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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Switchblade" data-source="post: 4625216" data-attributes="member: 56246">I get the sudden urge to shout FOIP for some reason. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> If you don't know don't ask, it's not worth the bother.  Ah yes, the LT. Locational body hits, locational armour hits, attacks that may or may not ignore armour body and pattern and a weird mix of immunities against a plethora of damage and spell calls meant an absolute headache. There were a couple of times a healer stood over me asking how injured I was just as I had ran the numbers and worked out I was unhurt. My own fault for getting lammied in such a odd manner. Good times.  Combat in maelstrom is so much easier. Though this could be because I was an armour plated, shield carrying, axe wielding Myrmadon religious fanatic <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />with no fear of death and near everyone else were frock coat wearing dandies and traders who wore rapiers and flintlocks as fashion statements with no skill in using them. That may have helped just a little. You don't have to count your hits when no one is hitting back and all the gunshots went into mouthy wasp. I mostly play non combatants now but I'd still rather play a non com in a combat system than in a non combat system. I've tried the whole vampire thing and something is lacking. Though fortunately it was a game where we went the entire duration and I only saw skill checks come out twice, both due to NPC attack. There is a certain lack of excitement. Deals going wrong and double crosses just feel a little more exciting when the first you know about it will be a blow to the back rather than "I'm stabbing you" There is something in a contact larp you just don't get in table top. Like when you are in a copse of trees after dark trying to sell a lethal poison worth a fortune, everyone is jumpy then some noob starts absentmindedly fiddling with his sword and everyone suddenly puts their hand to a weapon. Or the long walk from two campfires when you know in the shadows there ARE monsters out there, and unlike tabletop they are not adjusted to be a challenge to you and survival is unlikely if you run into them. Or the big fight going wrong and finding only 2 of 15 of you are upright, the monsters are at full power and are between you and escape. Sure these things can happen in tabletop but you just don't get the fear or adrenaline. Or the joy of fighting in driving rain and numbing cold where you can barely hold your sword, you are sliding in the mud, can't see straight and have no idea what is going on in with the fog of war (and fog of fog). LARPing well done is awesome.</blockquote>

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