04-17-2017, 08:03 AM | #11 | |
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Re: Can I grapple with Bite+arms in one attack?
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The way the rules are written, though, small mouths just basically get slapped with -1 DX and -1 damage per 2d of attack damage (-15% to Trained ST) per SM difference. The number of hands involved in a grapple was replaced by the new "halve it for control points." Note that Trained ST is zero at 7 size modifiers difference, halved at between 3 and 4. So a small dog or cat with SM -3 or -4 will be at -3 or -4 per 2d of damage - basically halved anyway.
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04-18-2017, 08:35 AM | #12 |
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Re: Can I grapple with Bite+arms in one attack?
I just redownloaded it to make certain this wasn't in an update, but "Bigger and Stronger" gives the larger character a +1 DX and +15% to TST, with no penalty to the smaller one, and that appears to be the only instance of "15%" in the document. Was the intent that there be both a penalty (to the smaller) and bonus (to the larger), that there be just the penalty, or that there be just the bonus (as it currently is)?
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04-18-2017, 10:18 AM | #13 | |
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Re: Can I grapple with Bite+arms in one attack?
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Might be a good case for a house rule, and the -1 per 2d and the 15% are the same thing, of course. The intent was to simplify by not having a double whammy, where not only is the big guy gifted with a bonus, but the little guy is ALSO hit with penalties. It would be interesting to have it reciprocal, but I wanted to avoid an instance of "recalculate everything for every pair of fighters." There's already too much recalc in the subsystem as it is; that's something I'd tweak harder in a second edition (and something I avoided in what is effectively its sequel: Dungeon Grappling for DnD)
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