@Lithium Fate would be good, but I actually think that Savage Worlds would be a better system. It's just about as simple as Fate, but it seems to me like it's more lethal. Not overly lethal, but still deadly. And FMA should feel deadly at times.
Hughes... u_u
@Thenomain We're all going to have to get used to it sooner or later. It took people years to call Vampire the Requiem anything other than some variation of New Vampire The Masquerade, after all.
@tragedyjones said:
In CofD 2E, you do not technically make an attack roll in a grapple, even when you are inflicting damage, you make an opposed Strength + Brawl roll. @Coin's reasoning fails because you do not lose defense when you are grappled in either edition.
I was about to post this myself. The only time you lose defense in a grapple is when you've been pinned, which in and of itself takes three grapple actions to achieve. First, it needs to be established/controlled, then you need to take the hold maneuver, and lastly the restrain maneuver. Then the restrained character is denied their defense. But that's it.
Actually, though, there is a log I'll share of a CofD 2E combat workshop I ran for the fine folks over at Reno, and a Combat cheat sheet I made on googledocs for my house game that I'll share. I hope it'll help people in learning and understanding the combat system.
Combat Workshop (with examples): http://reno.mechanipus.com/wiki/Logs:Dorian_Does_Combat
Google Doc Combat Cheat Sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tds5heZgazcqvMNT9D8tvXrwvpIeKIRIn1DXu5mCGp8/
Added Bonus! Workshop of the Doors Social System: http://reno.mechanipus.com/wiki/Logs:OOC_Dorian_Discusses_Doors
@Tyche I'm going off of 2nd Edition rules here, so I hope that's what you're running. Anyway, no. You can't make an all out attack in a grapple. The reason is that once a grapple is established, you're no longer actually making attack rolls. On the next character's initiative in the grapple, all grappling parties make a roll of their strength+brawl. Whoever wins controls the grapple in that turn, and can choose a maneuver from the list of ones available. If they score a critical success with 5 or more, then they get to chose two maneuvers. But while these are strength+brawl rolls, they are not attack rolls. The are grapple check rolls, which is a subtle difference.
Hope this helps?
FMA, I think, really would make for a decent setting, where the world itself is compelling enough to warrant interesting play, unlike many anime. God, I really like playing fire based characters just so I can fingersnap all Mustang style.
@lordbelh I need to finish the last season, but man, I'm stoked.
@Sanguine Hey! Neat! I still need to get a scene in with you sometime soon.
@Jaded LOL I'm not so sure many of my scenes with Takahiko were all that memorable. I only played that character fairly briefly. Thanks, though. I appreciate it. I do try to make sure that people have fun in the scenes I'm in, and give my best for folks. Feel free to message me and let me know who you were. Maybe we can play again sometime, somewhere else. 
Certainly understood. I know they're currently in need of a Raph on HeroMux right now, though. The Michaelangelo there is really an awesome guy, too. I don't know the others as well, yet. Also, I think the Mikey from BNW might be app'ing a character there now, too, and he's a great dude to play with.
Hey! Sup?! Sorry you never made it through. Man, I never got a chance to really do much with Shredder, sadly. Was really hoping to have all the turtles, if not Splinter. Never did get a Raph actually up and running.
Former:
Dorian Richard-Hinton Porter (Vampire, The Reach/Currently at Reno)
Ulfrik (Viking Vampire, The Reach)
Orson Rand (Purified Immortal, The Reach)
Elliot Greyson (Werewolf, The Reach/Currently at Reno)
Takahiko (Mekhet Acolyte, Kingsmouth)
Tim Drake (HeroMux, CoMux)
Hunter Rose (HeroMux)
Exodus (HeroMux)
Roberto DaCosta (CoMux)
Dick Grayson (Brave New World)
Scott Summers (Brave New World)
Jack Marlowe/Spartan (Brave New World)
Storm Shadow (Brave New World)
Shredder (Brave New World)
Ryu (Brave New World)
Sunfire (Brave New World)
Ninjak (Brave New World)
Danny Rand/Iron Fist (Brave New World)
Sterling Archer (Staff Bit/Brave New World)
Matt Murdock (HeroMux, current)
Victor Creed (HeroMux, current)
Julian Blackwood (Vamp, Fallcoast)
Bailey Summerset (Vamp, Fallcoast)
Ishihara Ryuhei (Vamp, App'ed at F&L, and Reno 2.0. Never actually played on Reno)
Nightwing (United Heroes)
Black Panther (United Heroes)
Ishihara Ryuhei (Vampire, Fallcoast)
Ezra Brixton (Geist, Fallcoast)
Death (Staffbit, Descent)
Ryo, Zeku, Guy, Ky, Eliot, and a host of others (Match of the Millennium)
Current:
Gambit (Comic Adventures)
Hercules (Comic Adventures)
Miles Morales (Comic Adventures)
Akiyama Goro (City of Hope, on grid as Goro)
