Re: [DL] sneaky armour trick

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

That's pretty close to what I use - though I use 1 point per die rolled per 
armor level.  Though I hadn't thought about adding in the effect of aces.

The reason I use something like this is for those cases where I don't want 
the posse to know that the critter has armor.  This is a quick calculation 
that doesn't require die rolling.

Actually - I like the 1.5 multiplier as well.  I've always thought that 
heavy armor was too wimpy.


At 03:24 PM 11/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
 >I usualy just reroll the appropriate damage behind my screen.  However if 
you
 >wanted to give it a number I would take the damage rolled and subtract 1.5
 >per difference in die type number of dice.  EX:  player does 4d10 damage,
 >does 28 points of damage and got an ace (rolled 9,2,10,1,and a 6 on the roll
 >for the ace).  Critter has 2 levels of armor so damage should be 4d6.  This
 >means the die type differs by 2 and 5 dice were rolled all together so
 >5+2=7x1.5=10.5 (rounded to 11) so the critter takes 17 points of damage
 >28-11.  If you can do that in your head I guess it's all right, me, I'd just
 >roll the damage at the same time the player does...
 >
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