RE: [DL] Damage

In a nutshell as I stated: If you get 20 cards based on your roll, you still only use 5 of them to create a hand. This is what determines the damage. Only 5 cards are counded for making the hand, the rest are just discards unless they cause backlash to occur. Which is why getting extra cards is both a blessing and a curse.

Wes

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Payton [mailto:cougar_1877@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:57 PM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [DL] Damage

In Deadlands, the player rolls their hexslinging role to determine the amount of cards drawn; if the minimum TN is met, then the player draws 5 cards; however, the player gets to draw an additional card for every raise. Then the player makes the best poker hand possible. In this case, the player had enough raises to get three additional cards, coming up with a royal flush and the three jokers (which are wild cards for the purpose of the hand) became a three of a kind. This is how we've always paid. Please correct me if this is incorrect (I know the huckster rules changed somewhere along the line.) As to the damage, when the dice comes up with the highest possible number on the die, i.e. a 20 on a d20, then the player rolls again and adds and keeps adding if the 20 keeps coming up. This goes the same for the 3d6 damage to the guts.

Mary

Wes Anderson <wes.anderson@lucasfilm.com> wrote:

OK, someone tell me if I am wrong, but when I normally play poker and create a hand and I am playing say 7 card draw, I only use 5 cards to create the hand.

So wouldn't the Flush be the only damage? The three of a kind does not matter since its less than a flush. However, I suppose you could use the jokers as wild and create some other hand depending on the cards. But the biggest thing is that I don't think this is correct damage calculations for the game. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Payton [mailto:cougar_1877@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:51 PM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: Re: [DL] Damage

<<What was the largest amount of damage anyone has suffered or dealt?>>

Picture this...posse is in a magic amplification zone. In game terms, this translates to triple spell effects as well as triple backlash potentional (6 jokers in deck) and damage. Add into this mix a tempest (wild mage) with the potential for a soul blast level 5 (all hexes and levels for her are random) and just plain damn lucky on all draws. Needless to say, the villian substantially pissed the Tempest off by killing her buddy, so the player rolled for her spell (Soul Blast level 5) and pulled his cards. Remember that luck? I'll be damned if he didn't pull a natural royal flush and three jokers. The normal damage for this hand is 6d20 for the royal flush and an additional 4d12 for the three of a kind. Then times all of that by 3. The damage of the spell alone was 326 points of damage. But don't forget about those th! ree jokers. I, as the marshal, rolled three d20 on the backlash table. The result! s...18, 20, 20, i.e. catastrophic failure of the spell and the huckster takes 3d6 damage to the guts...three times and then multiplied by three. After all the rolls were in (I have never rolled so many 6s in my life!), the poor sot suffered approx. 500 pts of damage directly to the guts. No more tempest. But the destruction didn't end there. Remember the catastrophic failure part? Lets just say that the hex prepared by the tempest slammed into the hex being cast by the villian causing a tear in the fabric of reality, subsequently opening a black hole in the middle of town. All of the townfolks and every living thing in a five mile radius was sucked into oblivion. A hell of a lot of fate chips and a benevolent marshal managed to save some of the posse, but the once Arizona canyon country is now flat as Kansas and is a magic and spirit dead zone. Best damn ending to a campaign I have ever run!

Mary

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