Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Crimson Innocence 10-17-05, 10:40 PM	How do you rule two characters being locked together, with handcuffs by the wrist?
Lawrence 10-17-05, 11:12 PM	kinda like being half-way tied together? they can't move apart, they could try to team STR check the cuffs (and if they outmatch one another by too much it fails as well), harder escape check? depends what they try to do to get out of it.
Crimson Innocence 10-17-05, 11:54 PM	well, I mean like movement and such, it's far too powerful to allow characters two movements in a single turn completely unhindered by the other, what about attack and defending while restrained like that? I'm asking, because I'm holding a Gladiator fight where they are tied together, and I plan to make it against the rules to break out of the chains...
weasel fierce 10-18-05, 04:50 AM	I'd say they both act at the worse of their initiatives, move in the same direction (or the stronger guy decides, but at half pace). Attacks and armour class both at -2.
Xeviat-DM 10-18-05, 06:39 AM	The two characters would have to share the same space, and thus would take the penalties of creatures who are squeezing into an area. As for movement, I'd either rule that they both act on the same initiative count (lower one) and have to take the same movement, or worse that one has to ready their movement to coincide with the others. They could use aid another to attempt to break the bonds. One way to emulate both characters doing something together would be for them both to ready the action: "On the count of three ... 1, 2, 3!"
Crimson Innocence 10-18-05, 10:30 AM	Me thinks that if they should use the aid another action, they should get to move the slowest one's full speed, and quite possibly lift a part of the penelties...
DrMorganes 10-18-05, 12:22 PM	The two characters would have to share the same space, and thus would take the penalties of creatures who are squeezing into an area. As for movement, I'd either rule that they both act on the same initiative count (lower one) and have to take the same movement, or worse that one has to ready their movement to coincide with the others.They wouldn't have to share the same square. Think about it: if you handcuff yourself to a friend, you can stand to the side, in front, or behind each other. You don't occupy the same space, but you DO have to stay in adjacent squares. Maneuverability would be hindered, so I like the -2 to AC and attack. They would act on the same initiative, have to move in the same direction at the same time - which means that if one wants a move-equivalent action, the other cannot move that turn - and move at the slowest speed (if different).
Gold Katana 10-18-05, 03:46 PM	I think they could do be in adjacent squares or the same square, if one were hiding behind the other. Think of the first fight in Gladiator, where one man had a shield and the other a weapon.
Crimson Innocence 10-19-05, 11:32 AM	I would consider that aid another action, in a differenter kinda way...