7.14.3 - hand free and stationary

oki a couple of questions:

1-a weilder cannot move because it will disrupt the connection with the source…

In another word if the weilder is knocked back, in a moving vehicule, freefalling on very unstable ground (ocean) he cannot weild at all. Is that right ?

I find this restriction very cool but very restrictive but quite logical with the way weilding is done.

2- if a weilder loose a hand, what happen? Can he weild with a replacement (cybernetic, bio regrowth ect)? if he loose a digit doest it impair him?

3- does he need to see his target? distance, LOS ect?

thanks

PS: I created another topic with weilding question to make it easy for others to find specific answer more easily. Just say soo if you prefer to see all weilding questions in one topic. I hope we will get to see a weilding book there is so much stuff that can be done with it.

Noirfatale,

I think a lot of this is up to GM interpretation.  Below are how I would / have handled these things.

1)  I interpret the stipulation of not moving while you wield to be more geared towards "You cant take any other actions".  I don’t see any problems why you wouldn’t be able to wield while within a moving vehicle.  The other situations you describe, I would force the player to make a concentration check in order to successfully wield.  I would also make them do so while taking damage during wielding.

2)  Yes, I would certainly allow them to wield using a replaced hand (be it cybernetic, or biological).  If he were to try with only one hand, or several missing digits, I’d just adjust the difficulty to something i felt was appropriate.  If the body part was severed WHILE they were wielding, well…  See above.

3)  I don’t remember if the book says anything about LOS.  I thought it had.  I would say for most scenarios, yes, and mostly for balance purposes.  If you wanted to allow wielding w/o LOS, it’s your choice, you may just want to increase the DR.

personally I think that Innate weilder should have a extra ace up their sleeve by beign able to weil in mouvement and witout gesture.

That would make them so much more apealing and yould even be tempting for arcane weilders and spiritual weilder.

as for arcane weilder, it would be a cool restriction that they must stay stationary to weild so they can handle the flow of cosmic energy thru their body to shape it with intentions. They could probably move if they lower the weilding time to zero (or 1) segment on the Weilding time chart (see time on target chart)

that way no need to create new table or stuff its all there.

As for LOS I would say one thing: you need a LOS but your eyes are not the only way to see. With clarity and the apropriate source you could locate your target. Time could predict ennemy mouvement ect. I am not shure I would allow LOS with technology help (cybereyes, detector ect) altough you could target the area after seeing ennemy location with a device.

as for hands I agree with you, I might give a raise to the DR but they would still be able to do it. As I said earlyer I would spare innate weilder but only with source and intention combinaison they took with their innate ability.

I asked MSL a similar question about movement a while back. What they said more or less agreed with Hecubus. Being in a moving vehicle is not inhibitive of wielding. Assuming of course the vehicle isn’t bumping around or somesuch, in which case a concentration check is in order.

[quote="kargenetic":c5756]I asked MSL a similar question about movement a while back. What they said more or less agreed with Hecubus. Being in a moving vehicle is not inhibitive of wielding. Assuming of course the vehicle isn’t bumping around or somesuch, in which case a concentration check is in order.[/quote:c5756]

yep found the post and added to the unofficial FAQ.

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Would it be possible to get an official ruling on this?