10-13-2017, 11:30 AM | #21 |
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Re: Pixie Weapon Damage
Or just use big weapons. Doesn't the new Fantasy Tech have giant anime/JRPG inspired weapons?
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10-13-2017, 11:56 AM | #22 |
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Re: Pixie Weapon Damage
I haven't read that one
I do admit I have a hard time imagining a 6in pixie wielding a 6ft quarterstaff at times, but I would allow it as a DM |
10-13-2017, 12:18 PM | #23 | |
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Re: Pixie Weapon Damage
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Super-strong-for-their-size DF pixies really ought to have approached weapon design differently than SM 0 ST 10 humans approach making scale model weapons for dolls. In my DF games this never came up, because Wither Limb and Create Fire don't care if you are SM -6, and being small and flying just means getting close enough to cast is easier. I don't recall any of the pixies even carrying a weapon. |
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10-13-2017, 12:25 PM | #24 |
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Re: Pixie Weapon Damage
Realistically, shorter arms should reduce in lower damage (total impact energy = force * distance, so lower swing/thrust distance = lower energy) and also interferes with wielding weapons anyway (total available torque is also dependent on arm length, and torque is more relevant to what you can wield than lifting ability), but all these effects should apply to unarmed attacks as well.
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10-13-2017, 12:34 PM | #25 | ||
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Having seen a kid with a fractured knuckle* from Pencil Fighting, I'd avoid the metal chopstick flick if I were you. * This is what got pencil fighting banned in one school I was in. Someone taking splinters to the eye (no serious damage) was what got it banned in another. |
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10-13-2017, 12:47 PM | #26 | |
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(Reading up on him, I had no idea he was created in 1942; much older than I thought.)
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10-13-2017, 12:51 PM | #27 | ||
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10-13-2017, 01:25 PM | #28 | |
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It's, why is the appropriately sized lever doing less damage unlevered attacks for Pixies. The 'work-around' is probably to use the Gulliver rules mentioned above (I haven't read them). |
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10-13-2017, 01:40 PM | #29 |
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Re: Pixie Weapon Damage
A pixie-scale staff isn't an appropriately-sized lever, for pixie-scale strength. Pixies at ST 4, or whatever (I can't remember the exact default ST for the template), are orders of magnitude stronger than a ST 10 human shrunk down to SM -6. So yes, this is exactly like the difference between being punched by an unlikely viscous and coordinated child versus being hit by a twig weilded by the same kid.
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10-13-2017, 03:12 PM | #30 |
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Re: Pixie Weapon Damage
There doesn't have to be a lever involved. A katar thrust, which amounts to a punch with a blade on the end, will do far less damage when wielded by a pixie than a bladeless punch made by that same pixie. Thia strikes me as failing a sanity check.
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