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Hobbes
Sep 12, 2000
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Babylon Astronaut posted:

Has anyone played Palladium FRPG 2e? I've read the book countless times, and it's full of good art and inspiration but I don't see how it's functional RAW. I just can't make heads or tales as to what a combat round would play like.

Combat in my PFRPG campaign boiled down to the dwarf realizing there was a little combat maneuver in the rules called 'Simultaneous Attack.' This allows a character, in lieu of attempting a parry/dodge/other defensive action, to give up their next action in the combat round to swing back at their attacker right now. In this case both parties just have to roll above the low threshold to hit a target that's not trying to get out of the way or block, so both just end up wailing on each other.

Cue the dwarf knight doing this to everything, every attack, every round. Then one day he decided to play a thief and chose to stick to his usual tactics, which provided a near record time for character death. Oh the joy of 9th grade Palladium campaigns.

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