Quote from: HinterWeltI guess what I meant by epic was that Louis Wu, Chmee various extras do not take damage in a casual manner. I think you would need to up the lethality or the way damage is treated to make it fit well. Much of the story revolves around dealing with damage and the effects of it.

Now, the autodocs and nifty medicine help but Chmee was sidelined for several chapters while he recovered from bad burns. The puppeteer lost a head and even Louis took some nasty knocks. Another point would be the specific areas of damage;i.e. the puppeteer loosing its head.

Again, just my opinion.

Bill

I see where you are coming from, and we've been talking a bit about doing called shots the V&V way Roll to hit once with a , then roll to hit again to specify location (maybe with a negative mod). If the second roll misses you still hit the target just not as a called shot.

as for the leathlity of the damage, I guess that's a matter of taste, or playstyle or what have you. My players have actually voiced complaint over how easy it is to die in true20, but I think the conviction points keep things from getting too severe. It's interesting that you think the damage should be more lethal. Personally I would hesitate to leave a PC out of the action for too long. Once again, just a difference in preference. I just like the scope of the Ringworld, I'd probably pulpify it somwhat, as I do with everything I touch- which makes me think of Jack Vance's "Big Planet" which might be another good setting.

As with you, though, all this is just my opinion.

Quote from: AosI see where you are coming from, and we've been talking a bit about doing called shots the V&V way Roll to hit once with a , then roll to hit again to specify location (maybe with a negative mod). If the second roll misses you still hit the target just not as a called shot.

as for the leathlity of the damage, I guess that's a matter of taste, or playstyle or what have you. My players have actually voiced complaint over how easy it is to die in true20, but I think the conviction points keep things from getting too severe. It's interesting that you think the damage should be more lethal. Personally I would hesitate to leave a PC out of the action for too long. Once again, just a difference in preference. I just like the scope of the Ringworld, I'd probably pulpify it somwhat, as I do with everything I touch- which makes me think of Jack Vance's "Big Planet" which might be another good setting.

As with you, though, all this is just my opinion.

Perhaps lethality was a poor choice of words. Louis and Chmee for that matter were walking wounded for much of the books. Perhaps a means of claerly tracking locations and enforcing modifiers for abilities that use those areas.

As for a method, not pimping here, but my system (Iridium System) uses hit locations. A to hit is rolled and if successful, a targeting skill check is made. If successful, it hits one of ten locations of the attacker's choice. If not, a d10 is rolled for random location. People get pounded in the head and chest alot. The Iridium System is free and OGL here.

Ringworld would be a challenge to mesh with a system but I would love to see it come back as an RPG. I moss playing my space faring explorer type.

Bill