Re: [HoE] Misc. Questions

[Mike j Scofield <reinstag@juno.com>]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:48:59 PDT "Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>
writes:
> Had a couple come up last night.  Curious to know what folks' takes 
> are on 
> it.
> 
> 1) Force Field - Syker.  Apologies if I asked this before, 
> but...what is up 
> with this?  Subsequent rules on Force Fields are pretty clear 
> (Junker and 
> Cyborg SBs).  You've got to have weapons "synchronized" to get out 
> through 
> the field, or otherwise the field acts as armor for the person being 
> hit.
> 
> But for Sykers...?  Can they synchronize their personal 
> self-generated force 
> fields somehow, through sheer act of will?  But if they can't...how 
> much 
> good is this Syker ability?  It presumably inhibits any physical 
> attack they 
> make.  Including stuff, I guess, like Slow Burn and Brain Blast.  
> Much less 
> using guns and swords stuff.
> 
> But if all they can do is sit in their force field and move around 
> and use 
> non-physical attacks (like, say, Chain Brain), it doesn't seem very 
> worthwhile.
> 
Forcefield seems like a power that was meant to be used to save your
butt, not stand toe-to-toe with some beast trying to eat your face off.
The syker in our posse has used it to draw fire from the rest of our
group or to run across open ground with a sniper taking pot shots at us.
All of this added to the ability to use non-physical attacks seems like
its plenty useful.

> 2) Sweep (from the Templar sword-fighting tactics section).  I'm a 
> little 
> unclear on this.  Can it be used with two weapons?  Not that 
> familiar on the 
> swordfighting side of things, but A) the picture shows the guy using 
> a 
> single weapon two-handed; B) Since a lot of it involves using your 
> strength 
> to literally pull the sword out and move it on to the next person 
> you might 
> need a sword; C) The Figure Eight maneuver has separate entries for 
> one-weapon and two-weapon but Sweep doesn't; and D) It takes even 
> longer to 
> roll a single action in combat when it consists of, say, a Sweep on 
> six 
> people if you're using two weapons.
> 
I do have a little experience in swordplay so these are my slightly
educated views. A sweep attack should only be used with one weapon and I
would go even farther to say you need both hands on the weapon to pull
off this movie-style manuever. 

> Also, the Sweep rules are a little vague on one thing, and again, 
> since I'm 
> not an expert on swordfighting (although the rules seem to assume I 
> am... :( 
> ), another question we had come up was...what if you miss an attack 
> in the 
> sequence?  If you miss attacking Sweep target #2 of 6, do you just 
> hop skip 
> and jump on to 3, 4, 5, and 6, or does that end the Sweep right 
> there?
> 
If you miss an attack in the sequence, you simply move on to the next
target. Since you didn't make contact, there is nothing to stop your
swing from continueing on to the next brainer in line.

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