Defensive entangle

[dsatow]

You see in our favorite wall crawler comic every once in a while. Some massive area of effect is going to go off and to protect himself, our hero entangles himself in a globe of webbing.

1) Entangle is normally a standard power/attack action. This would normally mean you can't abort to this action. Is there an exception for entangle used in this way?

2) If you do entangle yourself to protect against some attack, do you have to break out normally or because its your own power do you easily rip out of the entangle?

IMHO, I probably would allow #1 as an abort/block style action but require breakout in #2 since its an existing effect, the entangle would have to be broken out of even if it had personal immunity since you are waiving the immunity to get the defense of the entangle. Just wondering what the official rules are.

[Steve Long]

Whether a character can Abort to an Action is purely a question of whether the GM judges it to be a "defensive action." If the GM thinks that Aborting to protect one's self with an Entangle is a "defensive action," then it can be Aborted to. Similarly, I'll leave it to the GM to determine any other rules consequences of that action, using common sense, dramatic sense, and an appreciation for game balance and verisimilitude. ;)