10-03-2020, 08:05 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Pacheco, California
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Octopus vs starting human in HTH
Standard ITL 82 octopus vs a starting human in HTH
The human is ST 9, DX 12(10), IQ 9, Dagger Expertise, Very Fine Dagger, leather armor. The Octopus does 1.4 points a turn on average and wins the fight in six turns. The human does four points of damage a turn on average and wins the fight in five turns.
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10-03-2020, 08:31 AM | #2 | |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
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Re: Octopus vs starting human in HTH
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I'm not quite sure how you calculated the average damage for a turn by the PC. His base damage with a dagger is d6, +1 for HTH, +1 for expertise and +2 for very fine dagger, so on average 7.5. Multiply by 50% chance to hit and I get 3.75 hits. Close to four, of course, but not quite four. |
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10-03-2020, 08:47 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: North Texas
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Re: Octopus vs starting human in HTH
The way I see it, an octopus engaged in HTH can simultaneously pin, strangle and stab a humanoid figure. The outcome should be a forgone conclusion.
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10-03-2020, 09:56 AM | #5 | |
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Location: Pacheco, California
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Re: Octopus vs starting human in HTH
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ST 9 fist is 1d-3, dagger in HTH is +3, +2 for very fine, +1 for expertise, -2 damage for tough skin.
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10-03-2020, 10:14 AM | #6 | |
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: North Texas
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Re: Octopus vs starting human in HTH
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https://youtu.be/lRrkaLTVHrs Now picture one three times larger with 4 times the ST of a human.
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10-03-2020, 10:26 AM | #7 |
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
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Re: Octopus vs starting human in HTH
[QUOTE=TippetsTX;2346742]Yeah, good luck with that.
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10-03-2020, 11:43 AM | #8 |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
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10-03-2020, 04:32 PM | #10 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Octopus vs starting human in HTH
The octopus acts first and can usually successfully disengage from HTH, or pin the human, though bringing up the Pin rules and Unarmed Combat brings us back to how the pinning rules have issues (and my house rule fix for that), especially with Unarmed Combat talent involved.
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