Evaluate as Feint
+Jason Packer posted a worthy GURPS 301 post about one of our favorite topics, the Evaluate maneuver.
+Jason Packer posted a worthy GURPS 301 post about one of our favorite topics, the Evaluate maneuver.
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I consider the way the skill dependency works to be a bad thing for feint, and thus also a bad thing for evaluate — I would prefer setup maneuvers to be most useful for inferior skill.
I actually like Evaluate as Wait: you Wait for a specific trigger event by your chosen target (typically
'he moves within reach'), and if it does not occur by your next turn, you get a +1.
I definitely think that does a nice job of making Wait even more valuable, but it still leaves Evaluate as used when you're already engaged out in the cold compared to attacking at every opportunity.
I agree that it needs to be beneficial to the middling fighter, but could be unnecessary or even counterproductive (in terms of net damage dealing) to the experienced fighter.
My experience is that the way you do 'pause to evaluate' while in combat is that you do *not* do it while engaged — you disengage first, and rather than re-engaging, you pause.
Seems valid. How do you model that, and as an effective choice with mechanical benefit, in GURPS?
I put the idea up on my blog a few months ago, just throwing it out there. Maybe I should have explored it more.
Evaluate as a Per-based Feint? I think the idea has merit.