RE: [DL] Touched Attacks

["Scott Cawson" <scottcawson@hotmail.com>]

At risk of sounding defensive, let me interject.  As the Marshall for this 
guys posse, perhaps I can clarify.

Erick is looking for a way, other then dodge or fightin:Brawling to avoid 
being hit, so as the "Special" damage administered by the resident bad guy, 
won't come into play.

As an example, there is a certain Martial Arts power that doesn't do damage, 
but instead reduces specific trait rolls (the name escapes me)if an opposed 
vigor roll unsuccesful.  The player would like to avoid the effect by buying 
them off, instead of rolling his brawling skill.  I have ruled that the way 
to beat the attack is by using his brawling or dodge as the case sees fit.  
The posse (Erick) is having a mini-revolt.

Spoilers:








And by the way the creature with the "near infinite" numbers in brawling is 
a revamped Timber Terror from Back East: The North, using the posted stat of 
4D12 brawling.

Players, can't shoot them, but damned if I can't give then terrible results 
off the Madness chart.

Scott


> >Aye true Sean, or is it Mike?  Problem is I never thought to put many
>levels
> >into my initial Dodge.<die type 4>  And also it seems everything we fight
> >seems to have 3-5d12 in wrestling, or brawling, so the numbers are high
>that
> >I would need to roll dodge against.
>
>
>Wait a second.  Are we just missing a big DUH here?  Dodge is for ranged
>attacks.  Fightin' is for avoiding melee attacks.  You should be rolling
>your fighin' instead of dodge to get away from him.
>
>Oh wait.  Maybe your Marshal has stated that since it is a "touch attack"
>you have to use dodge because fightin' involves "parrying."  In my opinion
>he's wrong.  Otherwise you wouldn't use it against anyone that is armed (or
>would do so at a penalty).  If he has instituted such a ruling, just have
>your character start carrying a Bowie knife.  That way according to his 
>rule
>if you "parry" the guy's touch attack, you get to roll damage with your
>knife because if he can affect you through a parry, you can obviously also
>affect him.
>
>
>Clint Black
>
>"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the
>world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
>know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over
>I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
>smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
>victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."
>
>
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