The use of blocks and such has always bothered me.  I don't want a lot of accounting and such so I did some house ruling and tweaks over the years.

So how about his, I pretty much already do this, but here it is written out.

To block, one needs some sort of fighting skill ( martial arts is the catchall, but akiddo, boxing, what ever you want to call it)  and you get a flat -2 to be hit when acceptable.   Like when fighting HTH you can block.  This will cost you 2 power and 5 movement points.    This block is in addtion to other bonuses you may have.

Parrying: Is like blocking but with a HTH weapon; Swords, staff, etc...  You need some sort of weapon skill.  You don't get the flat -2, you get the +to hit  of the weapon as a - to be hit.  So a +3 to hit sword will give you a parry of -3 to be hit.

Sheilds:  No skill is needed, and the first block cost no power, addtional ones do however as you need to move your shield.

You just tell me the numbers you get, and take off your power and movement.   It should be obvious when you can and can not parry or block.

I will tell you that you can't block.  But things like bullets or lazers, only a shield will help you.

You that works.   You also spend two power and 5 movement.

Why not? I can understand if you are surprised, but if you are in a battle you expected why can you parry as a minus to be hit?

Lies.

Yes, I am sure it will be a bigger deal with non supers.

But all the players need to keep track of their movment points.

I was keeping track but to be honest at 71 I was never in jeopardy of coming close to it.

To be honest I forgot to take it off for rolling. What was that value again? But I did take off for the blocks.

ok that one turn where I took hits I rolled with like a total of about 30 damage so still not even close to the 71.

So I don't feel bad now

In a related note, how do you do blocking via evasion and concealment, i.e. imposing a - to hit on my opponent because I used that 2 PR and 5" move to dodge specifically behind cover behind cover that was within the 5"?

Curious for your interpretation, John. You seem like a reasonable GM.

If we are going to use the Vigilantes this Friday we should get a chance to track it properly.

Not sure if I missed it. How much movement for Evasion and is it just the one time per round or for each attack defended?

AlabasterKnight wrote on Nov 14^th, 2012 at 4:17pm:


I'm not John, but here's how I kind of read this.  When a character uses evasion, it just means they are jumping ducking dodging and weaving.  I don't let a character reposition themselves using evasion.  So just the normal evasion modifier to hit.

But, if a player can get some blocking concealment, then they get the benefit of the concealment.  An attacker can make a special attack to hit the target, or they can attack the target.

If they just attack:
* first does the attack roll hit?
** If not, then miss.
** If yes, does the attack do enough damage to penetrate the concealment.
*** If not, then miss.
*** If yes, then apply any penetrating damage to the target.  (Penetrating damage is however much damage exceeds the structural rating of the cover.)

John,

Are the totals from the characters agility bonus, level, will etc added to the Parry?

I took it as the weapon bonus, skill bonus with the weapon as well as the abilites above were part of the parry minus

OK. At least I was right on Friday

Imaginos wrote on Apr 8^th, 2013 at 2:00pm:


Two points:
1: Duh...
2: WHY THE HECK DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT YEARS AGO... (nicely done Imaginos!).

I have just been recording the damage done to the object the "knocked-back" character hits. Never thought of apply KB to that object. I mean, trash cans and stuff, sure - but not cars or concrete barriers or anything. But I'm not gonna track each brick in a wall... that might go a bit too far.


As for "Cover and Concealment" - just a weird thought... If the target ts 1/2 obscured, multiply his distance by 2 for the total effective range modifier to hit. If he/she is 3/4 obscured multiply by 4, if 1/4 obscured, multiply by 1.5. (bastardized from Size Change (B) rules - an obscured target is effectively "smaller").

Eh... maybe that's just nuts... I dunno...

I only started considering cover because one of my recent players hid behind a car.  I was like "What?  Where is that in the superhero code?"

And by no means would I count individual bricks in a wall, but if the wall takes structural damage, I'd have (SR x inches of wall) fall on the character as weight damage.

Imaginos wrote on Apr 8^th, 2013 at 2:00pm:


I'm imagining this person and it's hilarious. "Haha, Doctor Dread's power gloves will have no effect on me behind this car." BOOM!!! *squish noise as the car flattens him against that building over there*

They don't, normally.  But all second (and third and fourth, etc.) actions in a turn cost PR=2.