[Recruiting] CoC D20 Dunwich Return to the Forgotten Village

[DallasPA]

Ohhhhh, that makes combat really complex, LOL!!!

Okay, I will leave it up to you guys whether you want it or not!!!!

Cast your vote here, or was it assumed thats how we were playing?

Either way I will read up on it tonight, and be ready to resolve the combat either way. Let me know if you want it or not?


Dallas

 

[bruin]

I'll vote yes again for AoO, as they make things a lot more interesting from a tactical perspective.

The only downside is that in a PbP game it's difficult to keep track of occupied and threatened spaces; players will have to make provisional statements sometimes ("I'll do action X if it doesn't provoke AoO, otherwise I'll take action Y") and so on, since it's difficult to visualize where everyone is.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'd normally say yes...but since this is a PBP, I'd say a definate no to AoO. They can get far too complicated in PBPs without a detailed map.

 

[Maerdwyn]

OOC -
Note that Johann and Jasper can't take an AoO w/ their guns - only w. melee weapons (I could use it as a club). Using a missile weapon provokes an AoO - which is why Johann backed up 5 feet.

Per the bottom of page 88, firing a gun - unlike using other missile weapons - doesn't incur an AoO.

I'd assumed we were playing with AoO, but would lean towards voting against them at this point unless we are also going to use tactical maps to handle the combats - too hard to keep track of otherwise.

If we are going to use maps, or in a face to face game, I think AoO are a good addition to the game, but only if.

That said, given this earlier post:

Any chance you could specify variant rules you are using? It would be nice for all of us to have a unified base to work from. Someone building a character around AoO will be none to pleased if there are no AoO.

It might be nice to allow some character changes if we eventually decide not to use AoO.

 

[Snipehunt]

I'd just as soon not have AoO - too confusing for PbP

 

[DallasPA]

I also think that AoO for this type of game is rather difficult, so as it seems most are leaning towards not having AoO. I think we should proceed without allowing AoO. I will allow for changes to characters that were initially built to takle adavantage of this option!!!!!

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

sounds good to me.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Anyone else got the feeling that the forgotten village is going to stay forgotten?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Anyone else got the feeling that the forgotten village is going to stay forgotten?

Yep. Great job, starting a gunfight in a library.

 

[Snipehunt]

Perhaps that was a bad call - but then, all the libraries I go to have metal detectors. If they didn't want gunfights in libraries, they should post a sign! . . . And if Johann lives to next round, he gets to say "Who brings a knife to a gun fight?"