Defense vs. Barrier
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:41 pm
It seems that Barrier does the same as defense. Only to have a barrier up costs endurance and you can redirect damage from health to endurance.
This redirecting can be usefull, because you can heal endurance faster. But you don't want to burn up your endurance either because you use it for power moves and spells.
Defense is effectivly the same as a Barrier, but you cannot redirect damage to endurance. And it doesn't cost endurance to defend.
I thought about it for a while and came to this.
With the rules from the book defense seems somewhat better. (Barrier also can look magical and unnatural. So this might cause problems in some settings)
What I would change would be:
In the rules it is stated you can take a defense against anything that tries to damage you. But even in most anime you don't see good swordsman defend against super explosions and rockets.
It would be nicer if you can use defense against "normal" attacks like other melee attacks (maybe even bullets). But you can use Barrier to defend against everything, since barrier is some kind of magical shield.
What do you think about this?
This redirecting can be usefull, because you can heal endurance faster. But you don't want to burn up your endurance either because you use it for power moves and spells.
Defense is effectivly the same as a Barrier, but you cannot redirect damage to endurance. And it doesn't cost endurance to defend.
I thought about it for a while and came to this.
With the rules from the book defense seems somewhat better. (Barrier also can look magical and unnatural. So this might cause problems in some settings)
What I would change would be:
In the rules it is stated you can take a defense against anything that tries to damage you. But even in most anime you don't see good swordsman defend against super explosions and rockets.
It would be nicer if you can use defense against "normal" attacks like other melee attacks (maybe even bullets). But you can use Barrier to defend against everything, since barrier is some kind of magical shield.
What do you think about this?