RE: [DL] More about Dodge - was: pop-up attacks

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

I've wrestled with Dodge too.  When last we played (I'm not GM-ing for our
group now), I ruled that the Dodge is good for the action you Dodged.  After
that, the shooter re-aims.  Dodge did last for a second or so -- you dive
behind cover, and you're done.  At the very least, the target dives to the
side, winding up on the ground but hopefully lead-free.  You can Dodge more
if you've got more cards...  And we did decide that one Dodge roll was good
for all the attacks on that card -- if four bandits shoot at you on the same
card, and you decide to jump behind the water barrel and roll a 15 for your
Dodge, all four bandits will most likely miss the new TN.  But then they
know you're behind the barrel, and can try to shoot over/around/thru it on
their next card -- the barrel provides cover, but no Dodge value.

That's just how we do it, nothing officially special here.

Jeff Y.
Marshal for the Dynamite Gang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of William Ogden
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:02 AM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [DL] pop-up attacks
>
>
>
> > >Do the other marshals allow "pop-up" attacks (or use >them)?
> >------------------------------
> >No, but this is something I have wrestled with for a while.  How
> do you do
> >it?  I may adopt your practices, if it is good.  Right now, I
> assume that
> >if they dodged on thier action, they get that dodge TN until they take
> >another action - on that action they may (if they like) continue
> to dodge.
> >That is mainly cause a combat round is 5 sec.  I mean really -
> who dodges
> >for less than half a second?
> >
> >Jeff
> >
> I thought of that as well, dodge lasts until next action, but
> that might get
> weird.  I mean, if you have a King and 2 queens, and you are
> attacked on an
> Ace and dodge (witht the King), it doestn' last very long.  But
> then if you
> hold your last queen and dodge on Jack, it lasts until the next round.