11-12-2009, 06:18 PM | #1 |
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Force Entry skill and "ST checks"
In the skill description for Force Entry it notes that development of the skill adds to your damage when trying to beat down a door. But it also mentions modifying your strength for associated ST checks. That brings up an interesting question. How do you do a ST check?
I mean, I know how to do an attribute check, but Strength has a greater potential of being much higher than DX and IQ. So Succeeding at a ST check is pretty darn easy for, say, a troll. And, obviously, it should be. Trolls are strong, after all. But there has to be a limit to what they can bash down via a ST check. So that leads to the 'real' question. What are the benchmarks for the penalties applied to a person's ST in relation to how difficult it is to knock in various door types?
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11-12-2009, 06:25 PM | #2 |
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Re: Force Entry skill and "ST checks"
On ST rolls: You roll 3d vs. ST, as for any other score, but this almost never stands alone. Usually, you only ever roll ST in a Contest with somebody else's ST or an object's HT or HP, depending on what technique or rule you're using. Thus, Forced Entry effectively gives you a small bonus in certain Contests with inanimate objects.
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11-12-2009, 06:26 PM | #3 |
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Re: Force Entry skill and "ST checks"
Doors and other barriers are generally labeled as "Requires ST-2 roll to force" or something similar. That's the sort of thing that Forced Entry helps with. And yes, an ogre with ST 22 will be able to easily force a door that requires a ST-8 roll, while a normal human wouldn't even have a chance. That's how it should work, which is why this sort of thing allows a roll against ST.
Also note that the rules for damaging objects (bending bars, etc.) found in Supers and DF call for a Quick Contest of ST (minus object's DR) vs. the object's HT. Again, a Forced Entry bonus would add to ST, here.
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11-12-2009, 07:42 PM | #4 |
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Rules that call for a Contest of ST vs. anything but ST and HP are usually ignored. It makes no sense to me that Pixie wrestlers can't strangle one another or beat another Pixie's weapon aside.
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11-12-2009, 08:03 PM | #6 |
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Re: Force Entry skill and "ST checks"
Well, that's what Extreme Scores (p. B349) is meant to address. I've always found it pretty easy to use in play, but YMMV.
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11-12-2009, 09:02 PM | #7 | |
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A ST 3 leprechaun is proportionately as strong to a ST 2 pixie as a ST 15 bruiser is to an average ST 10 person. With B349, it comes out equivalent to a ST 11 vs ST 10. I've yet to find a perfect system*, and doubt one is possible. I'm a mathochist, so I'll keep trying. * Perfect meaning that odds are based on proportional ST, math is quick and easy, and there aren't any glaring statistical quirks. A quirk of the system I proposed is that the odds of a tie changes somewhat awkwardly (12/8 is about three times as likely to tie than 11/7).
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11-12-2009, 09:08 PM | #9 |
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11-12-2009, 09:24 PM | #10 |
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Re: Force Entry skill and "ST checks"
That's why I tend to scale them directly like that (As it recommends to do with scores of 20+) for small numbers as well as large ones. Requires a tiny bit more math, but it seems more fair.
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