Dagger by ST

[TippetsTX]

Originally Posted by Shostak

à la GURPS.

Actually, I was trying highlight how the TFT weapons table differs from GURPS. I'm OK that TFT uses a derived, but not direct, mapping between weapon damage and ST.

And by "modified by" I was referring to a fairly common house-rule that grants damage bonuses when the character's ST exceeds the minimum required by a particular threshold (usually 2 or 3 points).

[EKB]

Originally Posted by David Bofinger

I don't understand this statement. It seems to me we can divide weapons broadly into three categories:

• Weapons whose damage depends on ST: daggers in HTH, unarmed attacks, clubs, mauls
• Weapon families with fixed damage independent of ST for any particular weapon, though weapons exist with a range of ST requirements and damages: swords, bows, crossbows, axes, maces, pole weapons.
• Weapons with only one ST requirement and damage: All the peculiar weapons.

So I would put bows in the same category as swords, not the same category as clubs.

I use the following table for damage based on ST
ST 1-4 - 1d-5
ST 5-8 - 1d-4
ST 9-12 - 1d-3
ST 13-16 - 1d-2
ST 17-20 - 1d-1 (optional: ST 19-20 - 2d-4)
ST 21-28 - 2d-3
ST 29-45 - 2d-2
ST 46-57 - 3d-3
+12 ST - +(1d-1)

For melee and thrown weapons in the second and third categories, I use +1 damage for every +4 ST above the required minimum, with points of ST above ST 20 counting half and points above ST 30 counting one-third. It's usually better to use a weapon with an higher required ST if one is available.

[hcobb]

Note that the same club doesn't do more or less damage in other hands.
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