I'm reading through the MAC book and the Disarm and Feint skills are confusing me.. the the feint skill seems particularly weak.
From the example (MAC pg 83) it looks like your skill bonus in feint/disarm isn't actually used in the skill roll, but instead is just the maximum OB you can devote to the attempt. Is this correct?
If so, it seems to me that the feint skill is really weak, you have to sacrifice a healthy hunk of your OB (since your competing against your opponent's ENTIRE OB) with hopes of reducing their DB (which is most cases is less then their OB) and recovering only half the OB you gave up.
The math isn't adding up. It looks like a fighter, attempting to feint another fighter, who's his equal, must give up most of his OB, and hope for a lucky feint roll (85+) in order to knock off enough DB to make it worth losing half the invested OB.... That is of course... assuming the opponent has a high enough DB to make it worth while...
This after the fighter has invested plenty of DP's into the feint skill.
Disarm makes a bit more sense, since it isn't necessarily a build up to a immediate attack like feint is.