Re: (TFT) Lifeisfun: Weapons and STR mins

[ErolB1@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/2006 9:16:34 PM Central Daylight Time, 
lifeisfun@aol.com writes:


> Nice memory on page 7.  Yes, that is tucked in there under some other 
> interesting specifics as well.   Still, I don't like the idea that a very high dex 
> character who could only hold a spear 1d (ST 11) could pick up a pike axe 
> and weild it at a DX -4  Damage -8 doing the 2d+2 doubled on a charge or a set. 
>  Max on a spear charge normal would be 12 dam.  But the pike axe could net 
> 28 - 8 for a 20.  And if the Spearman's DX was 19, he'd be rolling vs a 15.  

That would be Dx -4, damage -2; he'd be doing 2d damage doubled on a charge - 
or twice as much damage as a spear for -4 Dx. Which is generous even by my 
standards (I require -6 Dx for doing double damage). But IMO that's more a 
problem with pole weapons doing double damage on a charge. 4d+4 on a charge is 
excessive even for a St 15 figure, IMO. Which is why things like "pole weapons do 
only +1d extra damage on a charge" are common house rules.

Erol K. Bayburt
Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow
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