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Re: Combat Skills Levels with engtangles Thanks to everyone for all of the replies. I have to say that this is a very helpful board. Lots of replies that are helpful and no responses of "oh no not that noob question again." Anyway, thanks. I am trying to GM a new Hero game and hopefully not make too much of a mess of things...

Hi, Can someone declare a combat skill level (say a 3 point one or perhaps an all-ranged one) to be used with an entangle? If so, can it be used to "add damage" to the entangle? If so and the entangle does no damage does this mean it increases its duration or does nothing. I am a little confused because entangles are listed as attack powers and also book II on the sidebar on page 69 talks about unusual haymakers like a haymaker on an entangle. So I am not sure if CSLs are supposed to be used this way or not. Thanks!

Re: Blocking Thanks for responding so quickly!

Hi, I recently bought the 6th edition rules vol I and II, the champ powers book, champ universe, and unkindness, all from the Hero Games Store. That's a lot to read. Anyway, I am going to start GMing the unkindness module soon and one of my characters has taken Deflection because she has telekinetic powers and they enable her to make ranged blocks. Blocking is an attack action. I get that. But lets say character A and B are both going to act one a certain phase. Character A wants to attack and character B wants to block the attack. Now suppose that character A has a higher dex than character B. Does this mean that character B can't block the attack from character A, because the dex order means that B can't do anything yet that turn? Or is blocking treated more passively so that character B can block that turn (but it still of course uses up character B's attack action)? I ask because reading the rules makes it seem like character B can't block, but most other gaming pnp rpg systems would let B block, so I am just trying to verify that I have read the rules correctly.