Re: Extended Combat in the New Rules, or Oscar Wilde vs. Great Troll Redux

From: Gianfranco Geroldi <giangero_at_...>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:12:42 -0000

Dear Blerg2 ;-)

I perfectly remember that old thread (back in the times of Steve Lieb founding of this same list): Oscar Wilde vs the Troll. I can now add that, in the years between then and now, at least once I used the extended contest (multiple extended contest matter of factly) in a similar situation: one hero was engaging the enemy (an Alkothi brute) and the other was screaming at the brute false orders that confused the Alkothi and made him easier to be defeated in melee. I resolved it with APs rather then unrelated actions. It was my choice as narrator to do so. Someone could do it another way, I suppose.
Napoleon's marshals did something similar on the bridge of Aspern- Essling, IIRC.
In my game, the result was perfectly reasonable.

Ciao,
Gian

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> OK, so how does Oscar Wilde use his Witty Speech to defeat a Great
Troll under the currently-proposed new rules? Compare and contrast to the Dara Happan with double or triple mastery in Flower Arranging against the same troll.
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> And can (someone's - forget who) baby still augment its Cry up to
the point of defeating a determined attacker? BTW, the geese in the Roman Forum once did this to infiltrating Celts, back in the Early Roman times, so this is as NOT absurd as the previous paragraph's combats, chosen from the Good Old Days of rules discussion before the First Edition was published.. For any who were not around then, or who put those "discussions" out of their memory.
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