Thus Spake Zaraborgstrom/FiveFoldBulwarkStance

From RPG.net, 8/6/06 Q: How does Fivefold Bulwark Stance handle flurries?

A: Reduce the DV penalty for every action in the flurry independently.

This is the author's intention.

Note that many of the DV penalties in the book dropped by a point after playtesting. (That is, most of them were about one point higher when I wrote the Charms.)

If you can make a strong case that this will break something, or to the contrary, please make it here (and without back-and-forth argument if possible) for reference of any Storytellers who later refer to this.

Rebecca

Comments

Yeah, so glad to have THAT argument over. Many thanks to Rebecca! -FlowsLikeBits

Would someone be so kind as to elaborate on how else this could be interpreted? I'm confused as to what argument there could be... -- GreenLantern

Whether you add the penalties first then substract one or if you substract one from each DV penalties caused by each action in a flurry first and then add them up. - TonyC

So... can you give an example? -- GL, surprisingly stupid lately

Yurgen Kaneko has been challenged into personal combat by the Dragons of Califax. He has Five-Fold Bulwark Stance up already. During his action, he flurries a Dash and three attacks with his Grand Daiklave, Resolution. What is his DV penalty at the end of his action? A Dash is -2. Three attacks are -1, -1, and -1. One way of reading FFBS is to add everything first, then reduce penalty by one. So Yurgen ends up with a DV penalty of -4. The other way of reading FFBS is to reduce every penalty by one first, then add them up, so you get -1 for Dash, and 0 for the attacks, for a total of -1. Rebecca is clarifying that the second interpretation is what she intended. - TonyC