Hi people

If you and a comrade are in melee against a foe, can you parry a melee attack aimed at your friend? (Assuming he is unable to parry or dodge it).

and just to confirm RAW: when parrying or dodging, the fact that the blow hits has already been determined? ie, the RAW is: GM rolls to hit, says "the hideous beast has hit you! - feel like dodging?" rather than "the hideous beast attacks you - will you try to dodge it?" (in the latter case, a successful dodge would mean that the GM doesn't even roll to attack)

Many thanks

Mark.

Hey!

No, the Dm rolls to attack first- the dodge is in reaction to the act. If your feeling brave enough, or the opponent is puny enough, you don't have to dodge it- saving your reaction to the more dangerous attacks you might be facing during the round.

kiwimuso said:

By RAW, I think the answer is "No, you can't".

In Rogue Trader you have a talent called Guardian which allows the character to take the attack aimed at anyone within his Half Move distance (or something like that). You can easily adapt that to DH if the book doesn't include the talent.

I forgot to answer that part of the question- the Inquisitor's book offers expanded use of skills, one of the ideas was dodging (at -10) to position yourself and take the hit for a friend.

If you happen to have blade wall, I don''t see why you could not dodge into the attack then parry it. Parry itself doesn't have any "expanded" uses, but a Dm should feel free to be open minded, same with the players. If your in a situation where you could conceivably block an attack for another player (standing side by side, for example) it should be doable- just difficult [-20 or -30].

In RT there is a Talent which allows you to "dodge" for an ally but take the hit yourself.

1. You dont have to dodge/parry atacks if they didn't hit. You declare dodge/parry after successful enemy hit.

2. By the rules I don't think you can parry an atack made against a character standing close to you, Logically it should be allowed. There is a crusader in ascension book who gets special trait: shield against charm, which allows him to make a parry as a reaction to block an attack made against the inquisitor, If everybody could do this this trait would be useless.