08-27-2018, 12:02 AM | #1 |
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Withstanding Car Hit Super effect
I typical comic book feat of a truck running down the road and a super steps out and take the hit, head on. When he does the super maybe slides back a little [for a effect], as we digs into the ground, and the front of the truck is shattered, as well as the driver odds are. Like hitting a unmoving tree.
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08-27-2018, 06:38 AM | #2 |
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Re: Withstanding Car Hit Super effect
I'd just call it a slam. The brick is soaking the slam damage his takes with his DR.
As the forum likes to say, the slam rules are a little wonky, so you might want to tweak them. For instance, if the super is just an immovable object and has low HP for some reason, you might just calculate the damage from the vehicle using its own HP against it. All that front-end-crumpling energy is coming from the vehicle, after all. Again sticking with the RAW, if you want to punch a vehicle hard enough to stop it, then see the Knockback rules. Subtract the Knockback from the vehicle's move. One yard per second is 2 mph, and 8 points of damage is one hex of Knockback, so stopping a 30 mph truck is going to call for 120 points of basic damage. Not that the truck is going to survive such a punch anyway. But then, if you're expecting the RAW to be (a) a perfect simulation of Newtonian mechanics while also expecting (b) four-color superhero stunt cliches to be covered by actual laws of physics, then there's really not much point in worrying about how "realistic" the RAW results actually are. If you want Supes to stand in front of cars to stop them, then just say he can do that. If you like tinkering with mechanics, feel free to adjust the equations to get the results you want given your character build that "should" be able to do such a thing. Or just take the RAW as it is (acknowledged imperfections and all) and just work that backward to figure out much much ST / DR / HP you need to do the job. Last edited by Anaraxes; 08-27-2018 at 10:34 AM. |
08-27-2018, 07:10 AM | #3 |
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Re: Withstanding Car Hit Super effect
Super ST can be used to resist knockback, so long as you have time to brace for impact. You'll still need either DR or IT:DR to shrug off injury, though.
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Re: Withstanding Car Hit Super effect
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If a ST 55 pickup truck is driving at highway speeds, say move 33 (66 mph), it will slam a super for 18d damage. Now, Pink, with her ST of 735 isn't even going to notice the knockback from the 63 average points of damage the truck will inflict. Nor will any super with a ST of 66 or higher. If Gold & Appel, Inc had made the truck, it would have Sumo Wrestling at DX+2 or higher, and would inflict 18d+36, or 28d+1. That's 99 points of damage (on average), and would require a ST of 102 to ignore the knockback. If, instead, we co-opt the slam rules from Dungeon Fantasy, the ST 55 truck, moving 33, would inflict 18d-2 against the super, and our numbers fall in alignment (close enough) with the numbers above. As for stopping the truck, as the vehicle didn't inflict enough damage to move the super a single hex, I would rule that it stopped. Comic book physics and all of that. I would also allow the Super to punch the truck as it hit (assuming they took a wait maneuver), and add that damage to their slam damage to determine if they or the vehicle needs to fall down. If the vehicle falls down, I would call that a stall out, regardless if the damage was enough to disable it. Quote:
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Well, the average damage for a truck going 60, as opposed to 66 would be 56 points of damage. So, that much DR. I would say you'd need enough TK to lift the truck (with an Lwt. of 2.2) off the ground. That could be accomplished with a TK of 61 for Heavy Encumbrance (back-of-the-envelope calculations, could be off). Last edited by Mark Skarr; 08-27-2018 at 01:25 PM. Reason: Left out the other answers . . .. |
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08-27-2018, 01:41 PM | #5 |
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Re: Withstanding Car Hit Super effect
Immunity to Knockback [10]
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08-27-2018, 01:46 PM | #6 |
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08-27-2018, 03:31 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Withstanding Car Hit Super effect
I've never been a fan of the "Immunity to X" as an answer to something that is caused by damage inflicted. And, I would go so far as to say that "Resistant to Knockback (Immunity)" is a deliberate abuse of the rule, as Resistant says:
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If you're a brick super, you should be spending points on ST. And ST is how you soak knockback. I'd really like to see LogST get a new lease on life as a Power-Ups book to help Bricks with their point inequity among the super types. |
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08-27-2018, 11:32 PM | #8 | |
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08-28-2018, 11:47 AM | #9 |
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Re: Withstanding Car Hit Super effect
The houserules I have used for supers have always included a global double knockback effect: Normal attacks get double knockback and attacks which don't normally cause knockback cause normal knockback. I also simplify the knockback rules because they come up so much. Each character gets a "knockback threshold" based on their HP (4 is average) and every increment of that much damage produces 1 hex of knockback. "mooks" automatically make the roll to stay on their feet at 1 hex of knockback and fail otherwise.
To offset this, I allow an "Increased density" leveled advantage. It costs 1 point per level and each level reduces knockback on every attack by 1 hex. Starting weight is multiplied by increased density level. There is a special +50% modifier available which allows the knockback decrease without the increased weight. In practice, at high power levels, most heroes take a few levels. Civilians go flying when hit hard. A bricks can quickly take a car hit, but not necessarily a truck. I have found that it really helps the world feel like a slightly silly comic book. (If that's not the feel you want, modify to suit your needs) |
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