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Originally Posted by ericthered
Ok, 31 yards feels way too far for a thrown shoe. particularly one thrown at a chest rather than an arc.
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It's 35 yards, 31 yards past you is because you were 4 yards away from me :) It's not 36 yards away since I backed up a yard.
I agree it does seem too far for chest-level, I would be fine with assuming that is when it's thrown in a 45 degree arc.
That should basically mandate targetting a hex (at +4, but hitting random targets within) and not any particular foe or body part. Or at least if you do, that kind of targetting should be harder than firing at it in a roughly straight line.
Arc-shooting should also not overshoot to the same degree if it misses.
Straight-line throwing (as you'd need to do in a long hallway with a low ceiling, for example) should definitely be shortened by some amount.
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Originally Posted by ericthered
Physics would suggest that it travels half of its max distance past the halfway point between the thrower and the target, or 15.5 yards past red (if we assume the highest point of the thrown arc is halfway between red and his target). That's still a little far for missing someone with a thrown shoe, but its not quite as ridiculous.
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I don't know if it's as easy as a 1/2 distance rule, wouldn't it be something like needing to calculate how much acceleration is applied downward throughout the travel time it takes to span the horizantal distance?
One aspect of arcs we'd need to account for is how they would be slower, since some of the potential force is being used to oppose gravity (giving it more float time) instead of being converted purely into horizantal force where there's an immediate drop.
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Originally Posted by ericthered
Red steps forward and evaluates for +2
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You narrow 5>4
Time for the other shoe to drop: I grab the other shoe from my armpit and ready it, and free-step 4>5 again.
Doing it a third time?