The Riposte skill is a special attack skill, which allows the character to Parry (as described in the skill of the same name) an incoming attack while also calling a damaging attack which unless properly defended against will cause the defender to take the Riposte user’s normal weapon damage. This skill cannot be augmented by another ability like Lethal Strike or Eviscerate

To launch this attack, the character must say at minimum “Riposte ”, and if needed the hand which the strike is coming from. This attack is only good for the one (1) parry in which it is made.

For example, it would be feasible to hear, “Riposte 15 Magic” from a player using a magical weapon for the attack.

The strike must parry an incoming melee attack on the player and have been able to make physical contact with the initial attacker. If blocked by any of the Parry, Block or Dodge skills, the Riposte Strike’s damage will be nullified

There are certain limitations to the damage that can be caused by this attack. The first is the damage which the player would normally call, such that if a player would normally call “5 normal” they would be able to call “Riposte 5 normal” when using this skill. The skill is used up whether it is successful or not at that time.

The second would be the maximum that the weapon itself can call, thus a dagger with its maximum of 15 damage would only ever be able to call 15 points of damage from a frontal attack when using this skill.

Some creatures and even some characters can develop a natural defense against this attack and certain attacks such as Lethal Strike, where in they only take a limited amount of damage. As the Riposte skill is a straight damaging skill the creature would take whatever the damage called against them would be, so long as the attack is successful. Damage Reductions and Absorptions still would be applied normally to counter act any damage from the Riposte.

There is no form of personal spell shield that can be used against a Riposte Strike.

The projectile weapons skills, Bow, Crossbow, Thrown Weapons and Firearms, cannot be used to learn the Riposte skill and the Riposte skill cannot be used with these weapons.

Certain attacks have an "Unparriable" portion to their tagline Those attacks cannot be Parried or Blocked, but they can be Dodged or Evaded.

The player may purchase this skill once after gaining four (4) levels of the Weapon Damage skill and other prerequisites. They may then purchase this skill each time they gain an additional four (4) levels of the Weapon Damage skill. Thus, it is possible for a player with Weapon Damage +13 to have 3.