Should Plate Armor be Harder to Penetrate?

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by mhd

Even at 15 it fails the basic premise of the thread, as you're still able to cut through plate -- even without a Lakota katana.

Oh, you might also adjust the ST damage tables, but for example if you're using Know Your Own Strength, a ST of 15 is a BL of 63, and it's pretty reasonable that being 3x as strong matters..

As a way to differentiate ST without +1 damage per level, one easy option is to steal from d20: say, basic damage goes up at odd-numbered values, but all melee weapon min ST values are even numbers.

[Ji ji]

Originally Posted by Sam Baughn

One solution I found when I was trying to cook up some house rules for ST was to increase either swing or thrust at each level, not both. That way every level of ST offered more damage, but you could have as little as half the increase seen in the current rules for the same range of scores.

It’s an interesting idea.

[Dustin]

Originally Posted by Sam Baughn

One solution I found when I was trying to cook up some house rules for ST was to increase either swing or thrust at each level, not both. That way every level of ST offered more damage, but you could have as little as half the increase seen in the current rules for the same range of scores.

I did the same thing, with the OP's problem in mind. Every 3 ST bumped thrust damage by +1 and swing damage by +2. Here's a writeup.