--- In FateRPG@yahoogroups.com, D B <softflowingwaters@...> wrote:
>
> According to the rules, he'll get to attack you again before you can
> do anything anyways. The system would reward you if you declared
full
> defense any time you went to the back of the line. After every
action
> you make, or every time you get hit, you'd go to the back anyway, so
> you could declare full defense just then until it's your turn again.
> Here's how I understand it:
>
> Suppose person A attacks person B and misses, then A goes to the
back
> of the line and B can go next. A immediately declares Full Defense.
> Then B takes his swing, misses (or hits, it doesn't matter), and
goes
> to the back of the line, where he declares Full Defense too.
Neither
> one takes any penalty whatsoever for declaring full defense, and
they
> have it on all the time until their next turn comes.

This is a very good point. In my head I had always imagined someone
taking the Full Defense only after they had been hit. Never just
straight away as an "immediate" action. You're right, there's no
downside. That is a problem.

I would say in this that if you've attacked, you lose your Full
Defense option until you either go again, or you get hit.

Alternately, just drop Full Defense altogether to avoid the headache,
and rely solely on tags and invocations to turn the fight around.

Even more alternately, disallow Full Defense as an "early" action, and
only allow it to be declared on your turn. This is probably the best
choice.