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Warlord as a Fighter option; Assassin as a Rogue option
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<blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 6047761" data-attributes="member: 49017"><p>A Warlord in 4e with Interrupts (and in Next with Expertise Dice they use outside their turn) is yelling "Ware Left", "Duck", "Raise your Shields", and improving people's defences accordingly. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have. Cycling, when I was a lot younger and rode in road racing events, basically as a sprinter. When you're going at speeds cars don't often reach in urban traffic, in a crowd where you can put an elbow out and connect with someone else on both sides, and you want to get into the lead; well, let's say that conscious decision making takes too long. You either react on instinct and make for the gap that is going to be there in the next second, or someone else does and you get beaten.</p><p></p><p>And then one day I went for the gap that was going to be there, someone hit me from behind, I hit the tarmac at 50mph and got a dozen more people crashing over me, and ended up with a bloody head and a broken arm. Physically it all mended fine; mentally, when I got into that situation again I had to think, and that didn't work because other people were reacting without thinking, and always beat me. </p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure that a fighter who doesn't move when a sword or fist is coming towards their eyes is a fighter who won't react the same way again. I'm also sure, people I know do martial arts, that they are taught not to think but to act, and that people who have to think about what they do always lose to people who simply act without having to think about it. It might not always be possible to predict exactly <strong>how </strong>someone will react to a situation, but anyone who doesn't want to lose does react.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluenose, post: 6047761, member: 49017"] A Warlord in 4e with Interrupts (and in Next with Expertise Dice they use outside their turn) is yelling "Ware Left", "Duck", "Raise your Shields", and improving people's defences accordingly. I have. Cycling, when I was a lot younger and rode in road racing events, basically as a sprinter. When you're going at speeds cars don't often reach in urban traffic, in a crowd where you can put an elbow out and connect with someone else on both sides, and you want to get into the lead; well, let's say that conscious decision making takes too long. You either react on instinct and make for the gap that is going to be there in the next second, or someone else does and you get beaten. And then one day I went for the gap that was going to be there, someone hit me from behind, I hit the tarmac at 50mph and got a dozen more people crashing over me, and ended up with a bloody head and a broken arm. Physically it all mended fine; mentally, when I got into that situation again I had to think, and that didn't work because other people were reacting without thinking, and always beat me. I'm pretty sure that a fighter who doesn't move when a sword or fist is coming towards their eyes is a fighter who won't react the same way again. I'm also sure, people I know do martial arts, that they are taught not to think but to act, and that people who have to think about what they do always lose to people who simply act without having to think about it. It might not always be possible to predict exactly [B]how [/B]someone will react to a situation, but anyone who doesn't want to lose does react. [/QUOTE]
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