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Each fighter gets one attack on their turn as per normal, and gets to roll a Defense roll against any attack thrown their way. Some pointers that way below:ġ.) For tavern brawling or other multi-fighter contests, reintroduce initiative. Now, my DM brain likes to latch on to things like this and expand them, so I’ve been working on ideas to expand the basic system to cover more chaotic encounters (tavern brawls, primarily) and better incorporate different characters’ abilities. When we played these rules in a shipboard fistfighting competition during sea travel, our paladin went something like eight rounds with the ship’s dragonborn champion before a fall far from being boring, some of the ladies in the party were hot under the collar by the end of it because these rules allow plenty of time for narrating your moves and adding some flavor to the contest without bogging down in 1+STR-ing 80-point HP bars to death. Characters with no Acro or Athletics and a low physical attack score end up having Nerdy Slapfights (guilty q_q), while characters with powerful unarmed modifiers and proficiencies across the board end up in epic boxing showdowns. The defense-roll aspect keeps a level of unpredictability in the bout that works well for chaotic fistiscuffles, street brawls, and tavern beatdowns, while also rewarding characters with physical training that should have a natural advantage in a fistfight. It sounds over-simplified and too simple, but I can attest that having seen it in play, there’s definitely something to it. Ignore hit points – instead, the first fighter to suffer three hits is knocked down and loses the fight. The Defense roll is the player’s choice of Acrobatics or Athletics, with Acro representing slippery dodges and Athletics representing boxing techniques like blocks, boxer’s parries, or similar.ģ.) Any fighter whose defense roll fails to defeat their opponent’s attack roll takes a hit.

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I’ll present his original system and then some side ideas for different situations I’ve been brainstorming since.ġ.) Don’t bother with Initiative – these rules are intended primarily for duels, and in a duel both fighters resolve their attacks simultaneously.Ģ.) Each fighter rolls two rolls – an Attack roll, using whatever mod they have a valid unarmed attack roll for (usually Strength, but can include Dex for monks, Intelligence for prosthetic-limbed battlesmith girls who get away with more than her DM should really let her sometimes, or the like) and a Defense roll. The DM for Grave of Saints, one of the two campaigns I’m playing, came up with a particularly elegant fix for this that we’ve been incorporating into our toolbox ever since, and which he’s given me permission to share. The standard combat rules just don’t work so well for this. Not to mention the issues inherent with blowing all of your HP on a random fistfight in the street. Either way, 1+ STR-ing one’s way through an HP bar much above fifth level takes forever, and swiftly stops being fun. Then either a healing spell is cast or the DM handwaives the damage and play continues. Normally these play out using the unmodified combat rules, two folks just wailing on each other until an HP bar runs dry. I don’t know a single DM who hasn’t had to adjudicate a sudden tavern brawl, or an impromptu street fight, or an informal prizefight in the hold of a ship, or some manner of scrappy fisticuff. Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures

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