Can team be used to lower Take a Powerful Blow result?

3 thoughts on “Can team be used to lower Take a Powerful Blow result?”

1. In the past I’ve said yes, provided it makes sense in the fiction, but generally if you’re in a position to help on that roll it makes more sense to Defend against whatever is triggering it instead, and if you’ve already failed at Defending then assisting on Powerful Blow doesn’t really make sense. So it’s never actually happened in my games, that I recall.

   So, I’m sure there are some fictional corner cases where it’s appropriate, but for the most part I’d say no.

2. James Etheridge​ is spot on here. If your team can help, it’s probably a Defend action. You can use Team to boost that.

3. James Etheridge I actually used team to lower someone’s Powerful Blow roll in the Living Halcyon game, even though you’ve deleted that from your memory entirely.

   erez shpirer I think it should be up to the players at the table, because it can be relevant when someone Directly Engages and doesn’t choose to resist or avoid blows. In that case, Defending usually isn’t a possibility because the player basically chose “I get hit.” This is when that case comes up of “can I make the blow they’ve taken less bad?”

   That said, the rules don’t seem to lobby behind using Team in that way, so there’s that. If there is a correct answer, it’s no.

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