01-12-2020, 08:42 PM | #31 | |
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Re: Bow ST for range and damage clarification
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* Though Spider-Man also has advantages like Clinging that make it a moot point in his specific case.
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01-15-2020, 12:11 AM | #32 | ||
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Re: Bow ST for range and damage clarification
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I don't know if it might be related to collision damage somehow with the HP as proxy for mass... except maybe some kind of inherent +1 to velocity to create 'damage' even when immobile due to resisting gravity's attempt to overcome your inertia. Quote:
But to someone of his strength, that's probably less fatiguing than it is for a normal human to simply stand upright unencumbered. It's probably the effort it takes us to hold a paperclip in our palm... At that level he's probably regenerating his energy faster than he's expending it, just like we are, which is why our hand would never get fatigued by that paperclip and force us to drop it. Not because the paperclip isn't "attacking" our crip (it is), just that it's so minor compared to our metabolic recovery levels. Last edited by Plane; 01-15-2020 at 12:14 AM. |
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01-15-2020, 04:17 AM | #33 | |
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Re: Bow ST for range and damage clarification
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Douglas Cole's "Deadly Spring" gets into the physics of how much damage a given bow/arrow combo should do wrt to firearms and is a very good variant. |
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01-15-2020, 04:28 AM | #34 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Re: Bow ST for range and damage clarification
FWIW, many critters with exoskeletons have hydrostatic skeletons/joints which allow them to hang onto walls, webs, etc. without expending energy. Just assume that Peter Parker got that particular spider superpower along with his wall-crawling abilities.
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01-18-2020, 03:18 PM | #35 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: Bow ST for range and damage clarification
Makes sense... do we have hydrostatic skeletons/joints in GURPS terms though?
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01-18-2020, 04:27 PM | #36 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Bow ST for range and damage clarification
There's also the minor factor of being a hundred times stronger than human, making it about as fatiguing as carrying a 2 lb weight.
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01-19-2020, 08:06 AM | #37 | |
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Re: Bow ST for range and damage clarification
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I just figure it's not that there isn't a fatigue factor, just that the regen is faster. |
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01-20-2020, 02:09 AM | #38 | |
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Re: Bow ST for range and damage clarification
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As long as the item isnt so large it requires you to exert effort to grip it you probably do it a lot more often than you think... how much does a cell phone in a case weigh? People carry those around for hours at a time without muscle fatigue. Its not just the weight, its also the difficulty or ease to hold it in a natural position, the theory being that Spiderman is not actually exerting effort to grip the surface so its like wearing a light weight on your arm all day and going about your business. Once you got used to the change in balance I doubt you would notice it at all. Even if he is exerting force somehow its still the hand in its natural state and doesnt require some odd contortion of the joints to work, I see this like carrying some heavy object that is designed to be held and weighing a couple pounds like say a small pistol or a work out weight... you would be able to do that for a really long time before you were forced to change hands. Back to the heavy Cell phone... Im sure you could carry a 2lbs cell phone all day if thats how much they had to weigh to work, you wouldnt notice it much. This is also a really theoretical discussion because we are talking about a "Super" who has gained 10x or more strength with no appreciable change in mass or volume of muscle. "The muscles just work better"... therefore the rules of normal need not apply. |
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01-23-2020, 11:03 AM | #39 | |
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Re: Bow ST for range and damage clarification
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Adhesion/claws don't explain how the elbow holds together and the shoulder holds together. That could either be explained by muscular effort, or by allowing oneself to stretch out to the point where ligaments are holding the tissue together. Relying on ligaments instead of muscle for posture is lower-energy, like how the iliofemoral ligament allows standing with less energy than relying on hip flexor muscles. So I could see some certain postures which shift stress from muscles to ligaments as consuming less AP. There might be gradual deformation (stretching) of ligaments over time if relied on though... though it might be weight that matters more than time. Not sure how to deal with that. Maybe treat ligaments as some kind of HT-like DR against AP loss from load-bearing? |
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