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<blockquote data-quote="Angusto" data-source="post: 6885089" data-attributes="member: 6679018"><p>Hi Morrus, my group is experiencing something similar to the original questions about defences earlier in this thread. In short, a regular comment during our games is that there is never any point in trading die for damage or effects because the monsters defences are usually equal to their grade. The group is being encouraged to use positional advantages such as flanking, crossfire, etc but that usually only gives them a couple dice to trade with. Also, on the flip side of that, it is almost impossible to trade dice for monsters since the players almost always have defence pools equal to the pool limit. Granted, this may just be because the members of my group tend to buy ranks in defensive skills but even still.</p><p></p><p>All this said, we are having a major combat encounter next week so that will be the real test of what's up now that we have all the latest rules. I'll let you know how it goes but any input you can give me before then would be much appreciated. Thanks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angusto, post: 6885089, member: 6679018"] Hi Morrus, my group is experiencing something similar to the original questions about defences earlier in this thread. In short, a regular comment during our games is that there is never any point in trading die for damage or effects because the monsters defences are usually equal to their grade. The group is being encouraged to use positional advantages such as flanking, crossfire, etc but that usually only gives them a couple dice to trade with. Also, on the flip side of that, it is almost impossible to trade dice for monsters since the players almost always have defence pools equal to the pool limit. Granted, this may just be because the members of my group tend to buy ranks in defensive skills but even still. All this said, we are having a major combat encounter next week so that will be the real test of what's up now that we have all the latest rules. I'll let you know how it goes but any input you can give me before then would be much appreciated. Thanks :) [/QUOTE]
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