05-06-2015, 01:42 PM | #1 |
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Dodge and Bombardment
Can I dodge Bombardment Area Attack as normal ranged attack?
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05-06-2015, 02:42 PM | #2 |
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Re: Dodge and Bombardment
No, it's an area attack, so you need to Retreat out of it.
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09-28-2017, 10:11 AM | #4 |
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Re: Dodge and Bombardment
Apologies for resurrecting something here, but...returning to GURPS after a while away, and was refreshing my memory on some of this stuff. In another forum post a while back (um...seven years ago...), I was questioning Area Attacks and options for dodging them, and asked if it was possible to set up an area attack that attacked people in the area individually and was then dodgeable like ordinary innate attacks. Folks responded that I should look at Bombardment as that was what I wanted.
It's somewhat unclear in the text, but I did kind of feel on rereading that it would be dodgeable - instead of being a true "area" effect it just "attacks" everyone in the area. I.E. Instead of being an "area effect" it has now become a collection of separate "attacks," which could theoretically be dodged. Here is the relevant forum post from that old discussion: http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...8&postcount=13 I might be misinterpreting something (and only getting -5% off for forcing the skill to roll at 14 and allowing the target to dodge maybe feels a little low...although it's also fairly in line with the later "blockable" limitation, which is worth 5%), but it feels possible that was the intent? Otherwise...I wonder if it might be reasonable to just create a "dodgable" limitation that's also worth -5% and apply it to regular Area of Effect stuff? Just looking for a way to create an area effect modifier whose only real benefit is that it allows you to simultaneously attack everything in the area - otherwise treating it just like they got attacked by regular ranged innate attacks. |
09-28-2017, 10:55 AM | #5 | |
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09-28-2017, 11:16 AM | #6 |
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Re: Dodge and Bombardment
Note that part of the reason people don't dodge bullets is because they're not really visible fast enough. It takes on the order of a half second to respond to an incoming threat and get out of its way. That's 150-500 yards, depending on the round.
Human visual resolution is about 1"/100 yards, which isn't enough to see a bullet unless it's designed to be seen. Dodging artillery is technically possible (typically visible at about a second out), though of limited value since the blast radius exceeds the distance you can move from a standing start by a lot. |
09-28-2017, 11:26 AM | #7 |
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Re: Dodge and Bombardment
Hrm...see, I was picturing more like a rain of fantasy game fireballs, or a rain of earth spears, or things like that - or at least, that's the attacks I'm kind of trying to model. Things where the attack is against everything in an area, but it matters how good you are at dodging. I.E. the big slow warrior can't get out of the way of the earth spear and just takes it and absorbs the blow, but the quick acrobatic monk sees it come in the air and dodges aside.
The way bombardment is modeled as stated here, it instead seems like it's more of a general probability - like was said, maybe intended for faster projectiles than are normally shown in a lot of fantasy games. The, say, lightning bolt heads for you or it doesn't, but if it does head properly for you, it's too fast and you can't get out of the way. One way is about the character's ability to dodge, the other is about the probability that a projectile heads for the character. I had thought that bombardment was actually both, but it seems like it is only the latter. Which I get, and is fine, but if that's the case, how do you model an attack that's slower and dodgeable but affects everything in an area, like the aforementioned earth spears, mana bolts, or what have you? Maybe it's just a matter of house ruling a -5% "can be dodged?" or something like that? Where the net benefit of your modifiers is just "you attack everything in region X, but only once per target?" - and they can still defend normally? Last edited by Sdrolion; 09-28-2017 at 11:31 AM. Reason: Futher clarification |
09-28-2017, 11:53 AM | #8 | |
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09-28-2017, 12:34 PM | #9 |
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Re: Dodge and Bombardment
It's probably a custom limitation to have an attack that can't be dodged normally be dodgeable, and likely more than -5% (assuming dodge is 2 lower than HT on average, I'd eyeball it as -20%, same as a HT-2 resistance roll).
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09-28-2017, 05:22 PM | #10 |
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Re: Dodge and Bombardment
Can be Blocked is only -5% so Dodge being no better sounds right to me.
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