Basic, MA, LT: Combining Hit Locations

[jacobmuller]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Agreed on all counts, though rolling 5d6 with a couple of distinctive-colored d6 seems like it wouldn't be too bad.

You could do it with just 3 odd coloured dice with one roll covering the attack, random hit location, damage, low-tech option and martial arts option.
eg what you roll is where you hit (not the best solution), MoS is read as if the d in damage, a black die for low-tech and a red die for martial arts.

[the desire to minimise rolls is a personal quirk, however, I definitely like tying MoS to damage to avoid eg your rolling a 4 to hit and then rolling 0 damage, and your critical hit chart result is a damage multiple or armour divisor LOL. The rest is just sprinkles]

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by jacobmuller

You could do it with just 3 odd coloured dice with one roll covering the attack, random hit location, damage, low-tech option and martial arts option.
eg what you roll is where you hit (not the best solution), MoS is read as if the d in damage, a black die for low-tech and a red die for martial arts.

You could, but that makes what should be independent random values not be independent.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

You could, but that makes what should be independent random values not be independent.

Not particularly, outside of rolling crit 3s, you can have a normal hit with fully independent random values.

And even for crit 3s that is easily adjustable by making the 1s result be the more crit like results.

[DanHoward]

Critical hits are the best way to handle this.