12-11-2014, 03:38 PM | #11 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
There are balance problems with how linked damage works (2X points in one attack is almost always better than X points in each of two linked attacks), but making them cumulative against DR would be both a big hassle (for reasons gotten into above) and have its own balance problems (by using a cheap attack to start with, and then the expensive attack tacked on at the end).
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12-11-2014, 04:26 PM | #12 | ||
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
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12-11-2014, 04:29 PM | #13 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
I could of sworn that either high or ultra tech noted that blow- torches reduced the DR of a material the torch was held on but now I can't seem to find it. This was the effect I was talking about though it seems it either doesn't exist or is buried somewhere in a non intuitive spot in one of those books so either way it's understandable you didn't know what I meant heh.
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12-11-2014, 04:46 PM | #14 | |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
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"* Repeated impaling, piercing, and large piercing attacks against the same small spot (an area with SM 0 or less) lower DR at that specific point as if it were semi-ablative; repeated burning, corrosion, crushing, cutting, or huge piercing attacks at that same spot reduce DR at that point as if it were ablative. DR never falls below 1 for wood or 3 for brick, concrete, or stone." ? |
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12-11-2014, 04:49 PM | #15 | |
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Similarly, if I where adding the effects of cutting damage to a Corrosion Innate Attack (so, better wounding modifier most places, but especially against neck, veins and arteries, etc), Id call it a +40% enhancement, as Cutting attacks are 40% more expensive than crushing attacks. Its not a perfect way to estimate, just a place to start. Adjust as needed for your games balance.
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12-11-2014, 04:55 PM | #16 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
I think the Wounding mods are too fundamental to make them into Enhancements, but making the corrosive effect into a +100% Enhancement sounds about right to me.
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12-11-2014, 05:16 PM | #17 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
I thought I might of as well when I was looking for the rule but I remember being a note listed next the stats for a plasma torch. I'm starting to think it might of been from a 3rd edition book, maybe GURPS: Ogre.
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12-11-2014, 05:38 PM | #18 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
It can make sense to turn them into enhancements, but mostly as part of a more general reworking of the innate attack rules.
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12-13-2014, 06:07 PM | #19 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
Corrosion erodes DR at 1 point of DR lost per 5 points of Corrosion damage soaked by DR. (Basic Set, Page 61)
It sounds like you want the lead attack to be Corrosion, because it will reduce the DR the following attack will have to crack through.
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12-13-2014, 08:55 PM | #20 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
No, he WANTS xd Corrosion and xd Cutting to not be less good at penetration than 2xd of either, and we've explained why that doesn't work.
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