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Originally Posted by Anthony

No, +10 = x10 means you multiply ST or MoS by 0.6 to get WP.

Ooh, that's an ugly number. It'd probably be easier to express that as "For every 3 points you succeed by, add +2 to your WP." That loses half of the resolution, though. "Multiply your MoS by 2. For every 3 points, add +1 to your WP" isn't too bad, and that's fairly easy to remember.

Originally Posted by Anthony

That's for fixed damage weapons, such as guns.

Okay, that makes much more sense. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Anthony

Effective ST is what you roll against.

That makes sense too now.

Originally Posted by Anthony

You can implement armor as a ST modifier, but it will involve (guess what) table lookup -- for example, DR 10 will reduce a 1d attack to zero (-infinity on a log scale), but will reduce a 6d-1 attack by only half (-3 on a +10 = x10 scale).

Ah, bummer. I was hoping that DR 7 (2d) would be ST 16 and that you could just subtract 16 from the ST of the attack. But it doesn't seem to check out. Weirdly enough (and I don't know if I stumbled across a weird coincidence), it seems like half of that ST works.

So, DR 7 is 2d, which is ST 16. Divide that by 2 for ST 8. Let's say the attack is 4d, which is ST 24. ST 24 - 8 is ST 16, which is 2d. And 4d - 2d = 2d. This works for 6d, which is ST 32. ST 32 - 8 is ST 24, which is 4d. And 6d - 2d is 4d. Going back down, let's say the attack is 2d, which is ST 16, of course. ST 16 - 8 = ST 8, which is 1d-4, which is neat because it still offers a small chance for damage to get through (though, that doesn't affect what we're doing here).

So, DR 28 is 8d, which is ST 40. Divide that by 2 for 20. You can tell this is already broken. If the attack is 8d, which is ST 40, then it's 40 - 20, which is 20, which is then 3d. But 8d would obviously stop 8d.

Then, I thought, what if 16 didn't turn into 8 from division? What if it's subtraction?

So, DR 28 is 8d, which is ST 40. ST 40 - 8 is ST 32. Let's say the attack is 11d, which is ST 52. ST 52 - 32 is ST 20, which is 3d. And 11d - 8d is 3d. It would mean converting DR to dice to ST and making it ST - 8, but that's not a big deal for an overhaul.

And I realized that you don't even have to do that. DR * 8/7 (~1.143) gives you the ST value.

DR 70 (20d) × 8/7 is ST 80. Let's say the attack is 30d, which is ST 128. ST 128 - 80 is ST 48, which is 10d. 30d - 20d is 10d.

DR 126 (36d) × 8/7 is ST 144. Let's say the attack is 36d, which is ST 152. ST 152 - 144 is 8, which is 1d-4.

Did I stumble upon a solution for DR? Or am I kidding myself?

If I did stumble upon a solution for DR, could this theoretically extend to all addition and subtraction? I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, but...