Death Blow questions

[kreynolds]

Right now I'm in Arizona and our air-conditioner is on the fritz, so I'm not feeling very talkative.

Oh man! That stinks! Try to stay cool tonight, dude.

 

[hong]

I apologize for being short, but I've already explained everything in my previous two posts.

Right now I'm in Arizona and our air-conditioner is on the fritz, so I'm not feeling very talkative. If you haven't figured it out by tomorrow, I'll post from work with a simpler explanation.

You are way too polite for your own good, y'know.

Everyone: how much longer do you reckon Caliban has before he burns out completely from answering stupid questions, and turns into a bitter, twisted rules oracle?

I give him six months.


Hong "Skip reached this point five years ago" Ooi

 

[AGGEMAM]

I give him six months.

Hong "Skip reached this point five years ago" Ooi

Didn't you say that six months ago?

And Skip was never a rules oracle! (He has made and continues to make too many mistakes).

 

[kreynolds]

Everyone: how much longer do you reckon Caliban has before he burns out completely from answering stupid questions, and turns into a bitter, twisted rules oracle?

Baby, he's already there.

Hong "Skip reached this point five years ago" Ooi

Yep, I agree that Skip already reached the boiling point. Ask a stupid question, get an answer that makes you feel stupid.

 

[Magus_Jerel]

Rigamortus - I am sorry, but you are going to find out real fast that the "action" system is not internally consistent with itself. When you try to apply "reason" to it - you are going to get problems.

 

[Artoomis]

I'll try and keep this simple.

If Death Blow is a CdG made as a Standard Action then:

You can do one as a Partial Action.

You can move and do one. (If you can't move, that would be a Full-Round Action).

You can Ready an action to do one (that might be useful sometimes, biut I'm not sure when).

You can NOT Ready a CdG without Death Blow because you cannot Ready a FRA.

You can NOT do this with the free attack from Expert Tactition - a CdG is not the same as a melee attack.

 

[Artoomis]

Rigamortus - I am sorry, but you are going to find out real fast that the "action" system is not internally consistent with itself. When you try to apply "reason" to it - you are going to get problems.

Yes, you can apply "reason," but it's not very hard to start with incorrect assumptions, which, of course, throws everything following that right out the window.

 

[dcollins]

When you try to apply "reason" to it - you are going to get problems.

From the screenplay for "Frankenstein" (TriStar 1993):

HENRY: You know, you're quite mad.
VICTOR: I am not mad.
HENRY: As a march hare.
VICTOR: Are you having me on?
HENRY: Of course I am. It pays to humor the insane...
VICTOR: Do you really think I'm mad?
HENRY: Come now. Magnus? Agrippa? Next thing you know, you'll be teaching toadstools to speak.

 

[Magus_Jerel]

Ah - but you have already stated (or was it someone else...)

that

taking your weapon, aiming and smacking the helpless foe in such a fashion as to try and kill him instantly is not "an action of the category attack"

it is something else? Last I checked... taking a weapon and swinging it at somebody alone was an "attack action" ... and I am swinging with the intent to kill? right?

 

[Magus_Jerel]

And yes - when the Heliocentric theory of the universe was first proposed... Gallileo was called "mad"... and "heretical".

But alas - dcollins - these days we don't burn people at the stake for commiting "thoughtcrime"...