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06-04-2020, 08:22 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Pacheco, California
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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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06-04-2020, 10:49 AM | #2 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Giant Cestus Damage
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. |
06-04-2020, 11:26 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: North Texas
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Re: Giant Cestus Damage
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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06-04-2020, 12:26 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: New England
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Re: Giant Cestus Damage
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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06-04-2020, 12:36 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Pacheco, California
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Re: Giant Cestus Damage
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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06-04-2020, 03:16 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: Giant Cestus Damage
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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