Martial Stance

Power Stance

Available to: Warriors

This stance is only possible when under the duration of Surge of Strength (minimum of 3 ranks required)

Any creature that blocks or parries an attack from a two-handed weapon or polearm (two-handed) with a shield or weapon, the attacker has a chance to power through the block and strike the target. The chance to do this is 15% + 15% per rank. The attack will have an AS penalty of -25/-15/-10 for ranks 1/2/3 and can be performend once every 30 - 5 seconds per rank.

Requirements: two-handed weapon/polearm

Prerequisties: Surge of Strength (at 3 ranks)

Does not trigger with MOC or Berserk

If someone has Surge of Strength at 3 ranks - they gain +12 to AS.
If they have 1 rank in Power Stance, they'd have a -13 AS when powering through a block or parry (-25 for Power Stance rank1 +12 from Surge rank3 = -13)
They'd have a 30% chance for every block/parry against them to power through and strike the target, and it can trigger once every 25 seconds.

If someone maxed both:
5 ranks of Surge - they gain +16 AS
3 ranks Power Stance, they'd have a +6 AS when powering through a block or parry (-10 for Power stance rank3 +16 from Surge rank5 = +6)
They'd have a 60% chance for every block/parry against them to power through and strike the target and it can trigger once every 15 seconds.


Just something I thought of because I really, really hate when a target that is full offensive and they still block and/or parry my attack multiple times in a row. It would be nice to have a way to allow the E/B/P system be, for lack of a better word, circumvented (or maybe ignored).

I also figure it shouldn't trigger with a MOC attack (focused or unfocused) or berserk since you're just trying to strike as fast as possible, as many times as possible. I see it as a single target attack - the target brings up their shield and you attempt to use your brute strength to power through. If you have multiple targets or try to strike a single target multiple times, you're not able to exert your extra power since you're working on striking so many targets.

-Drumpel

This is what I'm talking about when a Power Stance would be great to have:

>at

You swing a perfect drakar flamberge at a shelfae chieftain!

AS: +168 vs DS: +42 with AvD: +47 + d100 roll: +58 = +231

... and hit for 96 points of damage!

Left leg ripped from socket at the knee!

A shelfae chieftain screams and falls to the ground grasping its mangled left leg!

The shelfae chieftain is stunned!

Your drakar flamberge flares with a burst of flame!

... 20 points of damage!

Burst of flames to abdomen toasts skin nicely.

Roundtime: 5 sec.

>at

You swing a perfect drakar flamberge at a shelfae chieftain!

Unable to focus clearly, the shelfae chieftain blindly blocks the attack!

Roundtime: 5 sec.

>

You feel at full magical power again.

>at

You swing a perfect drakar flamberge at a shelfae chieftain!

The shelfae chieftain stumbles dazedly, somehow managing to block the attack with its halberd!

Roundtime: 5 sec.

>at

You swing a perfect drakar flamberge at a shelfae chieftain!

AS: +168 vs DS: +62 with AvD: +47 + d100 roll: +34 = +187

... and hit for 64 points of damage!

Diagonal slash leaves a bloody trail across the shelfae chieftain's torso.

The shelfae chieftain screams one last time and dies.

Roundtime: 5 sec.

Target is prone and stunned, yet it blocked my attack twice (so annoying). The chance to power through one of those blocks just to get that killing blow sooner would be awesome.

-Drumpel

Right, can't put the closing table tag on the last line of the table, it has to be on its own line. 🙄

Let's try that again.

Skill Name: Mighty Blow

Mnemonic: mblow

Hostile: Yes

Stamina Cost: 25 (+5 for two-handed or two-weapon attacks).

Other Requirements: Polearms cannot be used with this maneuver.

Available to: Warriors.

Prerequisites:

None

CMP Cost:

Rank 1: (Squares) 2

Rank 2: (Squares) 4

Rank 3: (Squares) 6

Rank 4: (Squares) 8

Rank 5: (Squares) 10

Description: A powerful swing that reduces the target's stance and increases the amount of damage done by a successful hit. This swing takes 1 second longer than normal.

I think what you are looking for is Cman Truehand. It does not negate 100% of E/B/P and is not a persistent effect but its something. The attack roll boost is nice as well.

Skill Name: Truehand

Mnemonic: truehand

Hostile: Yes

Stamina Cost: Base 10. Additional stamina costs are determined by the Base Weapon Speed of your attack. A stamina penalty of +1 per second of base speed is applied for each second under 5 and +2 for each second over 5. For two weapon combat, an effective Base Weapon Speed is calculated by taking the primary weapon's base speed, adding half the secondary weapon's base speed (rounded up), and adding 1 to the result. The minimum stamina cost is 10.

Other Requirements: Cannot be used from hiding.

Available to: Warriors, Rogues, Paladins.

Prerequisites: None

CMP Cost:

Rank 1: (Squares) 2 (Semis) 3

Rank 2: (Squares) 4 (Semis) 6

Rank 3: (Squares) 6 (Semis) 9

Rank 4: (Squares) 8 (Semis) 12

Rank 5: (Squares) 10 (Semis) 15

Description: Increases the chance to hit your target for one swing. At Rank 1, Truehand changes the standard attack d100 roll to 20 + d80 and reduces the target's chances of evading, parrying, and/or blocking your attack by 10%. Each additional rank adds 10 to your combat roll (d80, d70, d60, d50, d40) and reduces your opponent's evasion, parry, and blocking ability by a further 10%.

For what it's worth, I recall with fond memories one of my characters being in, I think it was the Warfarer Mine, with a couple each of warfarers & warriors in the room, and he got knocked prone (in Offensive) by the EWave for like 15s...
...and all four of them then proceeded to run into him Evading or Blocking or Parrying.

Then he stood up and beat the snot out of the four of them, took their loot, and went on his merry way.

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(Version with less anecdote: "sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." What is annoying to us (when critters make our attacks be ineffective) is a vital lifesaver (when we make critters' attacks be ineffective)... So be careful what you wish for, in terms of "ways to mitigate that.")

I wasn't addressing the Stance issue at all.
(Although now I'll take the opportunity to repeat my objection to (re-)use of the word 'Stance' for an entirely separate game mechanic, since we already had a use for the word 'Stance' for a game mechanic.
And, of course, see also Order of the Stick: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0012.html )

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I was speaking to the "not have to face EBP results."