Spider Stomper
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Re: Riposte: the post
Another thing about riposte other than the often mentioned usefulness as a spellcaster, is that is is useful when moving away from a monster that is faster than you. Quite a few times, I have killed a snake in early D simply by walking away from it quite unintendedly. *Insert quip that most threats are nullified by walking away anyways.*
damerell wrote:Shard1697 wrote:What's wrong with stabbing with 2handers?
Well, I think of it as sneakily inserting a blade into a vital spot [1], which is probably quite hard to do if the point is two metres from your hands. If stabbing with claymores, why not stabbing with great maces or tridents? (You do, after all, still get the chance to avoid the target's EV and some bonus damage with another weapon, so it's not like sneak attacks don't exist at all without a Short Blade).
Game mechanically, as duvessa says, what's wrong with it is that two-handers are good already; you get it on short blades because otherwise they're not very good - hence in my proposal you get more of it the smaller your Blade is.
[1] On a jelly? I know, I know. But felids can eviscerate jellies and IDK how that works either.
Since you are arguing from reality, in reality, virtually every spot in the human body is a vital spot is a vital spot as long as it is deeper than 3 inches deep, and certainly as a longer blade goes through the human body, there is no spot that wouldn't be a vital spot. Even areas as far from the body, like the shoulder or groin is home to major arteries. No non ceremonial sword blade is 2 meters long, that's longer than some spears, and in reality it isn't much more difficult to aim. Anyways right now there are three tiers of stabbing. Dagger, Felid/short blades and everything else. I don't see a problem with moving long blades to short blades to be honest, thematically and game mechanically.