05-18-2012, 08:54 PM | #11 | |||
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Re: Surprise Rules for Animals
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05-18-2012, 09:00 PM | #12 |
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Re: Surprise Rules for Animals
Why can't you?
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05-18-2012, 09:04 PM | #13 | |
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Re: Surprise Rules for Animals
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The animals in Basic Set are very incomplete. Horses, for example, would probably benefit from using Lifting ST in place of some of their ST. |
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05-18-2012, 09:12 PM | #14 |
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Re: Surprise Rules for Animals
I would not give every animal combat reflexes but it is not just for the predators. Some predators like snakes I would not give it to.
Some prey animals like pretty much everyone in the deer family (not scientific classification but including gazzelle, antelope, even moose) however would get it. Basically are they used to being ambushed? are they known for being skittish? then yes. |
05-19-2012, 04:33 AM | #16 |
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Re: Surprise Rules for Animals
Wouldn't that be a high Basic Speed and PER? after all, poachers with floodlights are taking advantage of a deers lack of Combat Reflexes when they go for the same reaction unlucky drivers see when they get a "Deer in the Headlights".
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05-19-2012, 04:40 AM | #17 |
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Re: Surprise Rules for Animals
Because most non-predators freeze when they are not in a herd and taken by surprise.
PER based IQ rolls always made more sense to me anyways - the survivalist with IQ 10 PER 12 shouldn't be less equipped to deal with surprise than the hacker with IQ 12. Even worse: the Absent Minded genius troupe with IQ 15 that bought PER down to 10.
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05-19-2012, 04:50 AM | #18 | |
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Re: Surprise Rules for Animals
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I offered the Attribute Substitution because some people were looking for a way to change things. |
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05-19-2012, 05:10 AM | #19 | |
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Re: Surprise Rules for Animals
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05-19-2012, 07:22 AM | #20 |
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Re: Surprise Rules for Animals
However about basing it on the higher of IQ/Per if both are <=10, the lower of the two if both are >=10, or the average if they are either side of 10?
Too long-winded to remember? |
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