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Thanks for the advice and reviews! We ended up taking chunks of your movement thoughts and developing them into rules that allow the use of miniatures (which we like) but reduce the opportunities to get in-between the holes in the rules and exploit. As we play test them, I will post them so that oth...

Arma - We have never played Earthdawn rules before, so this may be an odd question. But you mentioned combat was not supposed to be that tactical. How do you avoid that? Do you play without miniatures to represent position and just talk it through?

Consider these possibilities and discuss... 1. I like the assumption that engaged opponents choose their facing. Facing change should be a simple action that can be made at any time, but only once per round after reacting to the primary opponent. This means you get a facing determination when you en...

That is the way we played it for the first session. Without "attack-of-opportunity" rules though, engaging and disengaging opens up a lot of opportunity for simply flowing through a battle and moving to opponents already engaged but with their backs toward you.

I recently started playing an Earthdawn campaign and purchased the complete Third Edition books set. I have not been able to find rules associated with combat movement. Is there a location that details how characters engaged in melee move with respect to each other? For instance; If a character can ...