Shield Bash - searching for the advantage

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Lursi
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Shield Bash - searching for the advantage

Post by Lursi » Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:58 am

Hi Folks,

I read the shield bash description and understood it the way that the shield bash test replaces the damage test for knockdown purposes.

Where is the advantage over an attack to knockdown combat option?

I must have gotten something wrong or missed out on a detail.
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Re: Shield Bash - searching for the advantage

Post by Lursi » Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:13 am

I found it myself

Shield Bash does damage AND enforces a knockdown test. Attack to Knockdown sacrifices damage.

There is more here:
http://fasagames.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... Bash#p3717
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Re: Shield Bash - searching for the advantage

Post by Wasol » Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:44 pm

Lursi wrote:
Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:13 am
I found it myself

Shield Bash does damage AND enforces a knockdown test. Attack to Knockdown sacrifices damage.

There is more here:
http://fasagames.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... Bash#p3717
Thank you for the answer!

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Re: Shield Bash - searching for the advantage

Post by etherial » Thu May 07, 2020 8:51 pm

It *also* lets you spend XP on Damage.

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Re: Shield Bash - searching for the advantage

Post by sigfriedmcwild » Thu May 07, 2020 11:09 pm

Xp that doesn't stack with forgings and has no base weapon damage, so they utility is limited in that sense

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