Statistics:Posted by yankeeschic — Tue Jun 03, 2025 4:28 am
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PG p. 172. Surprise strike talent wrote:(...)If the adept’s Attack test against such an opponent is successful, he
substitutes his Surprise Strike Step for his Strength Step in the Damage test.
Statistics:Posted by Avanti — Mon Jul 01, 2019 1:26 pm
So if the conditions are met, and the Lion spends the extra success, the target must make a knockdown test against the Attack test result, regardless of how much damage was dealt, or even if no damage was dealt past the targets armor. This extra knockdown test is granted by the Pounce ability, so it is not really accurate to say that the Surprise Strike would be an "Second Attack", it would simply be and addition to the damage of a test that is already going to be made anyway.Pounce wrote:If the creature reaches its opponent with a leap and the opponent isn’t too much larger, the creature may spend an additional success from the Attack test to force the opponent to make a Knockdown test against a DN equal to the Attack test result
The order in which this is written seems to me to say that first you check to see if the surprise strike conditions are met, then you declare that it is a Surprise Strike, then you make the Attack, then you do damage. It just does not seem to me that a target who became knocked down during the attack met the conditions early enough.Surprise Strike wrote:The adept takes advantage of an unaware or distracted opponent to inflict a telling blow. This talent may be used against targets that are Surprised, Blindsided, or Knocked Down. If the adept’s Attack test against such an opponent is successful, he substitutes his Surprise Strike Step for his Strength Step in the Damage test.
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