A Possible Combat Option

[Choinski, Burton]

You subtract ELx2 I thought.  So with only EL6 applicable to the combat
roll, you subtract 12 (instead of the pretty god-awful 24 at full power!).

I have no problem with increased wapon skill allowing for better hits, but I
think the Deadly hit mechanism needs to be tweaked a bit.  At high end
characters it can get petty gross.



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|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Sylverrs_ dragon [mailto:abnaric at HOTMAIL.COM]
|| Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 8:15 AM
|| To: POWERS-AND-PERILS at GEO.CITG.TUDELFT.NL
|| Subject: Re: A Possible Combat Option
||
||
|| The subtractor is only a -6 with the option instead of -12.
|| If the option
|| was used, the increased effective SB would not apply as an
|| increase to OCV.
|| You are correct. It would be devastating on deadly hits.
|| That is a potential
|| problem.
||
||
||
|| >From: "Choinski, Burton" <Burton.Choinski at MATRIXONE.COM>
|| >Reply-To: Powers and Perils Fantasy Roleplaying Game Mailing List
|| ><POWERS-AND-PERILS at GEO.CITG.TUDELFT.NL>
|| >To: POWERS-AND-PERILS at GEO.CITG.TUDELFT.NL
|| >Subject: Re: A Possible Combat Option
|| >Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:53:40 -0400
|| >
|| >||      My thought was to add a third option. I call it
|| >|| fighting aggressively
|| >|| for lack of a better term. In this mode, the individual is
|| >|| pressing the
|| >|| attack intent on maximum mayhem. The effect of this would be
|| >|| as follows:
|| >|| 1) One half of his EL rounded down will be used as his
|| >|| combat subtractor. If
|| >|| he is EL 12, he may subtract 6 instead of 12.
|| >|| 2) His EL divided by 4, rounded down, is ADDED to his SB
|| for all hit
|| >|| resolution, normal, shield, severe and deadly. If the EL 12
|| >|| person above had
|| >|| a SB of +2, while fighting aggressively it is effectively +5.
|| >|| 3) Where fatigue rules are being used (which I must greatly
|| >|| improve upon)
|| >|| the cost to fight aggressively would be DOUBLE the cost to
|| >|| fight offensively
|| >|| or defensively.
|| >
|| >That sounds fine when it comes to normal, shield and severe
|| hits, but on
|| >deadly hits it is WAY too much.  When you have a Warrior
|| humping around a
|| >+3
|| >SB normally, plus a +1 SB weapon, then adding another +3 SB
|| for agressive
|| >attacks -- rolling 8d10 on a deadly hit is a bit much.  And
|| they are very
|| >likely to get that deadly, given their -12 on the roll,
|| plus their OCV will
|| >be that much higher due to their SB.
|| >
|| >I think it's asking for min-maxing troubles.
|| >
|| >----------------------------------------
|| >Burton Choinski
|| >Principal Software Engineer, Quality Engineering
|| >email: burton.choinski at matrixone.com
|| >
|| >phone: 978-322-2135
|| >fax  : 978-452-5764
|| >
|| >MatrixOne, Inc.
|| >Two Executive Drive
|| >Chelmsford, Ma 01824
|| >www.matrixone.com
|| >
|| >The First in Intelligent Collaborative Commerce
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