03-25-2012, 03:42 PM | #1 |
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Large Projectiles
Standard GURPS projectiles are typically pretty small--around SM -10 from the front. But what about an SM -2 boulder thrown by a giant (not Overhead, but in a low trajectory), or an SM +1 Naruto-style fireball sailing along the ground? It seems to me that such an Innate Attack should have some sort of limitation to reflect the fact that the user:
Maybe SM could be subtracted from attack rolls in forests and/or added to defense rolls all the time? But that still leaves the question of how much the limitation should cost. (Of course, if this has already been covered in a book I don't have, please feel free to enlighten me.) |
03-25-2012, 05:18 PM | #2 |
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Re: Large Projectiles
I there any specific reason you want to complicate things? I'm asking because from your post it seems to be more theoretical than an actual problem in your games.
Remember that the rules are still an abstraction not a physical exorcise. Anyway, to answer your actual questions. For bullets. People do not dodge the actual bullet so its size doesn't matter. They dodge the gun pointed at you. This is also why there are optional rule that outright forbid dodges against bullets unless it's within your perception range (See GURPS: Tactical Shooting). If you want the innate attacks to be more or less easy to dodge you could simply add a modifier that does exactly that. But in general and certainly based on your examples, I think it will cancel out. The fireball is big an visible (easy to notice and avoid) but really big (hard to get far enough away from). Same with the boulder (big, but slow). --- [edit ]Projectile size will matter if you can Parry the attack, but matters not for dodging. |
03-25-2012, 06:08 PM | #3 |
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Re: Large Projectiles
it matter in wither the attack should be cr, or some type of pi. but that not so much modifier bur choosing the right base ability.
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03-26-2012, 01:55 PM | #4 | ||
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Re: Large Projectiles
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As for the slowness of the projectile, it almost seems as if it should be based on Guided somehow, but without Concentration or redirection of the attack...or maybe not. |
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03-26-2012, 02:15 PM | #5 |
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Re: Large Projectiles
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03-26-2012, 02:23 PM | #6 |
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Re: Large Projectiles
Oh! Yes, exactly! But there doesn't seem to be a modifier that accounts for putting that on anything other than an Area Attack, Cone, or Explosion, and an Area Attack just doesn't match a Fireball that's moving horizontally.
Now that you've reminded me of this rule's existence, that Ally option is looking more desirable: Want a Fireball Technique? Summon up the fist of an SM +7 Fire Elemental! |
03-26-2012, 02:25 PM | #7 |
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Re: Large Projectiles
It's automatically an effect of an attack with a big enough SM difference. This balanced by the fact that it's harder to hit with by the same difference.
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03-26-2012, 04:41 PM | #8 |
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Re: Large Projectiles
It seems like at a certain SM difference any piercing attack should change to a crushing attack (and the various pi, pi-, pi+, etc scaling up and down).
If we visited a world where humans were planet-sized (and somehow this made sense) and all their guns were scaled up accordingly, if they shot at a regular sized human the tip of the bullet would be larger than the area of a regular human body. Or, if you'd shoot a bullet at a microbe... And, I suppose, it's the other way around too. Unless I'm really off on my reasoning here, which is totally possible.
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