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<blockquote data-quote="olshanski" data-source="post: 4074228" data-attributes="member: 7441">I think it is like &quot;issuing a challenge&quot; where the opponent then has a stronger incentive to attack one person instead of another.&nbsp; An opponent who is &quot;marked&quot; is not necessarily watched by the person who marked him, rather he has been issued a challenge by the person who marked him and now he has a strong mechanical incentive to attack only the person who marked him, instead of one of the weaker and easier to kill allies of the person who marked him.This appears sometimes in movies.... when armies clash, the two opposing generals find each other in the crowd and go head to head.It also happens when the protagonist issues some sort of challenge that forces the bad guy to forget what he is doing and attack the protagonist (or sometimes vice versa).&nbsp; You could see this in just about every action movie made in the 80s... especially if it was a cop that was supposed to arrest the bad guy... the bad guy would provoke a fight an the cop would have to kill the bad guy instead of arrest him.This also happens a lot in video games, where the opponents have some dumb AI that forces opponents to attack the closest enemy... so you send your tank 1 square ahead to get the focus of all of the enemies, then your low-AC/High-damage people move in and clean up.This is clearly NOT AT ALL what you'd find in real life, and it is not meant to simulate real life.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="olshanski, post: 4074228, member: 7441"] I think it is like "issuing a challenge" where the opponent then has a stronger incentive to attack one person instead of another. An opponent who is "marked" is not necessarily watched by the person who marked him, rather he has been issued a challenge by the person who marked him and now he has a strong mechanical incentive to attack only the person who marked him, instead of one of the weaker and easier to kill allies of the person who marked him. This appears sometimes in movies.... when armies clash, the two opposing generals find each other in the crowd and go head to head. It also happens when the protagonist issues some sort of challenge that forces the bad guy to forget what he is doing and attack the protagonist (or sometimes vice versa). You could see this in just about every action movie made in the 80s... especially if it was a cop that was supposed to arrest the bad guy... the bad guy would provoke a fight an the cop would have to kill the bad guy instead of arrest him. This also happens a lot in video games, where the opponents have some dumb AI that forces opponents to attack the closest enemy... so you send your tank 1 square ahead to get the focus of all of the enemies, then your low-AC/High-damage people move in and clean up. This is clearly NOT AT ALL what you'd find in real life, and it is not meant to simulate real life. [/QUOTE]

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