Dropped Wpns

[Scott Adams]

At 06:46 AM 10/16/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Hiya.
>
>> > Burton seems to rule that any failure that has double dice is a fumble.
>We
>> > ruled for a time. A few years ago we had a fumble rule that any roll
>over
>> > 95+EL/2, before any modifiers, was a fumble. Are there any other
>thoughts
>> > on how to implement fumbles in p&p? And what are the consequences? Lose
>one
>> > phase, lose weapon, or what.
>>
>> I like the doubles rule since it's quick and requires no math.  The
>> chance of failure already has the EL factored in anyways.
>
>    Well, what I've always done when running P&P only really use "fumbles"
>as a dramatic effect.  And when I say fumble, I'm talking any roll...not
>just on combat.  Someone who, for example, is playing a shaman; and that
>shaman is in combat and attempts to hit some parasitic-like creature off a
>pary member...and rolls 100.  I look at the situation and say, "Well, I
>guess you crack her one if you hit here; roll to hit her on BL 0".  Then the
>player rolls, oh, lets say a 02.  BAM!!  Right in the noggin.  She lives,
>and the battle is over.  So, the same shaman, who's feeling rather bad about
>that whole bonk-on-the-head thing casts some cure spell.  Only to get...100.
>Hmmm.  Needless to say, the shaman would probably wonder off on his own,
>away from the party, and (knowing his luck) run into some fire demon that
>immolates him in 6 seconds flat.
>
>(ATTN: Tim -->  ;-P  )
>
>    In short, I treat 99-100 as "especially bad" failures.  Most of the time
>the resulting outcome is common sense (as in the shaman above hitting the
>party member in the head...lucky she had a helmet!).  If nothing leaps to
>mind when someone rolls 99-100, then I just treat is as 'a real bad roll',
>but noting imediately "fumble-like".

I've done similar but with all skills.  Like your trying to carous a person or
speak
in a tongue your not sure or fluent in.  A bad fumble (say 100) would probably
cause the crowd your trying to calm to run you over as you insult their entire
clan :)


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