[UA] Unknown Skills

[Lxndr]

On RPG.NET, it was recently suggested that, for bows and crossbows and 
the like, instead of adding dice or taking the percentile score, you 
multiply the dice (matches still do firearm damage).  So if you roll an 
81, you do 8*1 = 8 points.  If you roll a 79, you do 7*9 = 63 points. 
 And so on.  Sort of a neat "middle ground"

Radoslaw Galus wrote:

>From: Tim Bisaillon <knightbane at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 8:09 PM
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>>Yes, I can see your point in that. I just thought since it was
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>a projectile
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>>weapon it would do projectile damage. Hmmm, come to think of it
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>how does
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>>Crossbow and dart guns would work? I guess it will work the
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>same for hand to
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>>hand weapons. Since a bullet travels at such a greater
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>velocity.
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>I'd leave crossbows doing projectile damage. They're hellishly
>dangerous things. I have a lot of respect for these weapons ever
>since I've seen one being used against a brick wall. The bolt
>almost came out on the other side - it impaled itself up to half
>of its length in the wall.
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>And in medevial times the crossbow was what started the process
>of heavy armoured knights becoming obsolete as a military
>formation, even before the apearance of firearms. It was easy to
>use (point and shoot) but more important powerfull enough to
>pierce the heaviest plates of armour with shocking ease (today's
>kevlar is too pretty much useless against crosbow bolts). Pope
>Innocent III even tried to outlaw the crossbow as a most
>unchristian, barbarous and cruel weapon but it was simply too
>efective to be ignored and not used.
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>- RG
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