| Errenor |
Easl wrote:[...] People wielding weapons absolutely do target and do hand-eye actions before successfully connecting, and it is absolutely the case that victims can react to that by moving while/in the midst of that hand-eye action taking place. [...]I Ready to Leap away when the orc does the hand-eye actions to target me.
As the orc moves up to you (with his first action), he probes your defenses with a feeble axe swing. Your readied trigger is fulfilled so you leap away! The orc then chases after you with his second action and brings his axe crashing down from above.
Adversarial GM or are they just leaning into the narrative idea that not all weapon/character interactions are Strike? As soon as they are in range, they are Threatening you by harassing you with their weapon.
Sure, the characters can probably differentiate a full strength swing from something else but if you need a full workflow diagram and a short story to set up your ready trigger, you probably shouldn't be using it in that manner.
As stated before, the problem arises from the Ready trigger originating in the narrative space trying to impose mechanical effects when the narrative space is not well defined.
Oh, yes, exactly. We need to remember that narrative could (and probably should) be much richer than "one Strike is one weapon swing" and "when you aren't Striking or Feinting your weapon is motionless".