Affect Area
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| AFFECT AREA | One Action |
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You go all-out in an attempt to affect a larger number of foes than usual with your attack. You might perform a wild, sweeping strike backed by raw muscle power to cut through multiple enemies, or you might yank a rug out from under a group of guards to trip them.
Make an opposed check, with a -1 penalty for each foe you wish to affect. Any of your opponents who fail fall into your affected area. Your next attack or maneuver affects all opponents who failed their opposed check against this maneuver. You must have a reasonable means of attacking multiple foes, such as all being within your reach, or positioned in such a way that a single attack could conceivably strike all of them in some other way.
Failure: If all of your opponents win their opposed check, you don’t affect any of them. However, even if only one of them fails their check, that opponent falls into your affected area.
Examples: Use Might to cleave through four enemies with a single mighty blow. Use Acrobatics to perform a daring spin-move and slash at four enemies at once. Use Expertise (Tactics) to position your enemies just right on a staircase so sending one tumbling will knock all of them down. Use [[Persuasion] to cow your enemies into falling back and bunching together so you can drop a chandelier on them.
