Re: (TFT) chances of doing very little damage

[raito@raito.com]

Rather than supposing that the small damage hits are modelled as 
misses, I guess I'd ask whether you had the Sword Talent to begin with. 
In my experience, cutting with sharps does rely very much on edge 
orientation. Poor orientation does result in bouncing weapons, as you 
have seen. There's a fair amount of practice involved in getting a 
blade to hit edge on, every time. Learning how to do that is part of 
the Sword skill. After a while, it becomes natural. And while it's true 
that sometimes weapons do bounce in combat (I may do SCA mostly, but I 
have done rebated steel as well), I've found that they don't bounce as 
much as you'd think. I have also found that they tend to bounce and 
slide more from armour than they do from non-armour, which rather 
nicely fits into TFT's armour mechanic. And lighter weapons are more 
prone to this than heavier ones (a poll axe doesn't slide around much, 
unless you're wrestling with it), which is also modelled fairly well 
with the current die modifiers for lighter weapons. 

Unless you do a lot of cutting, it's rather a specious exercise to 
extrapolate damage effects from your experience. 

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com
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