Penalties for Drawing a weapon?

[BinaryMoses]

OK, now I never have penalized a player for not having their weapon drawn at the start of combat-I just treated it like a free action. However, having gone and made a deathknight NPC with Ebon Lightning Prana, the language in the Charm seems to imply that there is some sort of mechanical penalty for drawing a weapon. Is this a dice action, is it mentioned explicitely somewhere? Someone let me know what's going on, please!

 

[memesis]

In 2E it's explicitly a Miscellaneous Action, and takes time.  In 1E, you can probably just treat it like an un-rolled action.


In 1E, I treat it as a reflexive action anyone can do when combat begins, BUT which takes time if you do it after battle starts.

 

[Guest]

I could never find it in 1E, cause they hid rules, but I always assumed it counted as a dice action, for usual multiple action penalties.


He answered your question for 2E. If you wanted to be nice, it could be part of a Flurry I guess, from what little I understand of what little rules I've heard.

 

[memesis]

I could never find it in 1E, cause they hid rules, but I always assumed it counted as a dice action, for usual multiple action penalties.
He answered your question for 2E. If you wanted to be nice, it could be part of a Flurry I guess, from what little I understand of what little rules I've heard.

The 2E rules for flurrying a draw are:  You can draw and attack as a two-action flurry.  The normal draw speed is 5, but in the special case where you immediately attack after readying, the speed of the draw is the speed of your weapon.


In other words, it is no faster or shorter to ready+attack than to draw+attack.  It just imposes dice and DV penalties to do both at once.