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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SavageCole" data-source="post: 8076346" data-attributes="member: 6750284">[USER=32164]@JohnSnow[/USER] - Palladium is a great system to showcase for the simulationist nightmare,  and now I see that you’re talking about a dodge and a parry in the same turn vs. an attack.  I totally agree with you there and appreciate your taking the care in the example you shared.  For points of game abstraction, I wouldn’t think of beating a blade as an actual parry but more of an attack.  Likewise, simple footwork involved when parrying and preparing a counter attack wouldn’t  strike me as a dodge.  But I would suggest the way Mythras, BRP, and Warhammer rule on dodge and parry isn’t in the Palladium family by a long shot.</blockquote>