Yes, if they see an attack coming and are prepared, they can declare a
defensive action to absorb it.
On Nov 9, 8:11 am, Daniel Kane <daniel.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If they see it coming, wouldn't they have the opportunity to declare a
> normal Defends action at their full dice pool, even without Reflexive?
>
> ~Daniel
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Allan Goodall <awgood...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:28 PM, DivisMal1925 <croame...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> But wouldn't the reflexive extra allow the use of 'catch' without
> >> using up your action? The way I saw it was: you declare an action, and
> >> if hit by an explosion before your action you automatically absorb the
> >> explosion (or, if no hd, roll catch dice) and can then use your action
> >> to release the explosion by rolling your roll pool. Ifyou get a set,
> >> treat it as a hit with the original explosions stats. If you already
> >> acted that turn, you would have to use release next turn as your
> >> action.
> >> Am I getting this right?
>
> > Close. According to Reflexive, if you have the Defends quality and you are
> > attacked by surprise, you get to make a free defensive roll at -1d, as long
> > as the attack isn't Talent powered.
>
> > But if an ubermensch throws a grenade at you with his Hypercoordination,
> > you're back to defending and attacking as multiple actions.
>
> > (It's probably a bit too "gamey" to suggest that if you see it coming you
> > *can't* use Reflexive as a free action for a -1d penalty. I'd allow it,
> > but not against Talent attacks.)
>
> > If you don't want the -1d penalty, you would have to declare "Catch" as an
> > action. If you want to "Catch" an attack by a Talent, you would have to
> > declare "Catch" as an action. For things like grenade attacks from normal
> > attackers, 3hd (4hd with a -1d penalty) is probably good enough, so you
> > could let Reflexive defend you with a free action and attack with your
> > normal action.
>
> > That would be pretty cool, walking through explosions and firing them back
> > at the enemy.
>
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