Topic: Faking going down and then noticing it.

[markc]

  Often in a game the GM says "...he go's down" during combat in which the PC gets a great swing on an enemy. I was wondering just how you would have a enemy fake the going down part (ie dead) and how would the PC notice if he was faking?


 I was thinking about acting for the enemy and either perception, weapon skill (ie I did not hit him hard enough for him to die), in RMSS and SM:P Lore Race or in SM:P some Anatomy or other science skill. What do you think of those options?


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[yammahoper]

sounds like a complicated description of an attempt at feinting.  other wise its an attempt to gain surprise, which is only a +20 bonusm in which case some sort of perception mnv.  Acting skill bonus would make a good penalty to the perception roll.

[markc]

 I was thinking more about an enemy "going down" and escaping. As we all know in RM you are not dead when you get to 0 pip's or hit's, you have a fairly large negative value as well to be removed before you die.
 But "going down" as a combat move I can see using feint maneuver to gain an OB bonus verses the target.


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[Ecthelion]

In the rare cases where an enemy was actually faking going down unconscious we usually handled this via the Acting skill on the enemy side and Perception/Observation on the PC side.

[Kristen Mork]

In the rare cases where an enemy was actually faking going down unconscious we usually handled this via the Acting skill on the enemy side and Perception/Observation on the PC side.

+1, except that I would use Situational Awareness - Triage as the relevant skill, at least in the heat of combat.

[jdale]

If you have a combat awareness skill (situational awareness) that would also make sense.

I would give people a big bonus if this was the only foe, but in a general melee with multiple combatants you shift your attention pretty fast and might not notice.

[intothatdarkness]

In the rare cases where an enemy was actually faking going down unconscious we usually handled this via the Acting skill on the enemy side and Perception/Observation on the PC side.

+1