| From: | Chris Maxfield <cmaxfiel@****.ORG.AU> |
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| Subject: | Re: the uac dilemma |
| Date: | Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:07:21 +1000 |
>Why would the combat pool be refreshed? It is refreshed at the
>beginning of a new combat turn... and that woud be BEFORE anyone of
>the two combatants acts... If you let the two refresh their combat
>pools at different times, well, the outcome is what you described...
>The one with the lower initiative (which should be a drawback)
>effectively doubles his pool for the turn. Doesn't make sense, does
>it?
Ummm, because that's the way the BBB describes it. On pg 84:
"Dice Pools initially become available for use at full values as the first
step of the first Combat Turn of any encounter. Characters can then draw
from them, as appropriate for the type of pool, during the Combat Turn.
Once dice are drawn from the pool, those dice are no longer available for
use until the pool refreshes at the beginning of the character's next action."
So the combat pool refreshes on character's actions not at the start of
each turn. If a character has multiple actions in a turn then that
character has multiple combat pool refreshes that turn. Yes, it doesn't
make sense that the initiative winner is disadvantaged and we have a house
rule for it, but if discussing the base rules that's the situation you get.
Chris
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