Question about duplicate range tags
So if you have something with tags, and a tag gets doubled for some reason, what happens? I’ve been largely fudging this for whatever makes sense at the time, which is probably ultimately the ‘right’ answer, but I’m curious what the intended answer would be.
So for example, lets say you have a Chosen, and they have a special weapon with a base of staff (which is 1 harm hand/close).
First, this brings up a separate tangential range question… I was thinking the close range would work at hand range also, but since staff explicitly has hand/close, I assume that means it can be used effectively at hand range or close range… which implies that something with hand range won’t work at close (which is pretty clear), but also that it wouldn’t work at intimate (also, not hard to grasp), but harder to grasp, this also implies that a close weapon is not effective at hand range? I guess this makes sense, may vary in situation, but so, a shotgun (close) would not be effective at hand range, not because you couldn’t hold it up against something and fire, but that it would be too unwieldy to bring to bear against something actively trying not to get hit by it at hand range? So, maybe sawing off the same shotgun might change it to (close/hand)? Ok, so that’s interesting, hadn’t thought of that until asking this question just now, but I guess it makes sense.
Now, back to that chosen with a staff… if they choose the modifier long (add the close tag)… how would that work… would it change hand/close to just close, would it be ignored since close was already applied, or would it double the close tag in some way (maybe out-range another non-throwable close weapon)… hmmm, this wasn’t as confusing an example as one I had earlier, but can’t remember what it was, but if you double it, does it really become more a flavor choice, or how might you apply double-close?
The more I type, the more it seems like I know the answer, but I swear, earlier there was some case where it really did seem unclear! 🙂
So, a spell-slinger’s missile combat spell base (far) can not be used effectively from intimate to close/throwing range?
Thanks for thoughts, again my putting words to the question has in many ways answered a lot of the questions for me, though.
-JM
my opinion on this would be,,, it depends on how thy are using the staff, so if the Chosen adds the Long in addition to the Std Close/Hand, then they just added a new maneuver with the Staff, however the fiction dictates. perhaps they throw it like a spear, perhaps it has a built in blow gun. maybe it separates into a 3-sectional staff extending the range in a sweeping blow.
me i’d just ask my hunter to fictionally justify it,, if I buy the justification then they can do it.
Range tags just make an attack usable at that range, so having a “double” close (or whatever) doesn’t change anything. Adding “close” to a “far” attack, however, would increase it’s flexibility.
Other tags may stack or not, depending on what makes sense. E.g. something with doubled “loud” could be extremely loud, or maybe it’s still just regular loud – it depends on how that attack works.