[UA] Over the Unknown Edge magick

[Kevin Elmore]

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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