07-05-2015, 01:00 AM | #11 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Knockback Questions
I don't think of knockback with a TL1-4 hand weapon as picking up the target and throwing it, as I agree that's not realistic physics. I think of it as "people standing up are tippy, and hitting them very hard may cause them to lose balance, recoil reflexively using their own legs, etc. Maybe more realistic would be having people get displaced semi-randomly based on hits, but I always thought the result of the existing (pre 4e) rules seemed to have nice results that were easy to apply. I've certainly seen people nearly fly across a room when fighting when they weren't even really being hit for damage (again not really mainly from the strength of their opponent, but because they're trying to stay standing and so backpeddle etc across the room).
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07-05-2015, 01:48 AM | #12 | |
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Re: Knockback Questions
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07-05-2015, 02:54 AM | #13 | |
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07-05-2015, 01:57 PM | #14 |
Join Date: Dec 2014
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Re: Knockback Questions
Another thing to remember is that knockback occurs within the turn, which means getting 8 yards of knockback means you are going back at 8 yards per second. You can't really stumble backwards at that speed. 2 yards of knockback, or 2 yards per second, could be represented by stumbling however. Anything above that feels more like they came off the ground.
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07-05-2015, 04:26 PM | #15 |
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Knockback Questions
This one. Also, momentum transfer is barely related to damage. A shove that does no damage transfers much more momentum than the impact of any weapon. At best there is a missing term involving the weapon mass.
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07-05-2015, 05:49 PM | #16 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Re: Knockback Questions
Though of course if you get out of the human mass range this can change. Hit a mouse with a baseball bat and it will go flying just fine.
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