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Can Move By be used as a charge attack?


Barwickian

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Can Move By be used as a charge attack to gain a full move and attack?

 

For example, a character has 12m movement and a 1m reach sword. Her opponent is 13m away. Can she move her allotted 12m and attack the opponent?

The maneuver description specifies a character must move past an opponent, which means no.

 

But it also says an attack can be made at any point on the path (which would include the end), and when visualising the action - the character running at full tilt, thrusting her sword in front of her - allowing the attack seems reasonable.

 

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No (unless, of course, the GM rules otherwise). That sounds more like a Move Through to me (which “allows a character to attack at the end of a Full Move by running right into his opponent”), whereas a Move By “allows a character to attack while doing a Full Move past his target” (emphasis added). However, this is the HERO System, and the Combat Maneuvers are “generic” game elements to which special effects (visual descriptions of the action) are applied. If a Strike can be a punch, kick, sword blow, or countless other things, it’s possible that some GMs would be comfortable with a character performing a Move By the way that you describe.

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