RE: [Fwd: [HoE] Question for the Day (6/8)]

[Steve Crow <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

> >> > Just to clarify.  Your Dodge skill is used against missile
> >attacks.  When
> >> > you vamoose in combat, you make the appropriate fightin roll..
> >> >
> >I am pretty sure you have the option of dodging hand to hand attacks
> >too.
>
>Not to get into semantics, but....
>Technically, you vamoose in hand to hand.  You make a fightin roll (not a
>Dodge roll) to get away.  This wasn't explained very well in the original
>Deadlands rules, nut the Tales of Terror update *AND* the HoE rulebook very
>clear state this (sorry no HoE pg reference here at work.
>

Well, I knew that - that's why I talked about Dodge (with a capital "d") 
about missile attacks but "dodging" (i.e., kind of generic ducking and 
weaving using your Fightin'/Brawlin' or whatever) when I mentioned HTH.

But that raises another question.  Okay, someone moves up to me and swings 
with a sword.  I'm a lousy hand-to-hand fighter.  So I toss a card up my 
sleeve, make the Quickness roll, and run away.

Should my opponent simply not be able to hit me ("Duh, where'd he go?")?  Or 
should he get a parting shot at me?  And if he should, shouldn't I get to 
use a Dodge roll?

Most combat systems I've seen assume that either A) You interrupt and move 
so fast he doesn't get _any_ chance to hit you, or B) He gets a free shot at 
you, with backstab-type modifiers to boot.

The truth seems to lie somewhere in-between.  But if the HoE system covers 
it, I must have missed it.


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