Re: Re: (TFT) Scale

["Jay Carlisle" <selfinflicted_wounds@boardermail.com>]

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> From: pvk@oz.net
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> Yes. Another thing I developed at the end of my uber GURPS house rules
> phase, was a split rules system WITHIN THE SAME COMBAT, to streamline
> large battles.
> 
> PC's, important NPC's, and people they were fighting, could/would use my
> full uber-detailed rules.





Anyones favorite subject is THEMSELVES!





> But many of the less plot-relevant NPC's fighting each other nearby, could
> use a different combat system, one that abstracted a LOT of stuff down to
> net results. A fight between two low-fi NPC's could be reduced down to a
> single (in one case, 1d12) die roll every few turns, representing the net
> results of different averaged types fighting each other for a while. The
> results were statistically accurate, having been worked out in advance
> using the full rules on my own time. So there was little or no degradation
> in realism, just in detail, and an immense reduction in time required, and
> in the ability to have all sorts of chaos going on around the PC's,
> without reducing their personal situations' detail or their options.


I read this as 'Quick Combat'.
>From a CRT standpoint this is saying that an "inferear advesary" STILL has a chance to crititical and do REAL damage so let's boil it down to those rolls.

Again, 'Gangs of New York'.
"I've only killed ONE man worth remembering."

Rarely would someone really wanna FOCUS on the death blow.

It's the players choice anyway.

A sick person is a sick player.



Jay



 
> I figure that might spark some ideas.
> 
> PvK
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