From: David Cake (davidc@cs.uwa.edu.au)
Date: Sat 13 Mar 1993 - 05:54:04 EET
I think that daggers, etc, are plenty dangerous enough already, if you don't have armour. If you attack by complete surprise your chance to hit is really high, and your chance to impale is pretty high. If you are impaled by a dagger, and you don't have armour, you are in big trouble. A dagger 4.5 on average, doubled is 9. Nine points in the abdomen will incapacitate you, and may well put you into unconsciousness. You will bleed to death in a couple of minutes. That is planty lethal. If you want to make things more dangerous, maybe allow chances to hit from complete surprise to double, or automatically special. And bear in mind that magic, while it may help, can really hurt too. a bladesharped 4 dagger does 8.5 on average, plus 1d4 is 11 points. More than my points in any location, and more than double for most. Reall bad if no armour, and with impaling is 15.5. Beware the dagger wielder assassin with bladesharp 4 and 1d4 damage bonus.
The lethality of surprise attacks, without needing special rules for it, has always been one of my favourite things about RQ.
DAve Cake
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