thom99

First off, Thanks everyone who's responded so far! Now, I'm inclined to agree with Merak, in that the RAW don't allow the target to defend and attack in the same Strike Rank. But SDLeary has a pretty good idea how to handle this; so I'll have to check with the group and see what they think!

OK, so my group has rhino and bison riding barbarians-who love to charge things! According to the BRP rules, "...a charge attack occurs at the end of a full movement..." SO...let's say they don't kill the foe they just charged-now what?? 1) Are they now considered engaged, so they must drop their lance and pull out a weapon to fight with? (or use the lance as a 1H spear as in the old RQ2 rules). OR 2) Do they just ride merrily on at the start of the next combat round and turn around and charge again? If so, does their foe get a free attack? It's a shame but I can find absolutely no rules for this! A pity that D&D (a much inferior system) has way better rules for this type of combat (as my ex D&D players keep pointing out!) Any help would be much appreciated!

OK wise ones of Lankhor Mhy, I'm trying to figure out just exactly how the summoning & binding rules work in BRP Basic Magic? The steps for summoning (say) a Power Spirit to bind into your handy enchanted Power spirit binding matrix seem to be as follows: 1] make your summon spirit & summoning ritual roll, and the POW spirit arrives, stunned until the DM rolls its POW under D100, 2] engage the POW spirit in spirit combat until you've reduced its POW to zero, 3] the next round cast Control Spirit spell vs. the POW spirit's zero power, and then... 4] Order the POW spirit into the enchanted matrix?? and you're done?! So...can you start attacking the (stunned) POW spirit the round after it arrives-getting the jump on it, so to speak? Or do you have to wait until it can participate in the spirit combat? Also, what happens to all those Power & Intellect spirit binding matrices if your PC is (gasp!) killed? Are the spirits freed (a la RQ2), or can your slayer just pick them up as extra booty? And...what happens to all those spells stored into the intellect spirit's mind-does the new owner get free access to them? What a bonanza! Just trying to figure all this out before my (future) PCs start asking the tough questions; thanks for any help! Tom, a (future) BRP GM