Editing Age Of Dragons: Social Conflict (section)

=Reflexive Actions=

Reflexive Actions are never taken during your own turn, but used at a certain place during other character's turns. Lifepath powers and skills will give access to additional reflexive actions, but all characters have access to the Social Defence option:


==Social Defence==

The '''Defend''' reflexive action allows a dragon to avoid and rebutt social attacks coming his way. 

The '''Trigger Condition''' for '''Defend''' is that the character must be about to be struck by an social attack or effect that would damage his mental resilience.

The defending character can reflexively spend points of '''Social Defence''', with each point spent negating the effect of one dice expended. This can reduce or fully negate a social attack.

Note that by default characters do not usually have any points of social defence. It is therefore usually very important to use the '''Strategy: Social Evade''' during your spotting step to ensure that you have at least some defence.


===Passive Social Defence===

'''Passive Social Defence''' is gained via certain skills and powers, as detailed in the Lifepath sections.

At the start of your turn, if a character's current '''Social Defence''' is less than his '''Passive Social Defence''', then it immediately increases to that value. Also, at the start of a combat, before he has taken his first action, a character automatically has '''Social Defence''' equal to his '''Passive Social Defence'''.



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