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<blockquote data-quote="Amal Shukup" data-source="post: 1405849" data-attributes="member: 6291">Of course not. Hampered, maybe, but absolutely able to defend oneself. I think the rules model this quite well, actually. I do think, however that such defense implies that the defender's attention is sufficiently divided to allow a Flanking bonus.What I was suggesting earlier was that a CDG should be allowed if a defender chooses to completely ignore an attacker (to the degree that their efforts no longer contributed to a flanking bonus). I see 'completely ignoring' as equivalent to 'rendering oneself helpless'.And I don't think it does the game service to allow a character to have it both ways: &quot;I can still defend myself, but they don't get to Flank&quot;. Whatever...I also think that the olympian detachment required for such suicidal behavior is largely hypothetical (&quot;Nope! that wildly swinging axe doesn't distract me at all...&quot;). And I was suggesting that an attempt to use such an idiotic metagaming tactic in MY game would invite my lethal disapproval A'Mal</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Amal Shukup, post: 1405849, member: 6291"] Of course not. Hampered, maybe, but absolutely able to defend oneself. I think the rules model this quite well, actually. I do think, however that such defense implies that the defender's attention is sufficiently divided to allow a Flanking bonus. What I was suggesting earlier was that a CDG [B]should[/B] be allowed if a defender chooses to [B]completely ignore an attacker[/B] (to the degree that their efforts no longer contributed to a flanking bonus). I see 'completely ignoring' as equivalent to 'rendering oneself helpless'. And I don't think it does the game service to allow a character to have it both ways: "I can still defend myself, but they don't get to Flank". Whatever... I also think that the olympian detachment required for such suicidal behavior is largely hypothetical ("Nope! that wildly swinging axe doesn't distract me at all..."). And I was suggesting that an attempt to use such an idiotic metagaming tactic in MY game would invite my lethal disapproval A'Mal [/QUOTE]

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