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Cloak?

Started by ShaneNINE, November 25, 2002, 01:53:50 PM

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ShaneNINE

The book mentions a weapon called a cloak? What is that?
::: Shane

ethan_greer

If I had to guess (which I do, since I don't own the book) I would say that it's referring to using a cloak as an entangling weapon - either tangle up the opponent's sword, or throw it over the opponent's head.

MrGeneHa

There are pretty nice rules for Cloaks as a weapon in GURPS.  I'll do some simple translation into TRoS rules (which are much better combat rules).

A heavy cloak (eg wool) provides light armor (AV 1?) and can be used as a shield to Block.  A slash for DR 2 above the AV would render it useless as a shield.

It can be used to attack with the Toss maneuver (you don't need to let go).

It may also be used to Entangle.  There are no rules for this yet that I know of.  Would someone like to write some and post them to:
http://www.geocities.com/sgalthof/houserules.html  ?

A light cloak (eg cotton or silk) provides no armor protection.  It can also be used for Blocks.  A slash for DR 2 would shred it, and puncture attacks would probably lose 1 DR and just go through it.

It can also be used to Toss.

It is superior to a heavy cloak for Entangles.

Gene Ha
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Mike Holmes

Cool. I think that you could probably treat an entangling attack as a bind. Perhaps with even more risk/reward. A difficult maneuver with a high TN, but with potentially high return; say two times successes are subtracted from the opponent's pool? Thus with a really excetptionally good roll, the opponent may be completely taken out, being totally pinned by the cloak.

It's good that we talk about this, because I was hoping to have rules for nets in combat as well.

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Lyrax

Quote from: ShaneNINEThe book mentions a weapon called a cloak? What is that?
Well, it's just like a cloak, only...
okay, so it's a cloak.  You wear it.  You throw it over your enemy.  It's good stuff.
Lance Meibos
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Gene-

Great rules. I've got my own coming up for TFOB, but for now yours will do, I think.

Jake
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