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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6068353" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I'll give you two (as the first is "controversial")Warrior of Legend throws down the gauntlet, roars a challenge to his enemies to pursue a prideful, perhaps reckless, course  in wading into melee with him.  Soldier of the Seven Wars has seen every warriors movement on the battlefield, committed it to mental and muscle memory, and reproduced it a thousand-fold on his own.  Three bandits warily stand their guard a few steps away, thinking on the best way to take his coin purse.  Instantly, he spins, with perfect coordination and muscle memory he executes a feint of retreat.  Thinking their prize fleeing, the bandits reflexively close the few steps in pursuit.  Planting his leg, he springs back aound, the soldier greets them with death.  Fighter player fiat right there with codified mechanical resolution to  back it up.  Player decides when this thematic, tactically beneficial  cool thing happens.  Sounds nifty eh?  [SBLOCK] [/SBLOCK][/h]The hopelessly outnumbered Dwarven Infantry defends the pass (think Spartans and Thermopylae) to their mountain kingdom.  The horde of orcs, ogres and giants presses in on them but they will not yield.  The phalanx holds, each man arm-to-arm with his brother, an impenetrable wall.  An enraged giant hulks through the mass, bringing his bone club down with otherworldly force...at an angle that the dwarves cannot hope to defend.  But Bob McDwarferson has seen his fair share of giants on the battlefield and his well-honed, battle-worn reflexes react as the blow is about to fell his brother-in-arms next to him.  He intercepts it at the last moment; the blow barely gets through, crippled in strength to the point of ineffectiveness, as the giant cries out in pain from the shockwave traveling from his club up through his arm.  The phalanx holds.Fighter player fiat right there with codified mechanical resolution to back it up.  Player decides when this thematic, tactically beneficial cool thing happens.  Sounds nifty eh? [SBLOCK] [/SBLOCK][/h]</blockquote>

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