Re: [HOE] armour trick?

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>can anyone remember the way to take armour off  of a damage roll without 
>the
>players knowing the target is armoured.

Don't know if there's any "official" way.  However, John Hopler once 
recommended to me that you just do the calculation by taking the average 
value of the reduction from one die to the next, and multiply by the # of 
die.

For instance, if you've got AV1 you're going from 4d12 to 4d10, the average 
goes from 6.5 to 5.5.  Multiply by 4 (the # of die) and that means that you 
should subtract four points.  Which, in fact, is about the average 
protection AV1 is going to give you.

Going from 6d10 to 6d6 would be [(5.5 - 3.5 = 2) * 6 = ] 12 points of 
damage.

Going from 3d20 to 3d10 would be [(10.5 - 5.5 = 5) * 3 = ] 15 points of 
damage.  And so on.

If you're getting down to a point where you're just rolling d4s, and 
subtracting from # of die rather then type of die, I'd just reroll the 4s in 
secret.

Hope that helps.

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