[Shaira]

Originally Posted by Celhan

1) If your opponent gets a Critical or Special Hit, your parry weapon or shield still subtracts damage on a successful roll. A successful dodge lets all that damage get through, unless you also got a special or critical success. This is a fairly serious objection to dodging... the very attacks you really, really want to avoid are the ones you are unlikely to be able to, even at a very high dodge skill. Special hits happen often enough to make this a scary prospect.

I think you may be right. I've got a question with Jason on that point at the moment - the Attack / Parry table is a little unclear.

Originally Posted by Celhan

On that subject, does the new BRP allow Dodges to work against Special or Critical successes, say by reducing the level of success (e.g. successful dodge against special success attack = regular successful attack)?

Since I posted this thread, I've found some wording in the Dodge skill description that suggests Dodge might be an opposed roll in combat - I'm going to post this on the Clarifications thread & see what Jason comes back with. It'll be the cincher for this question if it is the case.

Originally Posted by Celhan

2) If you're a starting character, your parry skill is goins to be around twenty percentiles higher than your dodge because of skill bases. Not an advantage to sneer at.

Good point - for beginning characters this is certainly a key advantage.

Originally Posted by Celhan

3) Dodge is affected by ENC on a 1 for 1 basis, but parries aren't (er... come to think of it, that's the way I've always played, I'm not sure if that's canonical in RQ).

That's now an optional rule, but works just like that. However, -1% per 1 ENC over the limit isn't much of a penalty. Dodge is also a Physical skill, rather than an Agility skill, so isn't affected by bulky armour, which might have been an interesting touch.

Originally Posted by Celhan

Any of that stuff still work in BRP Zero?

Still trying to find out! In general, though, the rules are looking very consistent and well thought-out - just a bit different from what us old RQ or SB or CoC grognards may have been used to!

Cheers,

Sarah