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Jan 13, 2012 -- 6:33PM, Rpetiger wrote:

#10

There are still full round actions, of a sort. This however is exclusively to the monk class (Full dicipline), which chooses one power, and makes use of it both for movement and for standard actions. A monk can't choose to use the move aspect of one power, and use another power for attack

No, wrong.  A Monk can totally use any other non-Full Discipline power to attack (or move), and he acn switch Full Disciplines with an action point.  Regardless, this is NOTHING LIKE a "full-round action" in the D20 sense.

Jan 13, 2012 -- 6:33PM, Rpetiger wrote:

#55

A fighters Combat Challenge CAN interrupt a shift from an enemy, if that fighter also has Combat Superiority.

No, wrong.  Combat Challenge will interrupt a shift, true, but you're referring to Combat Superiority and the ability to *stop* a move - and Combat Superiority can never, ever, ever apply to a Combat Challenge attack. Combat Challenge provides IMMEDIATE attacks.  Combat Superiority only applies to OPPORTUNITY attacks.

If you somehow got an OA when the enemy shifted, you can stop his shift with Combat Superiority, but that's rare and hard to do.  Combat Challenge attacks are really easy to get when an enemy shifts, but they're IAs, not OAs, and Combat Superiority doesn't apply.

Jan 13, 2012 -- 6:33PM, Rpetiger wrote:

You can't stand up if your prone and immobilized. (True/False)

False.  Nothing about "Immobilised" says you can't stand up, so you can.

Apr 10, 2012 -- 11:05AM, GormTintreach wrote:

Jan 23, 2012 -- 10:54AM, Sr.Chimo wrote:

#3 - (PHB 59) Powers with a hit that also have an effect still get the benefit of their effect even if the power misses.

Q: What happens if you hit a natural 1? is natural 1 a regular miss? is it considered a "special (critical) miss"?
(if considered a critical miss, does it still trigger the effect)

We had a huge discussion about it the other day with my group.

If you hit a natural 1, it is up to the DM to decide if it means anything beyond a normal miss. But yeah, if a power has "Hit: Blah blah blah; Effect: Blah Blah" then it still has the effect even on a miss. 

Actually, natural 1 is just "automatic miss", and it is NOT "up to the DM to decide" if it means anything more.

DMs can add house rules for natural 1s, but that's houseruling.  By the rules, natural 1 means nothing more or less than "miss automatically".  Saying "it's up to the DM" implies that there's a DM's option choice in the existing rules, and there isn't, any more than there's a "a natural 20 automatically kills a PC" DM option.

Apr 11, 2012 -- 10:10AM, Snotagnome2 wrote:

It used to be in the rules if you rolled a 1 'something bad happens up the DM to determine' but, obviously, because players kept whining about it a natural 1 is now only a miss.

Actually, they realised that it was a bad rule that wasn't interesting and mostly wasn't fun, so they took it out.

It's like how spellcasters don't automatically win any more, and how level drain doesn't exist any more, and why "save or die" doesn't exist any more:  They were bad rules, that weren't fun.

Apr 11, 2012 -- 10:10AM, Snotagnome2 wrote:

If you're a good GM I'd recommend putting 'fumbles' back in the game.

Whereas if you're good at math, you'll realise that they happen way too often and disproportionately to PCs to be a good idea.

Apr 11, 2012 -- 10:10AM, Snotagnome2 wrote:

Savage Worlds plays that mechanic how it was meant to be played.

Notably,
1)  a roll in Savage Worlds coming up snake eyes only happens *at most* one in 24 times, and that's for an incompetent character.  A competent character gets that result once in 48 times, an excellent character once in 72 - and every single Savage Worlds character has access to bennies to let them say "hmm, that sucks, it didn't happen" and roll again. 
As compared to, say, D&D, where a natural 1 happens 5% of the time and most characters can't avoid it.  Those who can are almost always spending a Daily resource to do it.
2)  the effects of a fumble in Savage Worlds are specifically small and deliberately nonserious.

Apr 11, 2012 -- 10:10AM, Snotagnome2 wrote:

I've found a trend where anything which is a 'disadvantage' to the player has been subtly worked out as the editions go by.

"It turns out life and death on every single flat non-rerollable die roll, not getting to play, needing to rewrite your character multiple times a session, and failing embarassingly a huge percentage of the time, are not fun.  So we don't do those any more."

Apr 11, 2012 -- 10:10AM, Snotagnome2 wrote:

In the original versions of the game player's had no access to the magic items in the DMG, fumbles were disastrous, you were lucky if your wizard had 3 hp and 1 good spell, and you couldn't pick your ability scores.

Yes.  Shaving accidents often resulted in decapitation, the deadliest monster in the monster manual was a housecat, and Gary Gygax directly told people that they shouldn't bother naming their character until it was at least 9th level because there was no point in making that level of investment before then.  Oh, and getting to the "Gary thinks I should pick a name now" level required, according to him, a year of weekly play. 

These are, in fact, examples of why it was a bad system.

Apr 11, 2012 -- 10:10AM, Snotagnome2 wrote:

It never hurts to pull out a copy of your old 1e books and play the game by the rules back then. It's like jumping into an icy lake.

More like playing a slot machine:  no skill, no control, no strategy, no way to affect the odds.