From: Graeme A Lindsell (gal502@cscgpo.anu.edu.au)
Date: Sat 12 Jun 1993 - 20:13:13 EEST
A few comments on OJ's last comments:
i) liked the RQIV damage bonus table. I think RQIII, like a lot
of games, underestimates the importance of size and strength in
combat. With the new table the difference between Siz 10 Str 11
(say an average 55 kg 165 cm/5'6" woman) and Siz 18 Str 18 (say a
typical 125kg 200cm/6'7" viking beserk) is 1 Siz SR and +3 damage.
A fair edge, yes; but in the real world I think the beserk would
have more than an edge: I think he would almost always win, unless
there was a great discrepancy in skill or equipment.
If you want just straight damage bonuses, I think take them off
the new (RQIV 2.0 Draft) table =. My GM liked the new table so much
that he put them right into our current campaign and recalculated
all the damage modifiers.
ii) The new "POWless" skill modifier tables: these seem to make
Int and Dex even more important (bit like GURPS :-)). I not saying
that they aren't important, but they are important enough as is. I
wouldn't mind seeing POW left in as a modifier of the Magic skills
group: I don't see it a too much strain to alter one category of skills
(and usually only three for non-sorcerers) with POW changes. I
suggest:
Magic: INT + POW - 20 or INT - 10
I've never seen Dex having that big an effect on magic.
iii) The effects of fatigue: I really think the current RQIV modifiers
are a very big mistake, for reasons I have stated before. You said
that in your sparring experience fatigue makes you make sloppy
mistakes: are these "hey, I missed but should have hit" or "hey, I
just hit myself for max damage"? The current fatigue modifier increase
the chance of both results _equally_!!! A straight reduction of chance
of success gives the first result; the modifier to the roll gives the
second. The RQIV draft rules afflict a fatigued fighter with bad luck.
I think Carl Fink said this was a feature, not a bug: I think
it is the most dangerous bug you could possibly introduce into the
system.
All of this IMHO, of course.
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