Cover mechanics - Melee

TrollishMcTroll · 01-22-2020, 02:14 PM

Aside from the rules for crouching down behind corpses, I am not finding any cover mechanics... though I will admit I am not 100% immersed in the rules yet. I may have just missed them.

I know it would be easy to come up with some house rules, but is there anything official about using say... a tree, boulder, wall, collapsed building, etc for cover?

Skarg · 01-22-2020, 02:51 PM

There are some on ITL page 122, which may serve as guidelines for a GM to make more for whatever situation. The optional rules for targetting specific body parts on a target on ITL pages 120-121 might also help.

TippetsTX · 01-22-2020, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skarg

There are some on ITL page 122, which may serve as guidelines for a GM to make more for whatever situation. The optional rules for targetting specific body parts on a target on ITL pages 120-121 might also help.

I use the optional 'aimed shot' rules as a guide as well. Based on those, I extrapolated the following...

Minimal cover (no more than 30%) is -2 DX
Partial/half cover is -4 DX
Heavy cover (70 to 90%) is -6 DX

For full cover use a lightning bolt.
;)

TrollishMcTroll · 01-22-2020, 04:00 PM

Thanks for the responses. I'll look into the targeted attacks and if that doesn't work will go with something similar to @Skarg's post.

larsdangly · 01-22-2020, 04:08 PM

Welcome to the fold!

If you would like to be maximally guided by the RAW but the situation is not similar to the rules for crouching behind a body, I think you are best off specifying what body part is showing and then applying the optional aimed shot rules.

01-22-2020, 02:14 PM	#1
TrollishMcTroll Join Date: Mar 2019	Cover mechanics - Melee Aside from the rules for crouching down behind corpses, I am not finding any cover mechanics... though I will admit I am not 100% immersed in the rules yet. I may have just missed them. I know it would be easy to come up with some house rules, but is there anything official about using say... a tree, boulder, wall, collapsed building, etc for cover?

01-22-2020, 02:51 PM	#2
Skarg Join Date: May 2015	Re: Cover mechanics - Melee There are some on ITL page 122, which may serve as guidelines for a GM to make more for whatever situation. The optional rules for targetting specific body parts on a target on ITL pages 120-121 might also help.

01-22-2020, 04:00 PM	#4
TrollishMcTroll Join Date: Mar 2019	Re: Cover mechanics - Melee Thanks for the responses. I'll look into the targeted attacks and if that doesn't work will go with something similar to @Skarg's post.

01-22-2020, 04:08 PM	#5
larsdangly Join Date: Dec 2017	Re: Cover mechanics - Melee Welcome to the fold! If you would like to be maximally guided by the RAW but the situation is not similar to the rules for crouching behind a body, I think you are best off specifying what body part is showing and then applying the optional aimed shot rules.