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- From: skinner@fuzzy.stdavids.picker.com (Andy Skinner)
- Subject: Re: FUDGE damage and scale
- In-Reply-To: sos@oz.plymouth.edu's message of Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:35:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.173529.25095@oz.plymouth.edu> sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan) writes:
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- Yes, it is too complicated, I agree. I don't yet see what we can do
- about it, though, except go to a subjective system. ("Hmm, the giant
- hits you - you're incapacitated. Let's see, the pixie does a critical
- success hit to the giant? Alright, you scratched him.")
-
- Jay Doane and I have both suggested a combination system, where the damage is
- figured objectively, scale and all, but total wounds are accumulated
- subjectively. That way you don't have to add up fractions, since wounds
- aren't accumulated numerically. I think that what you need are:
- 1) all the normal strength, armor, weapon, and rolled degree parts that go
- into damage for a single blow
- 2) scale, to multiply damage
- 3) constitution (or something) some way of saying how well you stand up with
- the wounds you've got. It would be nice to have one word that
- reflects your current condition, though.
-
- Steffan:
- ... This would mean that 1/2
- scale (by human standards) creature couldn't hurt a 2x scale (by human
- standards) creature at all, except on critical success. ...
-
- I would like Pippin to still be able to kill the troll. If each scale holds
- enough variation that a hobbit is low human scale (I think that is what
- you have in your example, though I don't know if I agree) and a troll is either
- high human scale or (low?) scale 2, you could do it. If a hobbit is 1/2
- scale and a troll is 2 scale, there may be problems. On the other hand, the
- troll might be 2 scale to the hobbit. You'd have to have a list of what
- creatures were what scale to what creatures. I think I like more scales,
- but accumulated subjectively so you don't have to add fractions.
-
- andy
-