Topic: Parrying with 2-handed weapons...

[GoblynByte]

In Arms Law it says that two-handed weapons can only use 50% of the attacker's OB for parrying one-handed weapons (and for polearms parrying any non-polearm weapon).  How does this factor into getting the "full parry" bonus for devoting all of you OB to parrying?  Does it cap out at 50% for DB and you just "lose" the extra 50% in favor of the parry bonus?

[Rasyr-Mjolnir]

I have always played it that in such cases only 50% of the amount of OB moved to DB is actually applied.

Thus, if you have an OB of 100, and you decide to put 50 points into parrying, only 25 of those points are applied to DB. Therefore, a Full Parry (when you have an OB of 100) would give you your 50% maximum.

[GoblynByte]

I have always played it that in such cases only 50% of the amount of OB moved to DB is actually applied.

Thus, if you have an OB of 100, and you decide to put 50 points into parrying, only 25 of those points are applied to DB. Therefore, a Full Parry (when you have an OB of 100) would give you your 50% maximum.

Oooo...I like that.  Very slick.  Avoids much confusion that way.

[Rasyr-Mjolnir]

Only seems sensible and like you said, it avoids confusion that way. 

[Balhirath]

I do it the same way and never had any problems with it (Except for a few players )
 

[Ecthelion]

We also do it the same way and it works fine.

[magritte@shaw.ca]

That's the way we did it as well, although strangely I thought it was a house rule, rather than an optional rule.  I have this bad habit of not actually reading the rules carefully enough to know whether a rule is core, optional or something we made up because there either was no rule or we didn't like the rules.