Re: [WW] Re: A New System and Goodbye to D20

[gathomas4@juno.com]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:30:15 -0500 "Jeremy Reaban" <jer@connectria.com>
writes:

> 1) Not lethal enough?
> 
> Lower the massive damage rules from 50 hp to 10 hp.  A 'hit' from a
> .50 will now kill the average person.  (Call of Cthulhu takes this
> tack). Lower it 5, and any hit will be deadly.

Man, that's wicked.  How about 15? Ten just seems awfully low.
 
> 2) It's too hard to keep track of hit points for NPCs
> 
> Don't give them hit points. When they get hit, they die.  This is
> stupid, but it seems to be exactly what wild card will do.

Actually, this idea has been done before.  It worked very well in Feng
Shui.  For unnamed characters the GM didn't track their HP, if the "mook"
was hit by an attack that exceeded what was needed to hit by 5 or more
(say you roll an attack of 20 when the target only has an AC 15) then the
mook was out of the fight. Dead or not was a matter of style. The
important and named villians were handled the same way as PCs. This gave
a very cinematic feel in that the heroes could go through gobs of little
guys and it didn't take all night.
 
> I think the other complaint was initiative, 

Actually, no it wasn't and that little miscommunication has already been
straightened out.

 
> Again, game design is not exactly brain surgey.

Apparently, spelling correctly is. =)

And the rest, including the profanity, is too juvenile to respond to...


Happy Gaming, =)

screenmonkey

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