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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 816092" data-attributes="member: 5171">Actually, what I'd love even more is a book that gets into the nitty gritty of rules like that without having to add a bunch of new stuff.Example:How would people rule a character who wanted to run toward a parked car, jump up, slide across the hood, and kick a gun out of someone's hands?How would you rule a character being attacked with a knife that was thrust between the bars of a stairway, and the character wants to use the bars to knock the knife out of the attacker's hands?Brandon Lee in "Rapid Fire" -- doing a baseball slide across a floor to get under a table, then kicking out the legs of the table to protect him from gunfire?As a GM, I'd love to put in more opportunities for players to do creative stuff like this -- but I also want rules that don't make it cheap and dirty.  And I don't want to force people to choose from 300 feats.  Most stuff is do-able through skill checks and attack rolls.-TackyPS:My opinions:Tumble check with possible Synergy bonus from Jump.  DC15.  On success, treat it like a charge (+2 on the disarm check).Stair bars provide one-half cover.  Character makes a disarm check with a +2 bonus, and attacker with knife can't take an attack of opportunity because of the cover.  (Although the bars have only a few hit points -- they won't stop bullets.)Balance check with synergy bonus from Tumble (sliding any distance with control relies on balance), followed by a single attack -- on a success, the legs of the table are both broken, it falls down to protect him, and the table gives the character full cover from attackers at that angle.</blockquote>

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