If you are using attacks such as "decapitate foe", why not treat it as
an unrelated action within the Extended Contest?
As a feat it would be opposed by the target's highest magic affinity,
nicht wahr?
I suppose there would be some finessing: I don't really know how
"Ground Flyer" would oppose "Decapitate Foe," except as an indication
of general magical strength
So the Humakt would interrupt the process of AP attrition in the hopes
of getting a single knock-down blow. It is awfully powerful though.
> Hello Roderick,
>
> Mittwoch, 22:22:40, Roderick wrote:
>
>
> Roderick> "Fight Undead" (the real name of the feat)
>
> didn't have my books with me - so apologize my bad referring
>
> Roderick> doesn't work as a Mystic Strike
> Roderick> (and I don't want to open *that* can of worms, either!)
making all undead
> Roderick> fall apart at one touch of the Humakti's sword; it simply
lowers the
> Roderick> Resistance that the Zombie has to the Humakti. The
skeletons/zombies/etc
> Roderick> will still *attack* with 2w or whatever their skill is, so
they may be able
> Roderick> to swarm even a Humakti party (those losing many undead in
the mean time,
> Roderick> but hey, there are always more corpses...) Even members of
the Indrodar
> Roderick> Greydog subcult, with all their Destroy Undead magics,
aren't invulnerable
> Roderick> to zombies, they just have an easier time killing them
(just stack the
> Roderick> appropriate feat as an augment to "Kill Undead"...).
>
> point taken.
> that's the way it's in the rulebook [the example with the Humakti
> fighting a skeleton [?] and switches from a better CC to "fight
> undead" IIRC.
> but how could you handle "all-or-nothing" feats this way.
> there may not be too many, but from memory Hu's "Decapitate Foe"
always
> gave me headaches. my players were not very satisfied when using
this
> as standard augmentation, and if I'd decide to use it as "killing
feat" vs 14 it'd be
> far to powerful [cf. Humakt's secret]...
>
> [luckily I have no humakti in my new campaign]
>
> --
>
> Stefan
> Mittwoch, 23:18:29
>
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