How (many ways) to describe "feint"?

[IceBear]

Yeah, if you look at it that way Bluff works fine the way it is. I just don't look at it that way

Maybe they misnamed the subskill when it should have been Dirty Tricks instead of Feint.

IceBear

 

[TiQuinn]

R.A. Salvatore was always great in describing the feints and maneuvers during battles in his Drizzt series. If you're up for it, check out The Legacy and Starless Night and look at how he describes the feints in the battles between Drizzt and Artemis and Drizzt and Dantrag. Some of them are very clever, and they are all varied. In particular, he makes sure his characters are aware of certain bluffs so that when attempted a second time, the opponent usually has a counter.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Maybe make Sense Motive a class skill for fighters. Many good bluffers are actually fighter/rogues.

 

[Antikinesis]

... That's why they only get one attack instead of a full-attack action [metagame- Bluff in combat is a full-round action].

Picking nits... I'm pretty sure feint is a standard, not full-round, action. You can move during a turn in which you feinted, and I believe a hasted combatant can feint and attack in the same round.

Please correct me if I'm mistaken. (Like anyone ever needs to type that on these boards. Heh. )

-AK

 

[Cloudgatherer]

Ever see any of the "Back to the Future" movies?

"Look, there's the Goodyear blimp!"

"Hey, what's that!?!?"

Anyway, the main character (Marty, played by Michael J Fox) does that through the trilogy. Basically his signature feint move....