Re: (TFT) Dragons of Underearth Versus Melee/Advanced

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---- Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu> wrote: 
> At 16:25 -0500 3/4/09, Dan wrote:
> >The only thing that bothers me here is the lack of scale.  A Giant
> >wearing Giant Plate should be affected the same as a human
> >wearing Human Plate.
> 
> Not quite sure how you mean. The "square-cube law" applies, or put 
> another way, a 1/16" layer of Plate on a Giant would stop as many 
> hits as the same layer on a Human, but would be a far smaller 
> fraction of the Giant's mass. So I'd expect a Giant to be less 
> encumbered by the same amount of armor than a human would be.
> -- 
> 			-Mark     210-379-4635

Hey Mark,

Well, I wouldn't consider a Giant wearing piece of metal 1/16" 
thick to be wearing Giant plate.

Plate mail (on a human) is intended to provide more protection
to the man inside from weapons carried by other men.  In other
words, there's a ratio of protection to expected damage.  In Melee,
plate stops 6 hits and lets say that the average opponent carries
a 2D weapon, so the armor stops half of the expected damage.

Giants carry big honking clubs - 1D+1 per 10 ST of the Giant.  
That means that Giant plate on a 30 ST Giant should stop 13
hits (the average of 3D+3). 40 Giant Plate should stop about
18 hits while 50 ST Giant plate should stop an amazing 22 hits.

How do I arrive at these figures?  I'll use 3D+3 as an example.
The range on 3D is 3 to 18.  18 - 3 = 15.  15 / 2 = 7 (rounding
down).  Now I add back the 3 (the minimum on a 3D roll) and
7+3 = 10.  If we were talking about a 3D weapon, I could stop 
there.  But a 30 ST Giant club does 3D+3 ... so 10 + 3 is 13.

For a 4D+4 club .... 24-4=20  20/2=10  10+4=14   14+4=18.

Of course, he pays a huge penalty for that -- -6 DX so he's only 
going to hit on a 5 or less (let's forget about averaging in double
and triple damage at the moment.) unless other DX adds come
into play.

That's what I think a Giant should get for his -6 DX and -6 MA.

Dan
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