From: Wayne Shaw (shadow@qedbbs.com)
Date: Sat 17 Jul 1993 - 13:40:16 EEST
burt@ptltd.com (Burton Choinski) writes:
> I plan to use a +2 = 1d3 conversion. Thus, a creature with a +10 bonus
> rolls 5d3. Easy to remember, and it keeps some randomeness. I also plan
> to allow my players (YES! I convinced them to go this way! I can also
> walk on water in my spare moments...:) to substitute 1d3 for any or all
> +2 (or -2) values. So, one person might want to just use his pure +4,
> while another might want 1d3+2, and another might want +2d3.
Personally, I think I'd just go +1, +1D3, +1D6, +1D6+1, +1D6+1D3, +2D6
and so on, myself.
>
> Crit Slashed GS = max(2d6) +2d6 = 12+2d6, or about 19 hits...that will burn
> just about anyone in my book.
But the current rules don't agree with you. To kill an average human
(SIZ 13, CON 11) under the current rules, requires at least 24 points of
damage to do it outright no matter WHERE you do it. Note that taking
double or event triple in the head or abdomen no longer has any immediate
effect on your life (bleeding is another story, but at best that's not
immediate and isn't even certain to happen).
>
> Not lazy, we just hated the "limb-fest" the melee table has. We just
> use the missle table for both.
<Shrug>. At least for swinging weapons, I never felt the idea that an
awful lot of hits would go into the limbs was a flaw.
>
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