Topic: Quickdraw

[Carontir]

Hello everyone, 

A couple of questions about Quickdraw (both the Combat Maneuver-skill and the Adrenal Quickdraw).

The skill description says: "If successful, the weapon is out of the scabbard...without the normal 20% activity required for drawing a weapon." It also says that "On a partial success, the character takes the the normal time (and penalty) to draw the weapon."

My questions are:

1. Does this still count as one of the three actions allowed in one round if successful?
2. If not how should this rounds actions be declared?

[markc]

Carontir,
 First welcome to the ICE Forums.


IMHO on your Adrenal QuickDraw you declare the draw during your declaration phase. If you succeed it takes no % action and does not take up one of you actions per round. But if you are only partially successful it takes 20% action and does count vs your 3 actions per round. It also counts as your 1 adrenal action per round (I think this is an official rule but cannot remember the book or page number right now.)
IMHO you should have the extra 20% probably go to your attack or subtracted from your attack.

Does that help?
MDC

[Kristen Mork]

IMHO, Quickdraw should still count as an action (what I may or may not have written in SoHK notwithstanding).  If you succeed, the cost is 1 action and 0% activity.  If you fail, the cost is 1 action and 20% activity.

If a successful Quickdraw does not count as an action, it can wreak havoc with the declaration phase.

[Carontir]

First welcome to the ICE Forums.

Thank you! 

If a successful Quickdraw does not count as an action, it can wreak havoc with the declaration phase.

Yes it does... 
But if it does count as an action, it's really not that useful. Ok, you get another 20% for that first round, but that's it.

[rdanhenry]

"Only" another 20% activity available to devote to your attack? That's equivalent to a +30 bonus from a instantaneous spell (since you don't have the 10% Activity knock down on the spell that makes +15 effectively +5, etc.). I'm not going to look it up right now, but I believe that's a pretty high level spell for a Paladin. Even if it only counts at the start of a fight.

[providence13]

Saving 20%Act is a pretty big deal for us too. Often life vs death.
The characters with this skill want to be good at it..