[UA] UA lrp (was no subject)

[Greg Stolze]

>When attacking, you choose one of two strategies (total attack and
>cautious >attack) or attempt whatever else (eg, run away).  The defender
>chooses out of >three strategies (totall offense, cautious offense, or
>total defense).  The >effectiveness of your attack is determined by
>comparing your strategy with >their strategy (and rolling your skill,
>which is unimportant in this instance).  >Total attack smashes right
>through the weak defense of cautious attack, but is >blocked by total
>defense.  Cautious attack can get around total defense, etc.  >When both
>choose the same strategy, skill levels determine who wins.  (Also, >this
>all seems to imply [IIRC]the defender gets a simultaneous counterattack on
>>the attacker's turn, which some roleplayers can't seem to get, but makes
>sense >in the sword-fighting context).  There's more involved than that,
>but you >should buy the book, and the comic as well.  I suppose Greg could
>explain it >all better if he chose to do so.

It's really just rock/paper/scissors in Japanese drag.  ("Roshambo Meets
Roshamon?")

Total Attack = Rock
Total Defense = Paper
Cautious Attack = Scissors

Therefore, a total defense beats a total attack but is vulnerable to a
cautious attack.  A total attack beats through a cautious attack but is too
obvious to penetrate a total defense.  A cautious attack can find the
weakness in a total defense, but doesn't have the sheer power to stop a
total attack.

It helps to have the context from the UY comics to understand a total
attack.  There are many fight scenes where the opponents stare at each
other from ten feet away, then they both holler and charge one another.
Generally one dies.  (That's why, in the RPG, if you get total attack vs.
total attack, the winner does DOUBLE damage.)

-G.

If the reinstatement of capital punishment was clearly doing nothing to
reduce the number of murders in those states permitting it, it certainly
appeared to be cutting down on the number of confessions.
        -Dr. Douglas Ubelaker

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