the unarmed combat rules seem a little confusing to me.
unarmed combat gets a critical rating of 5, disorient 1, and "knockdown qualities".
it seems like equipping a pair of brass knuckles makes your disorient mod much worse, is that intended?
and what does "knockdown qualities" means? does that mean you can knock down a target with an advantage 1?
if this has been corrected somewhere, i apologize, i did a quick search but didn't see this question before.
ok! haha sorry, please bare with me…
…i think i just figured out the disorient thing. disorient 3 isn't the cost to activate the disorient, it's the duration of time the target is disoriented. i'm still confused by the "knockdown qualities" statement…
darth_scarymonster said:
the unarmed combat rules seem a little confusing to me.
unarmed combat gets a critical rating of 5, disorient 1, and "knockdown qualities".
it seems like equipping a pair of brass knuckles makes your disorient mod much worse, is that intended?
and what does "knockdown qualities" means? does that mean you can knock down a target with an advantage 1?
if this has been corrected somewhere, i apologize, i did a quick search but didn't see this question before.
You've placed the quotes in the wrong place. ALL of the following are weapon qualities:
The rating on disorient is how many turns the target suffers disorient, NOT how many advantages are required to activate it. It takes 2 adv to activate disorient, regardless of the rating.
Knockdown allows the attacker to spend 2 adv (+1 per silhouette over 1).
-WJL
interesting, ok…
so if you attack with an unarmed attack, you have a much easier time knocking down an opponent than if you use the melee talent "knockdown" on page 95, which lets you turn a triumph on a melee attack into a knockdown result?
so attacking with your fists lets you knockdown opponents easier than attacking with a sword? just double checking that the RAW is intended.
It's not just "attacking with your fists." The Brawl skill encompasses grappling, punching, kicking ,biting, etc. A decent unarmed fighter will go in to
Anyway. Real-world fighting styles aside, I think this mechanic makes sense and is one advantage Brawl attacks have over Melee attacks. There aren't many of those in the rules as of yet
It should also be noted that the guy with a vibrosword can also do unarmed attacks if they want to knock someone over (rather than cutting their target up). I don't see it as a unarmed > melee; It's melee = options.
Ahhh of course. Thanks doc!