dual weilding, a sword and a gun |
dual weilding, a sword and a gun |
Feb 9 2007, 05:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 777 Joined: 22-November 06 Member No.: 9,934 |
so a player wants to dual wield...no problem, he's read the rules.
problem is he wants to wield a ranged and a melee weapon at the same time Complex action melee attack - Monowhip Simple action ranged attack - Ares Predator so what do you think happens? make one melee attack (half lowest pool), and two ranged attacks? (half lowest pool -2 per additional target?) would you add reflex recorders after the dice pool split? or before? |
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Feb 9 2007, 06:00 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,086 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 364 |
I wasn't aware that you could combine a complex action that uses one skill and two simple actions that use a seperate skill to get one complex action.
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Feb 9 2007, 06:06 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 870 Joined: 2-October 06 From: Athens Ga Member No.: 9,517 |
personally I made melee attacks and unarmed attacks into standard actions. Grappling can turn into a complex action. This made more sense then the RAW to me and it allowed for more martial arts action. I got rid of the split dice pool stuff because it was too much when combined.
Then you let them make an attack for each action without allowing the spliting and it works out fine. |
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Feb 9 2007, 06:16 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 906 Joined: 16-October 06 Member No.: 9,630 |
Here is how I'd imagine it work. IF and only if its possilbe
Say you roll 10 dice for monowhips normally and 8 dice for pistols. First you'd use the lower of the two skills as your base per dual dual wielding rules. So pistols You'd get four dice for two shots with the pistol (recoil and additional targets may apply) and one melee attack. Reflex Recorders I believe are added afterwards. Personally I think it be to much of a head ace My elf wields a Monowhip and a machine pistol. He uses the machine pistol for guys he can't reach and the monowhip for anyone close by. He never uses both during the same Initiative Pass. |
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Feb 9 2007, 06:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 1-February 07 Member No.: 10,861 |
In that case, I think he's going to have to settle for using them one at a time.
Now if he picked a simple action melee weapon, I think he could combine them into a complex action, one for one. But as it is, a monowhip is a complicated thing to control, and I really can't imagine using one while shooting a gun simultaneously. |
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Feb 9 2007, 06:43 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 433 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Iraq Member No.: 1,789 |
All melee weapon attacks are complex actions. I would probably make it where they can defend with the melee weapon if they already used a simple action to fire their firearm. If they use the melee weapon first then they just have to wait for the next turn to fire their firearm. Just my opinion.
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Feb 9 2007, 06:58 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 870 Joined: 2-October 06 From: Athens Ga Member No.: 9,517 |
Well the way I look at it is:
Can I punch twice in three seconds? Yes. The rules say I can't. Well the rules are wrong. Simple reality check. |
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Feb 9 2007, 07:10 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 433 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Iraq Member No.: 1,789 |
Yeah, you can but can you also hit 2 times in 3 seconds when your target is ducking, weaving and punching at you? It makes sense that you can do the attack but the rules aren't just punch, hit, punch, hit. It's abstract. The 1 attack per 3 seconds just represents actually connecting with one of those hits.
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Feb 9 2007, 08:29 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 906 Joined: 16-October 06 Member No.: 9,630 |
The game makes it out to be there are multiple hits involved Its not one swing in that 3 second period. (assuming they have only on IP) Its several, |
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Feb 9 2007, 09:05 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 870 Joined: 2-October 06 From: Athens Ga Member No.: 9,517 |
that logic works the other way and could be said of shooting too. It's up to you but it seems like it is cool to be able to kick a gun out of someone's hand and then stab them. Or you could disarm and shoot someone with their own gun. I think that it makes the game more cinematic and fun. So far it hasn't broken the game either.
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Feb 9 2007, 03:42 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
A gun fight is a lot shorter than a knife fight or a fist fight, most of the time. But you can still do the things you listed, you simply split your dice pool. It's not optimal, agreed, but it's possible under the current rules. That being said, I'm not sure I agree with the complex action for melee either, I just haven't been willing to test it. ;) For the OP, I would say that combining the two is a suboptimal choice, but you could make a single attack with each, at half of your lowest dice pool. That's the simpliest method of resolving it, but not the most optimal. |
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Feb 9 2007, 09:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 941 Joined: 25-January 07 Member No.: 10,765 |
So, now I have a question, and I'm too lazy to do the research (no, really, my book is MILES away... could take twenty minutes to get there...)
