Re: (TFT) A draft attempt at a piece armor system for use with Gladiator Variant

[Daniel Tulloh <daniel@jaws.greatwhite.com>]

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, J. McGuire wrote:

> I'm not sure you *can* do a good piece armor system for this. The big, BIG
> problem is that (as TSR has been finding out for the past 25 years) an
> overall armor rating and individually armored zones just don't work together.
> 
> 1) It's a simple roll, and the result table can be easily memorized
> 2) Gladiatorial combat can be considered to be a "special case" and
>    therefore this won't clog up normal TFT games
> 3) It adds needed detail without going overboard on complexity
> 
> Of course, then you get lured into local hit points, changes to hit
> probabilities based on position, and all of the other scary things that has
> led to AD&D spawning $800+ worth of rulebooks and *still* not working
> right. But that, at least, is a simple enough system to give us some hope.
>

Advanced Melee sort of covers this with the "Aimed Shots" rules.
There are specific rules for attacking the legs, arms, wings, 
head, what have you.  As I recall, its basically a -4 to the
DX roll to perform an aimed shot.
 
Dan


=====
Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com.
Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body
"unsubscribe tft"