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Alternate Feints vs Setup Attacks

Over on Dungeon Fantastic, +Peter V. Dell’Orto has a rules thought about doing the Feint maneuver a bit differently. Go read it. I’ll wait. His overall thought boils down to that the Feint is an enabling roll, that all you have to do is win the quick contest. High skill just makes winning that much more sure,…

Sir Robin ran away
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Sir Robin ran away

A quick note, and perhaps a question. Last game three PCs charged into combat (well, snuck into combat) and went head to head at 1st level into the face of 4:1 odds. The results were predictable. One commenter on Twitter noted “they should have run away.” Now, there are two ways to take this. One…

Heretical Playtest: Group 3 gets dogpiled by orcs
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Heretical Playtest: Group 3 gets dogpiled by orcs

I’m tired. so this will be a quick summary. I was joined by +Erik Tenkar , +Tim Shorts , and +Rob Conley in the first session for “Group 3,” one of the playtest campaigns I’m running for the Heretical RPG. The characters were two rangers with chain shirts and longbows, both with one or two short swords, plus a dwarven cleric…