I recently started playing again after two years and my local judge told me if I wanted to carry a character out of melee combat that they had to make a break away roll. Is this true because it was not the case when I played two years ago.

Just to clarify I'm using a character NOT locked in melee combat to carry a friendly character who was adjacent to an enemy.

Thanks.

Under the normal rules no. A carried character is placed. And placing is not moving. And only characters that attempts to move have to roll break away.

Carry:
Rulebook pg 8
Rulebook pg. 8

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Mir got to it before I could.

Summary: Carrying is placing, not moving. This means that they do not have to breakaway as breakaway,generally, only comes up when moving.

That makes me sad. If you are judging other players, you have to read and know the rules. Hopefully, when the new rules come out there will be a renewed interest, and people will read them again. I read cover to cover, and I try to re-read couple times a year. Its tough to when I know a new rules book is coming.

They other key element which many people overlook is that breakaway is needed when TWO conditions are met: movement AND an action is given to the character moving.

There are very few examples of movement without actions. I can only think of two off of the top of my head, but I think there are a couple more.


Note that this just says to move them. It doesn't say that Robin is given a free action or anything in order to move. As Robin isn't given an action, he does not roll to break away. (You can't even choose to roll for it even if you wanted to do so...like if you put Shake-Off or something on him.)

Note that Batman IS given an action...the free action of Smoke Cloud. As nothing in the text makes the movement happen outside of that action, then he would have to roll.

This one is more straight forward. He just moves. There's no action, so there's is no break away roll.

Underline: Yeah...that's not going to happen, unfortunately.
Italics: Getting people to read it once is like pulling teeth. You'd have a better chance of catching a fart and painting it green than you would have of getting people to read the rules a second time.

I need to upgrade my subscription to be able to add this to my signature.

Remember, a move of zero spaces is still a move.

You can use RS to change this:

EEEXYT

to this:

EEYXET

Where E is empty, X is you, Y is your friend, and T is target.

So you can have Y between you and the target, move zero, pick them up, put them down behind you, and take your shot.

Thanks for the replies. I thought that was the case but I'd been away for 2 years so I took their word for it when they told me it had changed.