From: Newton Hughes (C442196@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu)
Date: Sat 09 Oct 1993 - 23:09:42 EET
G. Fried asks about the Resistance Table: it seems to me that it was designed not so much to handle a narrow range of values, but that it was designed for characteristics like STR and SIZ, which double in scale with every 8 points. So if you have two giants, one SIZ 50 and the other SIZ 60, the bigger one is over twice as massive as the other, and the resistance table reflects this.
Maybe the designers intended that POW doubles every 8 points, too, while MPs increase linearly, just as SIZ doubles the creature's weight every 8 points, while damage mods and height increase linearly.
About the Zebra rider example being kicked around: the Opportunity Melee rule doesn't work here. If I recall correctly the Uroxi has DEX SR 4, and all opportunity melee does is allow him to disregard his SIZ SRM, leaving him swinging at SR 6, by which time the Zebra rider is past him. What's bizarre about the SR rules here is that whether the Uroxi gets his licks in depends on just how far away the Zebra rider was from him at the start of the round: had the Zebra rider started at 56 m away instead of 40, then the Uroxi would get to hit back (if the Zebra started at 48 m then the Uroxi could use oppor- tunity melee to hit him).
Newton
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