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Offline admiralducksauce

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Supplemental Movement Question
« on: June 23, 2011, 05:31:57 PM »
Hey all,

I have a quick rules question.  I've got John and Jane, and they are in melee combat in the same zone.  For John's action, he moves 1 zone away and that's it (for purposes of our example, anyway - maybe he does a navel-gazing maneuver or something).

On Jane's action, she moves 1 into John's zone and attacks.  Jane's attack is at -1 for supplemental movement.

Is John's defense roll also at -1?  To put it another way, are defense rolls modified by movement?

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Re: Supplemental Movement Question
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2011, 05:38:25 PM »
I'd say no.
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Re: Supplemental Movement Question
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2011, 05:52:54 PM »
Generally, no. Supplemental actions only penalize the active action for the turn.  For example, if someone took a supplemental action to draw their sword and then attacked, you wouldn't penalize their defense, would you?

The only counter example here is a supplemental action followed by full defense. In that case, the full defense provides +2 minus the 1 for supplemental action, netting you only a +1 on your defenses for the round.

At least, that's the way I and my groups have always read the rules.

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Re: Supplemental Movement Question
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2011, 05:59:57 PM »
I thought you couldn't do a full defense at all if you made a supplemental action.

Also, I'm in agreement that the -1 should only effect your primary action. 

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Re: Supplemental Movement Question
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2011, 06:26:44 PM »
OK, cool.  Thanks guys, it makes sense hearing it from another but for the life of me my brain wasn't reasoning it out anymore.

FWIW, I'd consider Full Defense a "primary action" as well and count a supplemental action penalty against it.