A Few easy combat questions

[svwerley]

What is the modifier against a character facing away from his attacker?

 

If an attacker is attempting a disarm against an offhand weapon and the defender does not have offhand defense, is there a penalty to his OCV to defend against the attempt to disarm?

 

Is there a penalty to switch a melee weapon from off hand to primary hand?  Like a -1 OCV in that round, or is it just a half phase action with no consequence.

 

I cannot find this one in the rules, but I THOUGHT I remembered from an old edition that if you half moved and attacked you got a -1 OCV for that round.  Or is that just me totally misremembering.

[Steve Long]

1. Check the DCV Modifiers Table under “Attacked from behind.”

 

2. No.

 

3. There’s no modifier for switching a weapon between hands. Doing so requires a Half Phase Action, but if a character succeeds with a Fast Draw roll, he can do so as a Zero Phase Action.

 

4. That rule was eliminated in the 4th Edition. So you’re not misremembering, you’re just remembering something that no longer exists.