OK, someone tell me if I am wrong, but
when I normally play poker and create a hand and I am playing say 7 card draw,
I only use 5 cards to create the hand.
So wouldn't the Flush be the only
damage? The three of a kind does not matter since its
less than a flush. However, I suppose you could use the jokers as wild and
create some other hand depending on the cards.
But the biggest thing is that I don't think this is correct damage
calculations for the game. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Payton
[mailto:cougar_1877@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:51
PM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: Re: [DL] Damage
<<What was the largest amount of damage
anyone has suffered or dealt?>>
Picture this...posse is in a magic amplification
zone. In game terms, this translates to triple spell effects as well as
triple backlash potentional (6 jokers in deck) and damage. Add into this
mix a tempest (wild mage) with the potential for a soul blast level 5 (all
hexes and levels for her are random) and just plain damn lucky on all
draws. Needless to say, the villian substantially pissed the
Tempest off by killing her buddy, so the player rolled for her spell (Soul
Blast level 5) and pulled his cards. Remember that luck? I'll be
damned if he didn't pull a natural royal flush and three jokers. The
normal damage for this hand is 6d20 for the royal flush and an additional 4d12 for
the three of a kind. Then times all of that by 3. The damage of the
spell alone was 326 points of damage. But don't forget about those three
jokers. I, as the marshal, rolled three d20 on the backlash table.
The result! s...18, 20, 20, i.e. catastrophic failure of the spell and the
huckster takes 3d6 damage to the guts...three times and then multiplied by
three. After all the rolls were in (I have never rolled so many 6s in my
life!), the poor sot suffered approx. 500 pts of damage directly to the
guts. No more tempest. But the destruction didn't end there.
Remember the catastrophic failure part? Lets just say that the hex
prepared by the tempest slammed into the hex being cast by the villian causing
a tear in the fabric of reality, subsequently opening a black hole in the
middle of town. All of the townfolks and every living thing in a five
mile radius was sucked into oblivion. A hell of a lot of fate chips and a
benevolent marshal managed to save some of the posse, but the once
Mary
Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. 
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