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Old 06-04-2020, 08:22 AM   #1
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Default Giant Cestus Damage

ITL 78: "Giants usually fight with clubs and without armor. On occasion, too, they fight with swords or axes, or with great cesti strapped to their hands (see p. 122)."

ITL 122: "When a fighter uses a dagger or cestus in HTH combat ..."

ITL 113: "A single cestus is treated exactly like a main-gauche ..."

ITL 126: "Trampling"

The Giant isn't in HTH with Eric the Emaciated? So the Cestus damage is the 1d-1 of the main-gauche in regular combat and not the 1d+6 of a (ST 30) main-gauche in HTH?
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Old 06-04-2020, 10:49 AM   #2
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Yeah, 1d-1, if it's even allowed to do a cestus attack as a giant against some smaller figure lying down in your own hex, without entering HTH.

I'd instead tend to have the giant do a melee kick attack, as that seems more certainly to be in reach of a groveling puny humanoid, and it would do ST-based unarmed attack damage.
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Old 06-04-2020, 11:26 AM   #3
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Further illustration of the problem in applying human-size weapons and damage ratios to 'huge' figures.

'Great cesti' should probably have unique stats.
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Further illustration of the problem in applying human-size weapons and damage ratios to 'huge' figures.

'Great cesti' should probably have unique stats.
Agreed. Given that a giant's club does damage off the charts (I can't reconcile it to the info for clubs on ITL 122), a giant cestus should certainly do a heap of damage.
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Old 06-04-2020, 12:36 PM   #5
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Here's my suggested fix:

Great Cestus: For every 10 full base ST rating of this weapon it does 1d damage, costs $20 and weighs 2 pounds. It does an additional point of damage per die in HTH. So the ST 30 Great Cestus does 3d damage (3d+3 in HTH), costs $60 and weighs 6 pounds.
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Old 06-04-2020, 03:16 PM   #6
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I don't understand what you guys are talking about. The cestus does damage by ST, which should be 1d+6 for a ST 30 giant, and there is no indication that it can only be used in HTH; why would you have it do 1d-1 when attacking an adjacent figure?
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Old 06-04-2020, 03:36 PM   #7
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Well, Henry is clearly taking the following text too literally... "A single cestus is treated exactly like a main-gauche". That phrase definitely should not be interpreted to include damage.

My issue is that while I agree that 1d+6 is respectable damage (7-12 points) for such a simple weapon, it does bug me a bit that cestus sized for a human hand and one for a creature at least twice as big still have the same +3 damage adjustment.
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Old 06-04-2020, 05:25 PM   #8
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TFT ST and damage are quadratic.

ST 13 is 69% "greater" than ST 10
ST 33 is 21% "greater" than ST 30

And so on.
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Old 06-04-2020, 10:44 PM   #9
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The weapon table (ITL page 110) lists cestus damage as "By ST" and "Damage depends on ST". This to me means the HTH chart damage is always used with a cestus whether in HTH or not. The line about being like a Main Gauche is about how to handle DX penalties and other aspects.

In non-HTH the cestus fists should do more damage what the naked fists would do. So, to me the cestus giant does 1+6 in and out of HTH.
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Old 06-05-2020, 10:56 AM   #10
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The weapon table (ITL page 110) lists cestus damage as "By ST" and "Damage depends on ST". This to me means the HTH chart damage is always used with a cestus whether in HTH or not. The line about being like a Main Gauche is about how to handle DX penalties and other aspects.

In non-HTH the cestus fists should do more damage what the naked fists would do. So, to me the cestus giant does 1+6 in and out of HTH.
Yeah, despite my initial comment, that's how I have done it, too.
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