On Mon, 24 May 2004, Dave Hill wrote:

> In other words, you don't really want to be tumbling like
> a clown, but tumbling like someone who's gone through
> Basic Training, or is used to tumbling in a gunfight.

Sure. Here's another example -- in Mike Holmes' Fate PBEM,
I'm playing a benighted toadling creature named Mump that
was used as the subject of a bunch of magical experiments
and now walks around scarred and full of side-effects
(such as, he glows). We decided to represent his ability
to glow as a skill ("Glow", in fact).

I could very much see a combat situation where Mump tried
to avoid hardship by glowing bright enough to make an
attacker startled or blinded and thus fail to hit him. No
+1 appropriate there. Nor is a +1 appropriate when he is
using his Leaping (he's got toad-strong legs) to escape
harm in combat.

He does, however, have the combat-focused skill of Evade,
which under this rule he'd pretty much always be using
solely defensively, and thus might warrant a +1 in those
situations.

(In all of this, I'm not suggesting that Mike does or
should run the game with these +1's, I'm just using Mump
as a readily available example.)

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