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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>g_c_grabowski - 10/01/2003 23:07:37 - raindog@white-wolf.com <br />
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It means if you have a 10 die pool to parry with and you're caught before your initiative tick, you can activate a combo with DSD and GEB, get 10 dice from DSD when you activate it ("buying" a parry) and buy another 10 dice with GEB, for a total of twenty dice on the parry. You can also do this after you take a full action, or use GEB to enhance automatic parries granted by a full scene parry Charm.<br />
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Is that clear?<br />
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Geoffrey C. Grabowski<br />
Exalted Developer, WWGS<br />
raindog@white-wolf.com <br />
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g_c_grabowski - 10/01/2003 23:19:01 - raindog@white-wolf.com <br />
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As I stated, you can use it with other parries. In general, dice-adding parry charms allow you to add the weapon's parry bonus under the current combat metarules. I think that may change but that's the way it is right now.<br />
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Geoffrey C. Grabowski<br />
Exalted Developer, WWGS<br />
raindog@white-wolf.com <br />
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g_c_grabowski - 10/02/2003 09:11:56 - raindog@white-wolf.com <br />
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>>>Character B loses iniative. He CAN'T use GEB to "build" <br />
a parry action from 0 Dice.<<<<br />
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No, you can do that but it will top out at your Dex + Melee + parry bonus, because you have 0 dice in your pool, so you are forced to build a normal parry roll die by die. <br />
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Charms where you are paying X per X dice are still reflexive timing-wise, but they are mechanically "different" from the ones that create the fact of you taking an action at full dice pool. The latter is effectively a sort of limited extra action. There should probably be some sort of typing that classifies them formally, but I didn't really forsee that 3 years ago. <br />
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>>>But he can use DSD to get a full parry action including <br />
the weapon's defensive bonus.<<<<br />
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Correct, and then he can use GEB on top of it to double that number. <br />
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>>>If he activates his combo, he can use GEB to add dice to<br />
parry he gets from DSD.<<<<br />
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Right.<br />
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>>>Character A splits his die pool once. One action to <br />
attack, another to defend. He can use GEB to add dice to<br />
his parry attempt up to the normal limits imposed by<br />
Solar Dice adders. Correct?<<<<br />
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Correct.<br />
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Geoffrey C. Grabowski<br />
Exalted Developer, WWGS<br />
raindog@whote-wolf.com <br />
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>>>So it is just Reed in the Wind. Well, a bit better, since you can also add your parry bonus.<br />
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In other words, dodge dude with dex 5 dodge 5 can total at 20.<br />
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Parry dude with dex 5 melee 5 and a golden sword can max out at 26.<<<<br />
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g_c_grabowski - 10/02/2003 09:35:35 - raindog@white-wolf.com <br />
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That's correct, Mailanka. I'm sorry I didn't clear this up earlier. I thought I had explained it in the FAQ.<br />
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Geoffrey C. Grabowski<br />
Exalted Developer, WWGS<br />
raindog@white-wolf.com <br />
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g_c_grabowski - 10/02/2003 10:22:07 - raindog@white-wolf.com <br />
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I will try to look at it. I'm currently in the middle of the Player's Guide but will try to find time.<br />
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Geoffrey C. Grabowski<br />
Exalted Developer, WWGS<br />
raindog@white-wolf.com <br />
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(note that "it" refers to confusing GEB wording)</div>BrokenShade