Standard maneuver roll

The standard maneuver roll system is used to determine the success of most physical actions that do not fall within the attack roll or CMAN systems. These include special attacks performed by creatures such as the tail sweep of the cave lizard, three-toed tegu, and the snow madrinol; a soul golem's steam push; an Illoke's ground stomp; an Ithzir adept's lightning mote; and a war griffin's ride of doom.

SMR is an d100 open roll with many additive modifiers and is successful if the total exceeds 100. The original SMR system typically does not show the exact result of the roll and modifiers. The new system (SMR v2) shows the d100 and the sum of the modifiers.

SMR v1

The original SMR system is currently used by the vast majority of creature attacks.

Statistics

• Dexterity
• Agility

Race

Certain races receive a bonus to dodging maneuver attacks, with smaller racers generally having the larger bonus. Races not listed on the following table are considered to have an average ability to dodge maneuvers.

Best:	Burghal Gnomes
Excellent:	Halflings, Forest Gnomes, and Elves
Good:	Half-Elves, Dark Elves, Sylvankind, Erithians, and Aelotoi

Training

Sidebox: Armor Penalty

"The armor penalty is a relatively significant factor. For a character exactly trained for full plate at cap, it contributes a penalty a little bit above the difference between 1x and 2x PF. Overtraining in armor to reduce the action penalty and/or using Armored Evasion can reduce the maneuver penalty by a fairly significant amount, however."

- GM Coase

• Physical Fitness - Physical Fitness is the primary skill for defense against standard creature maneuvers.
• Combat Maneuvers - Combat Maneuvers is twice as effective as perception in defensive and operates on a sliding scale until they are equal in offensive.
• Perception
• Shield Use - Shield Use factors into creature maneuvers that can be blocked by a shield.

Additionally, Armor Use can provide a bonus by reducing the action penalty.

Spells

The following spells provide bonuses to evading maneuvers:

• Heroism (215)
• Prayer (313)
• Temporal Reversion (540) (randomly triggered)
• Mobility (618)
• Phase (704)
• Song of Luck (1006) (randomly triggered)
• Empathic Focus (1109)
• Premonition (1220)
• Dauntless (1606)
• Patron's Blessing (1611)

The following spells provide bonuses to blocking maneuvers:

• Spirit Barrier (102)
• Wall of Force (140)
• Elemental Barrier (430)
• Elemental Deflection (507)

Stance

Defensive stance is best.

Condition

A character's present condition also has an effect on their defenses. Low spirit will penalize the target, as well as certain types of injuries and scars.

SMR v2

SMRv2 was released in December 2016 and shows a visible roll.

The primary defense for the defender is calculated using:

Stats

1. Primary: Agility
2. Secondary: Dexterity and Intuition

Skills

All skills are weighted equally by the SMR.

• Dodging (Spells that give a bonus to dodge ranks are taken into account.)
• Combat Maneuvers (The bonus ranks granted by Patron's Blessing (1611) are taken into account.)
• Perception
• Physical Fitness
• Shield Use is used in some cases, depending on the maneuver.

Defender Spells

• Heroism (215)
• Prayer (313)
• Haste (535)
• Phase (704) (Sorcerous Lore, Demonology ranks increase this bonus.)
• Cloak of Shadows (712)
• Melgorehn's Aura (913)
• Empathic Focus (1109)
• Patron's Blessing (1611)

Other Factors

Stance, level difference, size/race, injuries, encumbrance, armor penalty, and status conditions.

Some factors may not be considered for a particular maneuver, depending upon its specifics. For example, magical maneuvers such as Earthen Fury (917) do not factor in the caster's stance or injuries.

Implementation

• Earthen Fury (917)
• Great Auction of 2016 items including energy bracers and the Captain Elanthia Shield
• Giant stomp
• Caedera quaking
• Tail sweep
• Wing buffet
• Bandit dispel shard
• Triton drowning
• Poison fog (giant fog beetle)
• Confluence twisting vortex air blast
• Dreamvine twinkling dust
• Dreamvine wrap
• Unholy quickening
• Settlement of Reim traps

Maneuver Defense Provided by Magic Items and Scrolls

Training in Magic Item Use and Arcane Symbols provides a bonus similar to spell ranks to add to the effectiveness of a maneuver attack spell activated from magic items and scrolls, respectively. Spell maneuver bonuses are sphere/spell specific, but generally follow the pattern of:

Bonus Per AS/MIU Rank	Limit
0.5	Up to level
0.33	Up to 2x level
0.1	Over 2x level

References

• Stronghold Bowels information (saved post)
• Saved posts