Trollbows on Trollerblades., or, how fast do trolls go on inline skates? Options

[longbowrocks]

Alrighty then.

[Medicineman]

Ah, you made akimbo sound like a quality, so I went on an expedition through my books for it. I don't know where I got the idea that it let you keep your whole dice pool.

I'm gonna give combat a go-over for probably the 5th time since starting this confounded game. In the meantime, do you think a use of edge counts as a modifier (such that you would add it after splitting the pool)?

no, the Use of Edge is no Modifier.
It can be Used once per Roll. So If You attack twice You have to spent two Edge Points

@Rerolling any Hits
I (We ,I'm in 3 different SR4A Rounds) always game that if (F.E.) you have a Pool of 12 Dice ,roll 2 Hits and need more , You spend 1 Edge and reroll all 10 Dice for more successes.
I don't remember any Round (I'm in a lot of Conventions ,5-8 a Year and play lots of SR4A) that dosen't game it that way

He who Dances twice
Medicineman

[longbowrocks]

no, the Use of Edge is no Modifier.
It can be Used once per Roll. So If You attack twice You have to spent two Edge Points

@Rerolling any Hits
I (We ,I'm in 3 different SR4A Rounds) always game that if (F.E.) you have a Pool of 12 Dice ,roll 2 Hits and need more , You spend 1 Edge and reroll all 10 Dice for more successes.
I don't remember any Round (I'm in a lot of Conventions ,5-8 a Year and play lots of SR4A) that dosen't game it that way

He who Dances twice
Medicineman

modifier: ah, I should have seen that.
reroll: "You may re-roll all of the dice on a single test that did not score a hit." So I guess you got it right. I was reading that wrong before.

[The Jopp]

I would have no problem with a player in my group (if I had one (sadface)) went with the double-triple digit speed modification.

And it would be even more fun if they took movement power on it too.

And hilarious if they FORGOT to add the Guard power.

Hmm, troll, 53 meters per turn equals 17,66 meters a second or 1059,6 meters a minute or 63576 meters an hour - or 63,576 KM/H

Here's a benchmark on human reaction time: http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/stats.php

Lets assume that the Troll has wired reflexes 2 so he has an average reaction time TWICE of a normal human, about 100 Milliseconds.

This means that he reacts within 1/10 of a second, that gives him 0,9 seconds to change direction in the case of a risk of collision. In 0,1 seconds he travels 1,766 so the minimum movement before he reacts he would move 19,426 meters.

Unfortunately he has only 2 actions in a combat turn which means ONE action is 1,5 seconds so he would move 28,256 meters in his first action before he can actually begin the next one - If we assume he spotted the imminent collision at the end of the first pass.

Its not always good to be fast and SR4 makes movement even more complicated.

If we assume that the troll is a vehicle, how badly would the collision rules damage him?

[Yerameyahu]

You do have to actually add 'rules' for that kind of monkey's paw stuff, though. RAW, nothing bad happens.