01-02-2020, 04:53 PM | #11 |
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: New England
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Re: No Love For Armour?
Compare TFT armor, which always stops at least some damage, to D&D armor, which stops all or nothing. That difference was a major selling point to my pals back in the late '70s/early '80s when we started playing TFT.
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01-02-2020, 05:03 PM | #12 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Pacheco, California
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Re: No Love For Armour?
Would you rather stop 2 hits with leather armor (-2 DX) or with an expert small shield (the other guy is at -1 DX)? Combine with an expert dagger and the other guy is at -2 DX. Finally combine expert defend with occult strike to negate his Fine Plate.
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01-03-2020, 04:19 AM | #13 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: London Uk, but originally from Scotland
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Re: No Love For Armour?
I'd far rather have the armour. The "expert" shield and dagger combo only work if you're ready; they don't protect you from the side or flanks, they don't protect from above, they don't protect you from a fall, or a swarm of bees or a multitude of other things. The armour is always "on", like those stone flesh rings you're so keen on.
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01-03-2020, 10:22 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: No Love For Armour?
There are good things about using the talents artfully to gain defensive bonuses in melee. But most characters I've seen with that sort of 'build' would have a high probability of getting wiped out in 1 turn by a garden variety archer (say, ST 10, DX 13(16), IQ 9, missile weapons III, horse bow). That archer would have little chance of doing a single point of damage to a figure in fine plate or with leather or mail and a large shield.
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01-03-2020, 11:04 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Pacheco, California
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Re: No Love For Armour?
Yes if you want to play at range you take a dumb hero and if you want to fight toe to toe you take a smart wizard.
ST 12, DX 11, IQ 9 Light Crossbow(2d+2 because your Goblin Pythoness branded your bolts; adjDX 14 for a shot per turn) Broadsword(2d), Small Shield(1), Dagger(1d-1) Crossbow, Knife, Missile Weapons III, Shield, Sword, Toughness I
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01-03-2020, 11:13 PM | #16 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: No Love For Armour?
I sort of wish I didn't feel somewhat morally obliged to keep responding to every time Henry mentions "Branded" crossbow bolts that surely they aren't intended to do the +1 damage he thinks they do, and the ability to even brand a bolt is also questionable.
Low-ST wizards who try to fight on the front lines tend to get shot, it seems to me. If only 1 in 300 of your population is a wizard, I'd hope almost none of them choose to become front-line warriors just to try to cheese the admittedly munchkiny staff abilities. |
01-04-2020, 10:22 AM | #17 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: No Love For Armour?
Agreed, but he's on his own journey with that one.
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01-05-2020, 01:34 PM | #18 |
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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Re: No Love For Armour?
Something else to consider… maybe it's not always true that a failed attack roll literally "missed". If the target was wearing armor, maybe it did connect, but just skittered off and failed to cause any damage.
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01-05-2020, 03:49 PM | #20 |
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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