Re: [BNW] Brawling

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> > Really getting punched by someone hurts, a lot...which is why boxers wear big 
> > padded gloves (think of it as forcing stun checks rather than doing wounds).
> 
> Yes, it does hurt when you get hit, but boxing gloves are more to protect
> the hands of the boxer than the target.  Otherwise, what's the point of
> pounding someone senseless?

Ratings! If they didn't wear gloves then the fight would be over in 20
sec, oh wait that happens anyway.

> I'd just like to point out, while trying to make a system reflect the real
> world is a good thing, there comes a point where it bogs down so much you
> lose the feel of the milieu (Look!  I didn't use the word genere!!) which
> you are trying to evoke.
> 
> Yes, there will be some normal schmoes out there who will seem wimpy using
> the system, but its designed to be low-powered comic style heroics, where
> people are that way.  Thus, don't expect everyone to want to apply real
> world physics when they're wanting to play a Golden Age 4 color setting
> with a bit of modern paranoia and conspiracy for flavor.

Well there are a couple ways to fix it:
1. Leave everything the same and accept that every system has its limits.
2. Make every attack force a stun check even if it does no wounds (that
way you can knock someone out without killing them, if you want you could 
restrict it so you can only force a "free" stun check if the hitter's
str. is >= the hittees) 
3. Someone else suggested this one: Keep track of how many stun checks
someone has failed and don't let them get up until they have passed ALL of
them. If the number of failed checks becmones higher than their str. they
are out long term. So MadMax the Goliath goes up against a group of other
deltas. After pounding on him for a few rounds he's actually failed 2 stun
checks. So every action he can try to pass both checks, but isn't allowed
to get up until he passes both. If they could somehow get him to fail 10
stun checks he would be out like a light.
Also you have to stop making str. rolls once you fail one. Ex. DeltaX has
4 failed checks under his belt, his action comes up, he passes the first,
but fails the second, so he can't try to pass 3 and 4.

-Theo McGuckin, operations
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