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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 6377612" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Playtest FeedbackOpen discussion on playtest issues follows (postures at end):3&nbsp; action economy: very different from standard action+movement action,&nbsp; because you don't have to&nbsp; wait for your turn to act - you can respond&nbsp; at any time.&nbsp; Also, you don't have time to defend against any and all&nbsp; attacks - you&nbsp; must use actions to defend, or hope that your armor will&nbsp; handle the&nbsp; rest.Delay: waiting until after another character acts can be&nbsp; achieved by&nbsp; simply reacting to that character's actions (concurrently),&nbsp; or delaying.&nbsp;&nbsp; As the rules stand, there is an unnecessary cost of one&nbsp; action in&nbsp; order to change one's initiative.&nbsp; The effective price is&nbsp; either A)&nbsp; taking a lower initiative and losing some priority in action&nbsp; resolution&nbsp; order, or B) taking a higher initiative by waiting until the&nbsp; next&nbsp; round, effectively giving up your chance for a combined action in&nbsp; the&nbsp; current round.Spellcasting: the cast spell contest serves&nbsp; double-duty.&nbsp; It determines&nbsp; if your spellcasting effort was strong&nbsp; enough to make magic happen&nbsp; (minimum 11), and it sets the level that&nbsp; defenders of the spell must&nbsp; beat to successfully defend against the&nbsp; spell.&nbsp; The cast spell skill&nbsp; generally requires two more rolls than&nbsp; other skills - one for&nbsp; determining casting damage (spell points used)&nbsp; and one for preventing&nbsp; that damage (casting endurance/experience).&nbsp;&nbsp; Taking half is important&nbsp; in speeding up this process.Posture:&nbsp; Modos uses one-dimensional positioning to simplify and&nbsp; accelerate&nbsp; combat.&nbsp; All combatants have a posture which affects the&nbsp; percentage of&nbsp; damage that they inflict on opponents: offensive or&nbsp; defensive.&nbsp; Each&nbsp; posture is an abstract position: they're not a &quot;where&quot;&nbsp; on the&nbsp; battlefield, but a &quot;what your character's doing&quot; on the&nbsp; battlefield.&nbsp;&nbsp; More discussion can be found on <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&amp;downloadid=1087" target="_blank">pages 35 and 36 of the rulebook</a>.The&nbsp; issue at hand: PCs are not allowed to offensively engage defensive&nbsp;&nbsp; opponents, who have an offensive comrade, without making a flanking&nbsp;&nbsp; maneuver - which usually requires movement and sneaking.&nbsp; Further,&nbsp;&nbsp; flanking creates two more classes of postures: flanking offensive, and&nbsp;&nbsp; flanking defensive.&nbsp;&nbsp; This creates a situation of, &quot;while you're&nbsp;&nbsp; engaging the swordsman, your three friends are not allowed to directly&nbsp;&nbsp; engage the enemy archer (without flanking), because he's in defensive&nbsp;&nbsp; posture.&quot;Solution 1: remove postures in favor of numbered ranks.&nbsp;&nbsp; Each character&nbsp; has a rank, and opponents can occupy the same rank.&nbsp;&nbsp; Moving through a&nbsp; rank that contains an enemy requires a successful&nbsp; movement contest.&nbsp; &nbsp; Damage percentages are determined by -how many-&nbsp; ranks lie between you&nbsp; and your opponent, not what posture each character&nbsp; uses.Solution 2: each character occupies a column in addition&nbsp; to a&nbsp; posture/rank.&nbsp; If your column is not adjacent to an offensive&nbsp; enemy's&nbsp; column, you can engage defensive enemies without issue.Solution&nbsp; 3: ease the flanking rule restriction of requiring sneakiness.&nbsp;&nbsp; To&nbsp; engage the aforementioned archer (and get around the swordsman), a&nbsp;&nbsp; defensive PC must use one movement action to &quot;leave combat,&quot; and&nbsp; another&nbsp; movement to re-engage the archer.&nbsp; This places the PC in&nbsp; &quot;Flanking&nbsp; Offensive&quot; posture, and requires extra actions to simulate&nbsp; his efforts&nbsp; to engage a defensive opponent while avoiding an offensive&nbsp; opponent.&nbsp;&nbsp; Those extra actions also grant the archer a chance (or two)&nbsp; to flee.&nbsp; It&nbsp; seems that a Flanking Defensive posture is unnecessary,&nbsp; because it&nbsp; would effectively act as a normal defensive posture.Solution 4: (your idea here!)Any and all ideas welcome!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 6377612, member: 6685730"] [b]Playtest Feedback[/b] Open discussion on playtest issues follows (postures at end): 3 action economy: very different from standard action+movement action, because you don't have to wait for your turn to act - you can respond at any time. Also, you don't have time to defend against any and all attacks - you must use actions to defend, or hope that your armor will handle the rest. Delay: waiting until after another character acts can be achieved by simply reacting to that character's actions (concurrently), or delaying. As the rules stand, there is an unnecessary cost of one action in order to change one's initiative. The effective price is either A) taking a lower initiative and losing some priority in action resolution order, or B) taking a higher initiative by waiting until the next round, effectively giving up your chance for a combined action in the current round. Spellcasting: the cast spell contest serves double-duty. It determines if your spellcasting effort was strong enough to make magic happen (minimum 11), and it sets the level that defenders of the spell must beat to successfully defend against the spell. The cast spell skill generally requires two more rolls than other skills - one for determining casting damage (spell points used) and one for preventing that damage (casting endurance/experience). Taking half is important in speeding up this process. Posture: Modos uses one-dimensional positioning to simplify and accelerate combat. All combatants have a posture which affects the percentage of damage that they inflict on opponents: offensive or defensive. Each posture is an abstract position: they're not a "where" on the battlefield, but a "what your character's doing" on the battlefield. More discussion can be found on [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=1087"]pages 35 and 36 of the rulebook[/URL]. The issue at hand: PCs are not allowed to offensively engage defensive opponents, who have an offensive comrade, without making a flanking maneuver - which usually requires movement and sneaking. Further, flanking creates two more classes of postures: flanking offensive, and flanking defensive. This creates a situation of, "while you're engaging the swordsman, your three friends are not allowed to directly engage the enemy archer (without flanking), because he's in defensive posture." Solution 1: remove postures in favor of numbered ranks. Each character has a rank, and opponents can occupy the same rank. Moving through a rank that contains an enemy requires a successful movement contest. Damage percentages are determined by -how many- ranks lie between you and your opponent, not what posture each character uses. Solution 2: each character occupies a column in addition to a posture/rank. If your column is not adjacent to an offensive enemy's column, you can engage defensive enemies without issue. Solution 3: ease the flanking rule restriction of requiring sneakiness. To engage the aforementioned archer (and get around the swordsman), a defensive PC must use one movement action to "leave combat," and another movement to re-engage the archer. This places the PC in "Flanking Offensive" posture, and requires extra actions to simulate his efforts to engage a defensive opponent while avoiding an offensive opponent. Those extra actions also grant the archer a chance (or two) to flee. It seems that a Flanking Defensive posture is unnecessary, because it would effectively act as a normal defensive posture. Solution 4: (your idea here!) Any and all ideas welcome! [/QUOTE]

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