Um. And this is my major problem (well, one of them) with the AP system. It applies to all the abilities that can kill. If you can't get an Overwhelmingly Huge Success with your non-combat ability in the very first part of the engagement then the guy with the axe (or the sorcerous blast spell or the arrow...) wins. In you go into an Extended Contest with your Dazzle with the Beauty of Flowers ability and he goes in with his Kill by Agonizing Means ability you are not equally armed. And by making all APs equal the system not only violates 'realism' (whatever that means) but common sense.
And I like games that, if not 'realistic', are at least possessed of a passing acquaintance with common sense.
-- Michael Cule
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