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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaezakura" data-source="post: 4090837" data-attributes="member: 52741">I don't think people realize exactly how hard it is to trip someone. It's not "if you hit their leg they fall on their ass". I'm 4'11" and weigh less than 100 lbs, and I bet 95% or more of the people in this topic couldn't trip me if I let you try all day long. In the off chance you actually hit my legs, you'd have to hit them in a very specific way to make me lose my balance. And that's with me not actively fighting back against you. If I was, you may be lucky enough to find the opportunity once.And guess what? It doesn't matter if you succeed or not. After you try it once, you will never get another chance. I've seen you try it. I know what you trying it looks like. If you try it a second time, I will stop you before you even really start. Assuming this is a small, relatively manageable battle, with only 4-6 combatants per side, if you try tripping someone else, chances are I will see you do it. And, having seen you do it, I will never give you the chance to do it to me.That is the logic behind tripping being a per-encounter power limited only to those with specialized training. It doesn't matter how mighty the Wizard is... he's not going to be able to reliably trip even a common Kobold unless he's specifically trained to trip opponents. He can try to whack one in the leg with his staff, but 99% of the time he's not going to connect solidly with the back of its knee or a pressure point to force the kobold down. He may be mighty enough by that point to break the Kobold's leg thanks to his magically charged staff, but even that's far more likely than managing to trip it.</blockquote>

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