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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4067591" data-attributes="member: 158">More than that -- in Book of Nine Swords, they explain it that when you use a maneuver, you wind up slightly out of position to try it again, or you've had to concentrate and focus your energies in doing it, and it takes a short while to get your focus back, to move back into position, or to get back in a position where it will work again. Add that to the "enemies saw you do it" maneuver, and it offers enough explanations why it won't work. After all, if you kidney punch someone in a fight, they likely won't be in position to just stand there and let you keep doing it over and over in the same place -- they're moving, ducking, weaving, etc. and that "blade twist" you just happened to be in the right place for at that time. Maybe the opportunity will come up again in a minute, but not right now.Ultimately, ALL game mechanics have to be taken on "suspension of disbelief", just like most all movies or other entertainments. Why can't you hire a lawyer in monopoly to fight your arrest and going to jail? Why does rolling dice three times automatically spring you whether you succeed or not? Why couldn't Gandalf just call some of his eagle buddies and have Frodo drop the ring into Mount doom that same afternoon? Same idea -- you have to build justifications for why the "fun" route needs to be taken.</blockquote>