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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7315696"><p>Thanks; that helps a ton.</p><p></p><p>The one thing I don't like (and overall I love this) is that you have to choose between engaging and being ready to Intercept. On a grid, you can often...but not always...have both: you get to engage <em>and</em> stand in a 'hot square'. One way you do that, of course, is by standing in the hot square and letting the goblin come to you.</p><p></p><p>But with these rules even if the goblin comes to you, by engaging with you, you are now engaged and therefore you still can't intercept. It seems like the only way to protect the wizard, in case somebody tries to engage with him, is by not only not engaging but also avoiding letting anybody else engage with you. Is that correct?</p><p></p><p>EDIT:</p><p></p><p>Thinking through this, I now see that for the first round it's very different. If you are either lower in the initiative order, or choose not to engage, then for the first round you can intercept anybody who goes for the Wizard. I've been thinking about later rounds in the fight.</p><p></p><p>There is a tactical advantage to choosing the engagements, so maybe if you forego choosing your engagements you get some intercept ability. For example:</p><p> - If you have not engaged an enemy, you may choose to Protect an ally. For the rest of the fight, until you take the Engage action or Protect a different ally, you are able to Intercept attempts to engage this ally.</p><p></p><p>Or something like that. It represents positioning yourself, rather than moving toward the enemy, and it means the enemies get to choose the engagements (possibly avoiding you if you're a badass).</p><p></p><p>Admittedly it clutters up the elegant symmetry you've created.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 7315696"] Thanks; that helps a ton. The one thing I don't like (and overall I love this) is that you have to choose between engaging and being ready to Intercept. On a grid, you can often...but not always...have both: you get to engage [I]and[/I] stand in a 'hot square'. One way you do that, of course, is by standing in the hot square and letting the goblin come to you. But with these rules even if the goblin comes to you, by engaging with you, you are now engaged and therefore you still can't intercept. It seems like the only way to protect the wizard, in case somebody tries to engage with him, is by not only not engaging but also avoiding letting anybody else engage with you. Is that correct? EDIT: Thinking through this, I now see that for the first round it's very different. If you are either lower in the initiative order, or choose not to engage, then for the first round you can intercept anybody who goes for the Wizard. I've been thinking about later rounds in the fight. There is a tactical advantage to choosing the engagements, so maybe if you forego choosing your engagements you get some intercept ability. For example: - If you have not engaged an enemy, you may choose to Protect an ally. For the rest of the fight, until you take the Engage action or Protect a different ally, you are able to Intercept attempts to engage this ally. Or something like that. It represents positioning yourself, rather than moving toward the enemy, and it means the enemies get to choose the engagements (possibly avoiding you if you're a badass). Admittedly it clutters up the elegant symmetry you've created. [/QUOTE]
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