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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6681700" data-attributes="member: 92305">--  DEMORALIZE OTHER  --This is a combat option of the Intimidate skill.  Note that it requires a standard action when used.  Look at the following link, which shows the palace room battle, in Thulsa Doom's mountain, from the 1982 movie, Conan The Barbarian.  Pay attention at 0:50.<a href="https://youtu.be/Z3kBWP231hI" target="_blank">Palace Room Battle</a>We cut into the combat after it has started in this clip.  Initiative has already been thrown.  Here, though, more combatants enter the field.  Note that Conan could rush to the newcomers to engage in melee, or he could charge, or do some other maneuver.  But, what he does is take the time to swing his sword around professionally and flex his muscles.  Then he holds his arm out toward Rexor before he engages him in melee.  Conan is taking his Standard Action to use Demoralize Other.  Plus, the black woad he wears gives him a +2 bonus when attempting Demoralize Other.Whether Rexor makes his save, it cannot be told in the clip.  Does it look like Rexor is fighting with a -2 penalty modifier?Skip down to 2:37.  Here, we see Valeria use two combat maneuvers.  First, she raises her sword then casually slaps her palm with the blade, looking at her new enemies.  Like Conan, she is using a Standard Action to attempt to Demoralize her foes before she engages.  Also like Conan, Valeria benefits from the black woad, gaining a +2 on her Demoralize attempts.  From the looks of these two, I think they both failed their save and are fighting with the -2 penalty.At 2:50, Valeria rushes to engage the two foes, but instead of moving straight towards them, she uses the Use The Battlefield combat maneuver.  She uses the Tumble skill to kick off the wall, coming down on her foes hard, gaining a +2 attack bonus.This next scene is from the 2011 Conan The Barbarian movie.<a href="https://youtu.be/fUoM5CLV_ss" target="_blank">The Climax Battle At Skull Cave</a>Note at 2:38, Conan's attack is exactly equal to Zym's Parry AC.  This results in the Lock Weapons combat maneuver.  Conan definitely won the maneuver, because Zym is knocked back five feet.  You can also tell that Conan rolled very high on his Lock Weapons contest, because Zym is knocked prone--and that requires Conan to roll 10+ over what is needed to beat Zym in the dicing contest.At 3:30, Conan performs a similar move to that Valeria accomplished above.  He uses the Use The Battlefield maneuver and his Tumble skill to kick off the wall, coming down on Zym, gaining a +2 attack bonus.In this scene from the same movie:<a href="https://youtu.be/fXwVoMcZa90" target="_blank">Shairpur Outpost</a>You'll see Conan take a Standard Action to attempt to Demoralize Zym at 0:08.</blockquote>

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