Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[johnnii]

Desperate parry
"When a melee attack equals exactly the Parry of the defender, the defender has the option to let an item he is currently holding in his hand to take the damage instead (see Breaking things p71 in the corebook, ignore damage types). Damage that exceeds the objects toughness (in addition to breaking the object) goes directly against the defender (ex if a sword of toughness 12 takes 17 damage, 5 damage is applied to the defenders toughness). If he is holding nothing at the moment, he cannot use this option and the damage is applied to the defender as normal."

Thoughts, comments?[/b]

[Zadmar]

I like it, reminds me of those movies where the hero grabs some random piece of furniture to defend themselves against an axe-wielding madman, who then proceeds to cleave straight through it.

You could also extend it to unarmed combat: The player can choose to take the blow on one of their arms. This damages them normally, but uses the armour value for their arm, and if they're incapacitated they don't need to roll on the injury table (it automatically hits their arm).

[Enno]

It's called Improvised Weapons in Deluxe, extended by the Breaking Things and Obstacle rules...
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[Zadmar]

[Merlin_Sylver]

[Zadmar]

[johnnii]

[islan]

This reminds me: I was once pondering allowing a character to declare themselves going on Defend in response to being attacked (before the attack roll is made), even if it wasn't their turn yet (it still took up their Action for the round, though).

[robert4818]

[Enno]

Improvised weapons encompasses "improvised shields" too, as reflected in the parry penalty. In short, they protect by their Obstacle toughness, and break when an attack overcomes their Object toughness...
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