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The Dresden Files => DFRPG => Topic started by: admiralducksauce on June 23, 2011, 05:31:57 PM
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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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I'd say no.
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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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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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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.