Re: [HOE] Another explosiion idea

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>Or should that be explosive idea?
>
>How about a mix of the old and the new?
>
>Here's my suggestion (BTW, I don't yet have Iron OAsis, so if I mess
>up any aspect of the new system, please be forgiving):
>
>Roll the damage for ground zero.
>Roll 1d6 for areas hit by that damage for each person in the first
>blast radius.
>Apply the rolled damage to that many locations.
>Roll 1d6-1 for everyone in the next radius and apply the same damage
>originally rolled to that many locations.
>Continue to the edge of the effective explosion.
>Armor works like the old system:  AV1 in an affected area? Reduce the
>wounds by 1.  Armor -2 in the area?  Roll below the armor to reduce
>wounds by 1.
>Give no wounds to areas with really solid cover (the kind that
>wouldn't just be picked up and throw into the person hiding behind
>it).
>

Yep, it looks like you know the rules pretty well even sans Iron Oasis.  :)

It looks like we're pretty much in sync here with what I suggested earlier. 
The only thing I did that was different was to reduce the damage directly 
from armor. The only thing your system changes there (which I'm not sure if 
it's good or bad) is that you have it modify Wounds directly...and Wounds 
are in part determined by Size.  Would the two different versions have an 
appreciable difference?  Anyone?

>Thoughts?
>

Well, of course it sounds good to me:  it mirrors a suggestion I made 
earlier.  :)  I'd be curious to run some numbers and see if subtracting the 
armor before or after you calculate wounds would make a difference though 
for Scrawny and Brawny characters.

Thanks!

>Hank Woolsey


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Steve Crow

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