Editing Age Of Dragons: Social Conflict (section)

=Tactical Positioning: Physical and Conceptual=

Position in social combat can be represented in two different ways.

For social conflicts spread across a wide geographic area (for example a city, or a kingdom) the landmarks used could be actual physical locations. In this case manoeuvring involves actual movement between these locations. Moving from one physical location to an adjacent one might requires spotting Soma dice, for example, spotting three 5+ Soma dice to move one distance step. Its worth bearing in mind the timescales here - if each round is one day, for example, then "adjacent" locations should be roughly apart a distance that a dragon could cover easily in a day, or several times over with effort - that is, about a hundred miles.

For social conflicts contained in a single area, the locations  can be more conceptual. For example, if battling to win the hearts and minds of a crowd of humans, one location could represent the nobility, another the merchant class and another the peasantry. In this case their proximity should depend on how close said groups interests are. For example, the merchant class could be 1 range step from both peasantry and nobility, but peasantry and nobility would be 2 steps apart. By default, moving from one conceptual location to an adjacent one requires spotting one 5+ Pnuema dice.


==Strategies==

In addition to tactical movement manoeuvres, it is possible to use the spotting step to achieve various strategies. Strategies are not dependent on whether you are flying or not:

* '''Strategy effect: Evade Arguments'''
To activate this Strategy, the Dragon must '''spot 5+ on Pneuma dice'''. For each dice spotted in this way the dragon gains '''+1 Social Defence'''. These points must be spent by the start of his next turn, or they are lost.


* '''Strategy effect: Focus'''
To activate this Strategy, the Dragon must '''spot 5+ on Pneuma dice'''. For each dice spotted in this way the dragon deducts '''-1 Social Defence''' from one enemy. The target must be at close quarters and who are at the same altitude. Also, this cannot reduce Social Defence below 0.



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