02-25-2023, 08:17 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Dallas, TX
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Caltrop damageq
Adventurers P. 113 tells us that Caltrops, once deployed onto the group, inflict thrust -3 impaling damage to those who step on them.
Why would the strength of the deployer affect their damage once deployed? |
02-25-2023, 10:49 PM | #2 | |
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Caltrop damageq
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"Each inflicts thrust-3 impaling damage – based on the victim’s ST – to a random foot."It's not the strength of the deploying, it's the ST of the victim, as a proxy for mass/weight. If you really wanted to, you could find some way to use the victim's actual weight-to-foot-size ratio and turn that into damage, but for those of us who just want a simple rule, using the victim's ST works okay. (This is similar to how DF handles falling damage, on Exploits page 67, although in that case it uses HP instead of ST. Using HP-as-ST for caltrops might make sense.) |
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02-26-2023, 12:56 AM | #3 | |
Join Date: Jun 2022
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Re: Caltrop damageq
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(So have the Barbarians and Knights in my games) In this case it's SM as a multiplier or divisor (in the case of negative SM). For caltrops, just treat is as ST 10 as the baseline and then use either HP or SM as the multiplier... |
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