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TheeGravedigger:
We've got a priest character who was asking about the combination of Full Defense and Riposte, basically if it would be possible to combine them, and if you did, how it would effect the bonuses.

Full Defense is +2 to avoid attacks, Riposte allows you to sacrifice your next action to turn a successful defense into an automatic attack.

The way he was wanting it to play, he'd declare a Full Defense, he'd get attacked, and he'd pick one of the attacks to turn into a riposte, and for the rest of the round he'd be exposed.

By the Rule of Cool, it makes sense to allow it, especially since the character was to have an aspect that prevented him from attacking normally. We are still working on the details, whether he'll be allowed to attack in circumstances other than defending, or not.

Any thoughts?

Deadmanwalking:
Actually, by the rules it's perfectly legal to do that as is. He loses his next attack from using Riposte, not necessarily this round's. Now, I'd make him not get the bonuses of Full Defense the next round (since that was the attack that got used), but I don't see a need for a new stunt or special rules.

He could just sit there and keep riposting every round thereafter, but he'd only get the Full Defense bonus the first turn (or any other turn following one where he didn't Riposte).

And the Aspect would just get him a Fate Point every time it was a disadvantage, like any other Aspect.

iago:
Yeah, that stunt might have been a little, hm, under-described in terms of the limits I imagined placed on it. This same question came up on RPG.net; the patched stunt description reads:


--- Quote ---Riposte: On a successful defense with Weapons, you may sacrifice your next action to turn that defense into an immediate and automatically successful attack.  Your attacker must be within range of your weapon, and if you’re mounting a full defense (page 199) you do not get the benefit of the +2 bonus when your defense roll converts to an attack roll.
--- End quote ---

That said, I'd be fine with an alternative implementation that suggested if you had the +2 Full Defense bonus, you could use it on the attack, but it'd leave you with a temporary aspect of "exposed" on yourself (available for an opponent to tag). :)

Korwin:
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iago:
Dude, I don't even understand your hypothetical scenarios, so I'm thinking something's not getting communicated clearly here.

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