4E's hit point philosophy

jacobmuller · 07-11-2013, 04:36 AM

You are not alone:D
Pyramid #3/34 HP and Weight: use square root for vehicles*. There's also Taming Explosions.
#3/37 had interesting articles too, eg Armor & Volume: high %age armor means lower surface area, hence higher DR; and Square Root of Destruction: basing energy weapons on square root, no benefit to handhelds but ship mounted become useful.
Can't remember which Pyramid has the reduced WM vs high SMs table... But the Pyramid articles allow age-of-sail to work better.

*You could use it for living beings but then you'd have horses you'd need antitank weapons to stop and dragons/ dinosaurs... nuke 'em from orbit?

07-11-2013, 04:36 AM	#9
jacobmuller Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Not in your time zone:D	Re: 4E's hit point philosophy You are not alone:D Pyramid #3/34 HP and Weight: use square root for vehicles. There's also Taming Explosions. #3/37 had interesting articles too, eg Armor & Volume: high %age armor means lower surface area, hence higher DR; and Square Root of Destruction: basing energy weapons on square root, no benefit to handhelds but ship mounted become useful. Can't remember which Pyramid has the reduced WM vs high SMs table... But the Pyramid articles allow age-of-sail to work better. You could use it for living beings but then you'd have horses you'd need antitank weapons to stop and dragons/ dinosaurs... nuke 'em from orbit? __________________ "Sanity is a bourgeois meme." Exegeek PS sorry I'm a Parthian shootist: shiftwork + out of country = not here when you are:/ It's all in the reflexes Last edited by jacobmuller; 07-11-2013 at 05:02 AM.

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