D&D 4E 4e Combat - Environment the Most Deadly?

[xechnao]

I don't recall that you could push people in Warhammer Quest...never played the other one. I was just joking around, btw.

You can in Blood Bowl though

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I heard about one playtest where if someone was going to be slid/pushed into inimical terrain they got a save to stop themselves. Whether that was a case of "50% chance of avoiding it" or "make a Dex vs DC20 check" or something else, I don't know.

I would expect that they would have something in the rules to cater for last ditch avoidance of that kind of situation. Well, I hope so anyhow

I'd expect this to be the case as well; in 3E you get a DC 15 reflex save to catch yourself if you fall off of something, IIRC. I'd be surprised if there isn't some sort of equivalent "last ditch" sort of thing. All we're seeing, for the most part are the PC's and monsters - and of those only the parts that are not the same across the board (like the healing surges for NPC's) so we probably will have to wait a while to see just what that last piece of the puzzle is.