09-06-2012, 11:02 AM | #11 | |
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Is ST 20 enough? For Goliath was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass; and the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. Not to mention the rest of his gear, helmet and greaves and target of brass. On the other hand, one bearing a shield went before him. No doubt Goliath was right on the edge of an Encumbrance category and didn't want that extra weight until it became necessary. |
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09-06-2012, 11:10 AM | #12 |
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Re: Slam Damage is Very Weak
David also only needs to take 4 damage before being launched one yard due to knockback from damage, making a DX roll to stay standing, and generally being pretty unhappy with his life (and the Major Wound roll, and the 1/2 Move and Dodge).
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09-06-2012, 12:19 PM | #13 | |
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09-06-2012, 08:21 PM | #14 |
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This is correct, though now I'd like to know what Goliath would look like in GURPS terms.
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09-06-2012, 08:48 PM | #15 | |
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....says that a shekel is 0.025 lbs. that measn his coat of "mail" (probablyu scale or lamellar) is 125lbs and his spearhead weighs 15 lbs. Then..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath#Goliath.27s_height ...makes him either 6'9 or 9' 9. For the weight of the armor I'd make him the 9 foot +. A simple squaring of Goliath's height increase makes him ST 23 (as a minimum). For that ST anything less than c.200lbs of gear is Light Encimbrance.
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09-06-2012, 09:17 PM | #16 |
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09-07-2012, 03:57 AM | #17 |
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09-07-2012, 04:13 AM | #18 |
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Re: Slam Damage is Very Weak
I've wondered this before, but if you have the Move and SM to hit like a bullet... shouldn't there be a point when your slam counts as some kind of piercing damage? Especially if you're slamming head first with a pointy helmet.
Now imagine a human sized hero that can shrink to bullet size and retain their mass and damage and HP and all that, and can move towards a target at the velocity of a bullet. Is this still just "crushing" damaging? If so, what would it take for them to make these sorts of slams impaling or piercing? And isn't any cutting damage just the result of "crushing" where one dimension is appropriately thin enough relative to the other dimension and the target to count as a cut?
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09-07-2012, 04:30 AM | #20 |
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Thanks, I'd missed that, that's really helpful!
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