Slams: My Horse Keeps Falling Down?

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Originally Posted by ravenfish

If you're looking for something that's "dramatically correct", you could do a lot worse than the slam rules in Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game mentioned upthread. "Thrust Damage -2 + speed modifier on Size/Speed/Range table" means that a significantly stronger slammer will generally stay on its feet, along with it being easier to compute on the fly.

It also adds the SM modifiers to Slams, so larger (and thus "meatier") foes do hit harder.