First: if anyone needs help with a character, find me on Discord (or here).<br/><br/>Second: guys, we're moving to a test fight while you're making your PCs. The Referee is in the mood for<strong>glorious combat</strong>and frankly, I'm glad to oblige ;D!<br/>We're going to wait for you, of course (I can admit that I've been looking to play with both of you). Hope you don't mind us having some<strong>glorious combat</strong>in the meantime?<br/><br/><br/>As a bonus, you get to see an example fight, which shows how much SAs matter...<br/><br/>Kubrat started the first round with 22 Melee Pool! It's 7 Reflex+11 Brawling*+2 Defensive stance+2PA.<br/>And, funny as it is, those 2 PA are going to change it from a slow fight where Kubrat might get hurt into a quickie where he's curbstomping his enemy.<br/>Why? Because without them I'd have had "merely" 11 points left after my first defence. And with 1 Activation cost (which you don't pay, I'm just too focused on the kill due to a Poor Quality) it wouldn't have been good to try a Duck and Weave.<br/>But with them? Well, nothing is safe in a dicepool system, but every die has a 25% odds to give me a success. With 12 dice (after activation) I can look at an average of 3 successes...<br/>Which is how much he can hope to achieve if he's as lucky as possible. So, the odds are now in my favour and I'm going to do exactly that.<br/>If I succeed? He probably gets a penalty (if he rolled any successes), which translates as bonus points for me. On top of it, I become agressor, and get into my optimal range for kicking him in the shins.<br/>.<br/>Edit: you also get to see that the dice can play a joke on you. He got 3 successes on 3 dice, I got 2 on 12 :P.<br/><br/><br/>*Word of advice from me: if you're buying a second melee proficiency, buy it from the highest default (that's actually how it works, IME, but if you disagree, take it as a game advice). I literally got 11 Brawling for 1 Proficiency point...from the -2 proficiency default from my Cut&Trust 12. If I could have bought a bow from it as well, I would have, even at a -8 penalty ;D!<br/><br/><br/>And hey, what do you know? I got a point to my passion for women >:)!