[UA] Over the Unknown Edge magick

[Tim Rudloff]

I would think of it this way:
Minor Blast is equivelent to a bare handed attack, a Significant Blast
is equivilent to a gunshot.  Since OtE already has systems in place for
resolving hand damage and gun damage, use those systems.

Kevin Elmore wrote:

> Hrm, I just had a thought regarding my UA/OtE conversion.
>
> Blast numbers would be different.
>
> Right off the bat, I'm thinking that a minor blast would be
> the sum of your die roll while a significant blast could be
> a product of the dice.
>
> This works fine for people with 2 dice in magick.  A minor
> blast would be no more than 12 points (without rerolling
> 6's) while a significant blast would range from 1 to 36
> points of damage.  However, this also means that the minor
> blast can practically kill someone with average hit points
> (14).
>
> As soon as you get to three or four dice, then a
> significant blast will almost always kill someone.
> Honestly, this isn't too much different from the UA rules.
> However, this would be much more likely in OtE.
> Statistically, the expected value of a three-die
> significant blast would be (3.5)^3 = 42 points of damage.
> Even a tough guy would most likely be at about 28 hit
> points.
>
> Another possibility is that minor blasts would only do the
> amount of damage of the highest die you roll.  Thus, you
> may be lucky and do 5 or 6 damage.  This fits in nicely
> with UA in that a minor blast is not likely to kill
> someone.  A gun or knife would likely do more than that.
>
> A significant blast would do the sum of the dice.  So, a
> 2-die blast would do 2-12.  A 3-die blast would do 3-18.  A
> massive 4-die blast would do 4-24.  A person typically has
> 14 hit points while a buff warrior type would have 28 hit
> points.
>
> If obsessions are granted a bonus die, then the above
> numbers are skewed.
>
> So you OTE people, what do you think?  Now that I thought
> up the latter method, I like that a hell of a lot more than
> the former.
>
> Kevin Elmore
>
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