[platimus]

Nov 26, 2020 22:14:47 GMT -5 jonathan1971 said:

Lately I've been thinking about adding a separate shield skill to add when dodging. Some games make shield and even armor a second skill to aid in dodging. The way I role adding in a modifier doesn't seem to help much in dodging. The dice hate me.

This is interesting to me. I've seen this desire to create shield and armor skills very often in my TFTish travels. However, it is usually in the context of offensive maneuvers. There, it never made much sense to me. Reason: Whatever you invest in a Shield or Armor skill could instead be invested in your weapon skill and accomplish the same thing.

Here, for defensive purposes, it makes a little more sense to me. However, I think I'd prefer to skip the Shield and Armor skills and have some Parry and Shield Block rules. I've had several different ideas for these over the years and I've seen several different ideas for these from others. Here are my most recent versions:

If an attacker hits a defender, the defender may elect to Dodge, Parry, or Shield Block before the attacker rolls damage. (Rules already cover Dodge so moving along...)

Parry: If the defender passes 3/DX (weapon skill applies), damage is reduced by half his weapon skill (minimum 1). Critical failure results in dropped weapon. Critical success reduces damage by full weapon skill. Parry can only be used against Striking weapons.

Block: If defender passes 3/DX, the shield's damage reduction is doubled against that attack. Failure means the shield stops no damage. Critical failure results in dropped shield. Critical success results in triple damage reduction.

[jonathan1971]

Heroes and Other Worlds inserts block as another option for combat. Essentially it's the same as dodge except you don't move into an adjacent space and you can block missle weapons.

[platimus]

Dec 30, 2020 19:08:06 GMT -5 jonathan1971 said:

Heroes and Other Worlds inserts block as another option for combat. Essentially it's the same as dodge except you don't move into an adjacent space and you can block missle weapons.

Of this, I am aware