[Runequest] [SPAM] Re: Ow being hit with a sword hurts

[Styopa]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Tony <postmaster at runequest.za.org> wrote:

> steve at limitedchaos.com wrote:
> > Aside from being a nice round number, there is no great
> > specialness to 5. It could be 3, it could be 8. Perhaps 4 is best. Or it
> > could be a two degree increase in dice of damage. See my previous ideas
> of
> > using a linear roll for all weapons.
> Perhaps thats why the harnmaster lads went for the special success being
> every success which is a multiple of 5. the specialness of 5 I reckon
> comes from our fingers, if we had four fingers per hand then four would be
> sprcial:)
>
> Actually no, their logic was that then there was no math involved in
modifications to hit.
Currently, If you have a 50% attack, your special is 1-10 and your crit is
what, 1-2? 1-3?  If you get a +15% to attack, your special is then 1-13, and
your crit is 1-3?

With harn, it's simpler - any roll ending in a 0 or 5 is a special (I think
that's the system).  So you don't need to calculate what is the result of
(20%*50)+(20%*modifier) at all....you just intrinsically have more 0's and
5's that you can reach and still be successful.

Quite clever, actually.
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