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Tugor
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 Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject: Balance issue |
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>kneel
You kneel.
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Almost tripping, an eosheai attempts to bite you. As expected, you parry the attack easily.
bala
[You are incredibly balanced, healthy, well rested, and kneeling.]
An asapi flaps northeast, squawking loudly.
>[You are incredibly balanced, healthy, well rested, and kneeling.]
>lie
You lie down.
With confidence, an eosheai attempts to bite you. Returning with equal ferocity, you parry the attack.
[You are incredibly balanced, healthy, well rested, and prone.]
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Moving as gracefully as a charging argabu, an eosheai attempts to bite you. Without hesitation, you parry the attack.
[You are incredibly balanced, healthy, well rested, and prone.] |
I don't think one should be able to stay so incredibly balanced after laying down. Kneeling I could understand but laying down? I think we should take significant balance reductions after kneeling\laying down and they should stay down as well.
I could just imagine seeing someone rolling around on the ground while in combat, dodging and parrying blows. As comic as it sounds, it's a bit too unrealistic I think.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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actually, i think it's pretty cool that someone can do all that and still be balanced.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| soundless wrote: |
| actually, i think it's pretty cool that someone can do all that and still be balanced. |
When going across a balance beam, you are much more balanced the more of your surface touches the beam. Laying, technically, gives you the most balance.
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Tugor
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Kit wrote: |
| When going across a balance beam, you are much more balanced the more of your surface touches the beam. Laying, technically, gives you the most balance. |
Yea but that's not while things are shooting at you, trying to stab\claw\bite\rend and tear you to shreds or chucking fire bombs at you.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Tugor wrote: |
| Kit wrote: |
| When going across a balance beam, you are much more balanced the more of your surface touches the beam. Laying, technically, gives you the most balance. |
Yea but that's not while things are shooting at you, trying to stab\claw\bite\rend and tear you to shreds or chucking fire bombs at you. |
You're still balanced...just prone and vulnerable. There's two different things.
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Tugor
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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How balanced can one be after rolling time and time again in an attempt to evade blows? I would think you might start getting dizzy or something.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Tugor wrote: |
| How balanced can one be after rolling time and time again in an attempt to evade blows? I would think you might start getting dizzy or something. |
That's what acrobatics training is for.
As for the balance thing, I don't think kneeling should automatically reduce your balance. But you'd lose it faster and recover it slower since it would be more difficult to attack and defend. |
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Tugor
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't mean an automatic reduction, I meant more along the lines of a more gradual loss. I shoulda posted a longer example. But staying at incredibly balanced even through kneeling\laying down, changing position etc. doesn't seem right to me.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Either way, if you are prone, sitting, or kneeling you receive a defense penalty, regardless of balance. I also *think* you're more likely to lose balance after an attack/defense if in these states but there is no auto reduction of balance built into the LIE, SIT or KNEEL commands.
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