Author’s Diary for March 27, 2020: Bids Appendix (Tripping and Getting Back Up)

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How do you trip someone up in Covenant? And how do they get back up? Find out below the fold.

Trip: Knocking other characters prone during fights

• To Accomplish: Opposed Agility bid vs. target’s Agility bid
• Successful Bid: The target is either knocked prone or, on a narrow surface, knocked off the surface.
• Unsuccessful Bid: The target maintains its current stance.
• Suggested Traits:  Athletics, Agility, Fighting, Trickery
• Suggested Advantages:
  • The character is larger than the target.
  • The target is in a kneeling stance.
  • The target has injured or lost the use of xir arms or legs.
  • The target ’s movement is restricted (EXAMPLE: by a net, shackles, rope, handcuffs, or another character).
• Suggested Disadvantages:
  • The character is smaller than the target.
  • The target has more than two legs.
  • The target has some way to balance or brace xirself.
  • The target is intoxicated.
  • The target is overburdened.

Regain Footing: Climbing to your feet after being knocked prone or tripped

• To Accomplish: Fixed Agility bid, set by the FM
• Successful Bid: The character regains xir footing.
• Unsuccessful Bid: The character remains prone.
• Suggested Traits: Athletics, Agility, Movement
• Suggested Advantages:
  • The target has some way to balance or brace xirself.
• Suggested Disadvantages:
  • The character has more than two legs.
  • The character is intoxicated.
  • The character is overburdened.

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