[UA] Over the Unknown Edge magick

[Kevin Elmore]

> 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.

Hrm, I thought about that.  However, combat in OTE uses
defense dice.  If I allow that for magick, then it's
possible to do a 0-point blast which still costs charges
(or maybe allow the adept to keep the charges).

If I don't allow a defense roll, then a 4-die adept can
kill a person with a single minor blast.  Even rolling all
2's for a sig blast (assuming x5) would be pretty
impressive.

That has been bothering me.

Kevin


--- Tim Rudloff <trudloff at onr.com> wrote:
> 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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