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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeoneer" data-source="post: 6258297" data-attributes="member: 91777">Normal d20 combat has very few 'dimensions': HP, defenses, attack bonuses. If you want to model something specific like the parries and thrusts of a sword fight then you need a new dimension. Maybe more than one. Position is the most obvious one to add. Here's a real simple system to model a back-and-forth duel, off the top of my head: - Two combatants start in the middle of the field, which is abstracted as a simple 2D line.- For this system the combatants should be using roughly equivalent melee weapons.- Three moves in either direction is a wall. Being up against a wall is bad.- Attacks are rolled as normal. On a successful attack, in addition to doing damage, a combatant advances one move and their opponent retreats one move.- Combatants may choose to forego an attack to 'dodge'. - When a combatant chooses to dodge and their opponent chooses to attack, they do not move back one if they are hit. If their opponent misses, they swap places with them. - If both combatants choose to dodge, nobody moves and both have their HP reduced by a small increment.- When a combatant is pushed back against a wall, combat is over and they are at the mercy of their opponent. They lose.This is a pretty boring system, but I think we could elaborate on it pretty easily. Perhaps we could add more actions, like 'feint' and 'parry'. They might have rock-paper-scissors style interactions. Momentum is another dimension we might want our duel to model. But I think the important thing here is that we've added a new 'win' condition beyond 'drop your opponent to 0 HP'. In turn that introduces some decisions for the players to make.I'm sure some other folks could add to this or improve it.</blockquote>

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