[Torg] MA Maneuver

[Tommy Tanaka]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:

> Man, I am so far behind...
>
>
> On 1/27/2010 3:49 PM, Sam Frazier II wrote:
>
>> Major Disipline:
>>
>> Sweeping Star/Dart/etc : Training : clipping the grass : In one
>> deftlly smooth motion of the MA arm(s) the MA can throw as many Minute
>> Throwing Weapons (MTW: stars, darts, etc ... equivalent weapon to fit
>> between the fingers of the MA) as they have adds in MA. If used on one
>> target, the damage bonus is the MoO for the number of weapons thrown.
>>
>
> I used to cover this kind of attack with Single Fire as Multi rather than a
> MoO, but I was treating it as a regular combat action rather thaqn a martial
> arts maneuver. For a major discipline I suppose getting an action bonus as
> well as a damage bonus isn't out of line.
>
> It seems like I might have done something similar to KJ's suggestion when I
made up a Gun Fu martial arts style. I'll have to dig that up and see.


>
>  If used on more than one target, the MA can choose how many MTWs go to
>> each target, obviously the MA can't attempt to hit more targets than he
>> has adds. The only Multi-Action penalties exist for multiple targets,
>> the throwing of all the MTWs is considered one attack.
>>
>
> That seems a bit contradictory to me - there's multi-action penalties but
> it's considered one attack/action? From what you say later it does count as
> a multi-action so what does the bit about it only being one attack mean
> exactly?
>
>
I'm not Sam, but I think that might be what he was wondering about with
regard to eliminating the Multi-Action penalty. What I *think* he's saying
is that if MTW is used to attack multiple targets, the normal One-On-Many
penalty applies *to that attack*, but for the purpose of performing multiple
actions in one round, it only counts as a single action. So if the MA wanted
to do an Active Dodge and throw shuriken at 4 targets, he could take a -2 to
Dodge and -4 to the MTW attack, and then add on the -2/-4/-6 penalty for
attacking four targets. Assuming he had enough adds in MA to allow at least
2 shuriken to be thrown at each target, he'd then also get the Many-on-One
bonus for that. Mathematically, I don't know if that really helps him much,
at least in this example. He'd probably be better off taking the penalty for
5 actions, and throw his full MA adds worth of shuriken at each target.

Ahah! That's right, I used a slightly modified Hail-of-Blows discipline. I
don't have Nippon Tech with me, so I can't check the mechanics right now.
Might also want to look at adapting Lightning Fist. And Single Fire as Multi
with thrown weapons works well for me, particularly when combined with
Lightning Fist/Hail-of-Blows.

-Tommy "Great for bad-ass Elven archers, too" Tanaka


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