Combat- Why not contests of skills?

garyb · 10-08-2004, 12:50 AM

It seems everything in GURPS where 2 or more characters oppose each other there is a contest of skills. Why not for combat?

Wouldn't that solve the problem of very high skillls? A strike with the percision of 10 under(skill of 20 and rolling a 10) need the defender to equal or beat the sucesses.

I would have like to see 4th edition tackle having the sucess margin of a strike having some determining factor in the amount of damage done.

thoughts?

10-08-2004, 12:50 AM	#1
garyb Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Florida	Combat- Why not contests of skills? It seems everything in GURPS where 2 or more characters oppose each other there is a contest of skills. Why not for combat? Wouldn't that solve the problem of very high skillls? A strike with the percision of 10 under(skill of 20 and rolling a 10) need the defender to equal or beat the sucesses. I would have like to see 4th edition tackle having the sucess margin of a strike having some determining factor in the amount of damage done. thoughts?