Is there any rule against splitting dicepools for complex actions? So: I do a melee thing.. complex action, no big. But I dual weild, say... Katana!... I split dice pool for my blade attack and roll two attacks, one for each hand! If that's not illegal (and if it is, then SR4 has some 'splainin' to do....)... then extrapolate it out. Sure, split your dice pool (the smaller pool, natch) and now your half a complex action becomes shot a fool in the face instead of chopsocky number two. Only one shot, because it's a split complex action, not a split simple action. You go with the 'higher level' action, just as you go with the 'smaller dice pool' gets split, unless I hallucinated that too... Which makes me wonder what the official ruling is on intitiating a complex action with your second simple action of an IP. One of those "I just spent this simple action getting into place to go Kung Fu on his ass, but now I have to stand there staring at him like a dope with a simple action left, cause Its too complex to start swinging???" situations. |
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Feb 9 2007, 09:36 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 906 Joined: 16-October 06 Member No.: 9,630 |
There is no point in dual wielding two katanas if you have one single katana you can split the dice pool to attack multiple times.
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Feb 9 2007, 09:38 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
True. Hey, maybe that's why no one ever uses two katanas in real life. :-) |
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Feb 9 2007, 09:39 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 941 Joined: 25-January 07 Member No.: 10,765 |
You are missing two things, Jack...
One is Style. The second thing is all the ... and ! I used. It's not katana, its .....Katana!!.... Keep your geek cred alive, nothing is cooler than a dikoted, tank killing katana that TWO!!! :grinbig: |
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Feb 9 2007, 09:40 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
sometimes, in order to have good style, you have to sacrifice substance.
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Feb 9 2007, 10:37 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 1-February 07 Member No.: 10,861 |
I know of at least one martial arts sensei who specializes in two-katana fighting.I've attempted a bit of practice with my pair of Boken, and while I can see it being possible with years of practice, I'm nowhere near being able to use it in combat against a skilled opponent. |
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Feb 9 2007, 11:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 941 Joined: 25-January 07 Member No.: 10,765 |
Of course, in real history, Musashi wasn't a two Katana freak, he used, and advocated, the small sword (wakizashi) as the off hand weapon, and never used his two sword style against a single opponent. The purpose, to the venerable master of swordplay, was to use the two weapons to herd lesser opponents into your killing zone. It was all about battlespace management back before the buzzword concept was invented. ;)
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Feb 9 2007, 11:33 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
I remember a story where Musashi in fact used two weapons against a single opponent, namely Shishido Baiken, who wielded a Kusarigama (don't know the english word for it, in german it's a 'Kugel-Ketten-Sichel', verbatim 'ball-chain-sickle').
Of course, the story might not exactly be accurate :D. On the other hand, it is said this encounter gave him ideas for the two weapon fighting style *shrug*. In SR, using a melee weapon and a gun simultaneously can get complicated, e.g. normally there is this penalty for using a gun while in melee. So, after reading through the earlier ideas, I would probably split the lowest dicepool, and allow only one shot, but without the melee modifier. Of course, this would mean people wielding only one gun would be able to shoot without penalty in melee too, but since that would require a complex action instead of a simple one, I think that would be OK. |
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Feb 10 2007, 12:33 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 941 Joined: 25-January 07 Member No.: 10,765 |
Well, the absolute 'never' might be pushing it. I was basing my comments off of what I recall of the man, and his own words on the subject, which may or may not have included the word 'never'.
Of course, I don't recall any historicity to samurai duels with Kusarigama but it does make for good storytelling. About the only thing I think that has any historical weight is the fact he killed a man with a boat oar. I think to prove a point more than anything else... |
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Feb 10 2007, 03:57 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 870 Joined: 2-October 06 From: Athens Ga Member No.: 9,517 |
Instead of splitting the dice pools, why not require a high skill level in order to duel wield? That would fit with the observations.
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Feb 10 2007, 07:51 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 777 Joined: 22-November 06 Member No.: 9,934 |
the rules precedence for splitting the dicepools is already there. you need high dicepools in order to be effective at splitting |
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Feb 10 2007, 01:14 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,266 Joined: 3-June 06 From: UK Member No.: 8,638 |
The way I read the rules a character isn't able to split complex actions up into bits. The rule about splitting melee combat dice pools is in order to attack multiple opponents with the same complex action.
Slashing someone with a sword or a monofilament whip precludes you from shooting them in the same action phase. Someone jacked up on stimulants or 'ware might be able to kick the gun out of a guards hand and then shoot him by virtue of using the first pass to disarm him in melee, and the second pass to pop a couple of caps into him. Of course you're entitled to do whatever you like in your game, but remember the -3 dice penalty for using ranged weapons in melee will deplete his dice pool still further. |
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