Re: Phased-turn in ranged combat

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: : Can anybody from Heuristic Park, or anybody who knows,
: : explain how turns work in ranged combat? Let's say you
: : are in a melee with some monsters and both you and
: : them are now turn-based. Now another monster shows up
: : on the horizon and chucks a spell at you -- at this
: : point is he in real-time or he is turn-based also? If
: : the monster avoids closing to melee range, does he ever
: : gets into turn-based mode?

: : And what about movement? It seems that turn-based works
: : only with regard to attacks, while movement stays in
: : real-time always. Thus if I want to keep range open and
: : avoid melee, I have to back away in real-time, right?
: : There is no way for me avoid melee on a turn-based
: : basis -- if I want to run I can, but it's all in
: : real-time always.

: : IMHO that's not good. If I want to apply even the most
: : basic tactics (like trying to avoid being surrounded)
: : I have to pretend I am playing Doom and run around
: : in real-time. If I want to avoid melee -- same thing, 
: : I have to avoid it in real-time, shooting arrows and
: : and spells as I run back: Doom (or maybe Heretic) again.

: : I think it is a problem. 

: : To summarize: it seems to me that:

: : (1) Movement is never turn-based. Essentially, movement
: : is free (in the sense of turns/action points/etc.) and
: : is always real-time.

: : (2) Monsters enter turn-based mode when they close to
: : melee range, or -- possibly -- they enter it *after*
: : their first attack (which means the initiative is
: : always decided on the real-time basis: who shot first)

: : If I am mistaken about this, would somebody please
: : correct me?

: : Karla
: Not sure but a couple of occassions it seemed that if my active charachter moved to much in combat that the enemy got to attack again so maybe there is a limit to moving and fighting per round but I cant say for sure and dont know if that applies to enemies as well.



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