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Old 11-22-2013, 04:03 PM   #3
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Default Re: Appropriate names for small damage scales

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
GURPS 4e introduced such concepts as D-scale, C-scale, and M-scale, for 10s, 100s, or 1,000s of hp. It's a pretty obvious variant to reverse this, so Bunnies and Burrows might be played on 1/10 scale, War of the Tin Soldiers on 1/100 scale, and For Queen and Hive on 1/1,000 scale, but I'm puzzling how to name them.

The standard metric version would be d-scale for 1/10, c-scale for 1/100, and m-scale for 1/1,000. That's obviously confusing, and in any case GURPS didn't use the metric scale for larger (which would be dk-scale, h-scale, and k-scale), but I'm not aware of any other reasonably well-established naming conventions (I could use HO-scale for 1:87, but let's not...).

Thoughts?
Just throwing this out to get the conversation started:
pert-scale (per ten) for 1/10, perc-scale (per cent) for 1/100, and perm-scale (per mil) for 1/1000
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