MANEUVERS

This scroll will assist you in the use of maneuvers, customizable
abilities designed to narrow the focus of your weapon afflictions.

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The Basics
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Afflictions from your weapon attacks are dependent upon a number of
factors. First, the attack must connect with a certain body part...you
will not cripple someone's leg while aiming at his head. Second, you
must either jab or swing your weapon, depending on what affliction you
intend to cause... pinned legs do not occur from swinging, and scalping
does not occur from jabs. Finally, a certain amount of wounding is
required before an affliction can occur... much as we would like,
beheadings will not usually happen on the first hit. All of this
information is available within each affliction's individual help file.

Without poisons, only one affliction can occur per jab or swing. This
can sometimes lead to frustration, as exactly which affliction happens
is somewhat random, and what you get sometimes isn't what you want.
Maneuvers give you an extra degree of control over what type of
afflictions you can deal out, with some restrictions.

Maneuvers Can:
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o Remove the possibility that you will give out an undesired affliction.
o Work with any Swing or Jabbing action you have, including all actions
from the Slashing and Bashing sets, Strike maneuvers with Targetting,
and power maneuvers like Crush and Lunge.

Maneuvers Cannot:
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o Cause an affliction if you cannot hit the correct body part.
o Cause a jabbing affliction by swinging, or vice versa.
o Bypass the need for adequate wounds.
o Increase your accuracy.


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Creating Maneuvers
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MANEUVER CREATE (name)
-This will create a maneuver for you to define. MANEUVER DROP (name) to
undo this.

MANEUVER DEVELOP ACTION (name) (action)
-This will determine which action will be used by the named maneuver.
Valid actions include STRIKE, HACK/SLICE/SWIPE/SLASH or
SMITE/BASH/POUND/SMASH for Bonecrushers, and any specialty strikes you
possess.

MANEUVER DEVELOP WOUNDS (name) (affliction) (aff 2, if wanted) (aff
3...etc)
-This will determine what afflictions are possible off of the named
maneuver. You may specify any number of afflictions for a given
maneuver. Note that the possibility of a given affliction coming up is
better if the maneuver's wound list is small, and that the wound should
be able to occur off of the Action determined earlier in the process.

MANEUVER PERFORM (name) (additions)
-This is the command used to finally perform the maneuver.
(additions)refers to any additional input required, usually including
the target and a body part. What needs to be typed in that portion
depends on what action was used. For example, a WHACK maneuver
targetting Bashara's head using STRIKE would be performed using MANEUVER
PERFORM WHACK BASHARA HEAD. However, if it used the SMITE action, the
form would be MANEUVER PERFORM WHACK DOWN BASHARA.

MANEUVER DROP (name)
 -Erases a maneuver from your list.

MANEUVER LIST
-Shows all named maneuvers. Remember that only Maneuvers with both
Action and Wounds defined are useful to you.


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Sample Process
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This may all look a little intimidating, but it's easy once you have the
hang of it. If you're a Bonecrusher and want to, for some reason, create
a maneuver that only causes bloody nose and broken jaw, it's a
three-step process:

MANEUVER CREATE SILLYNAME
MANEUVER DEVELOP ACTION SILLYNAME STRIKE
MANEUVER DEVELOP WOUNDS SILLYNAME BLOODYNOSE BREAKJAW

And now you can call on the maneuver with MANEUVER PERFORM SILLYNAME
(target) HEAD, which will output:

You execute the Sillyname maneuver: STRIKE (target) HEAD.

And then it will perform the attack, with only the possibility of
causing a bloody nose or broken jaw if you connect.