Shattered Kingdoms

I'm told taking your opponents weapon is a legit tactic circa start of time to now.

Also just make locked gauntlets an item in the game. That solves a [REDACTED] tone of disarm issues. Instead of letting them be 100% effective give the defender a huge bonus to save vs disarm. If those that are afraid of the disarm fear it less they won't need to many extras. And yeah hoarders gonna hoard. If someone can justify using them all then it shouldn't be a problem.

[sblock]Locking Gauntlet was a gauntlet used in 16th century which featured extra long fingers that could be locked to the wrist. This setup prevented a sword, axe or mace from being dislodged from warrior's hands. Simply a warrior could not be disarmed. These type of gauntlets were forbidden during tournaments and because of that this type of gauntlet was also called the forbidden gauntlet. [/sblock]

Could also just change disarm to always put the weapon in your inventory and make you unable to wield for a whole round of combat.

One round of lag doesn't seem a good offset considering the lag of being bashed. 2 or 2.5 sounds much better in that instance. Help avoid triggers.

There should be some benefit to choosing disarm over another skill. Personally i am ok with it's function at the moment, it's the behavior that it generates.

Something nobody's yet to bring up (and I personally wouldn't like to see this change), but the obvious answer to hoarders would be to (be ready to gasp in disgust):

Have all items be available in unlimited ammounts.

If the hoarding is really as big of a problem as people make it out to be, this might be a solution. I personally think that if every adventurer and their mother was running arround with the equipment of Lord Algorab's lutenint, a cloak of arcane symbols, and a chromatic Landksnecht, things would get a little stale (and it would break a bit of the fantasy-realism I love about SK), but it's a thought.

Yeah, as much as I want things to be accessible, that is even too much.

When you remember that wielding a weapon also carries some lag, it's actually not as weak as you think.

Don't remember, isn't that lag based on the speed of the weapon?

Should be.

*IF* the current incarnation of disarm is going to be changed, not that I want it. Sargas's proposal sounds like a decent compromise.

1 to 1.5 round would work then.

Why don't more of our skills have a random amount to their lag time? It would make the game harder to predict and give some more thought and attention to tactics. Have a minimum time and a maximum time needed, but have a random number generator to determine exatly where the lag falls.