Two quick questions, TN related |
Two quick questions, TN related |
Jul 9 2004, 05:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: 1-March 04 From: Gulf Coast Member No.: 6,111 |
I am gearing up for a game that I will be Gm'ing and wanted to make sure that I was well versed on the rules as presented in the BBB.
1. In a damage resistance test, does the wound level penalty add to the TN? I have played it that way but the example on page 113 of the BBB doesn't take that into account. It just uses Power minus Armor resisted by Body. 2. How do you handle the fact that 6 and 7 are the same TN? Example: Gel rounds do Power -2 [Regular Damge Code] Stun so a Predator (9M) would do 7M Stun. That's the same as 6M Stun from the point of view of the person on the receiving end. :| However, the reduction in power due to armor would make a difference. Just curious. Thank you, - theartthief |
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Jul 9 2004, 05:34 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 376 Joined: 14-July 03 Member No.: 4,928 |
Wound level makes no difference to Damage Resistance, only to dodging.
You can be unconscious and still resist Damage, albeit no combat pool. as for the 6/7 TN - it doesn't bother us. |
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Jul 9 2004, 02:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 280 Joined: 22-October 03 Member No.: 5,757 |
Being unconsious and resisting damage incurs a +4 tn I do believe.
Basis for my interpretation is in the rigger's section I don't know what page or which book :(. When a rigger is jacked into a drone they're not paying attention to their body making damage harder to compensate for. Because they can't roll with the damage, angle their body properly to avoid major organ damage and so on. |
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Jul 9 2004, 02:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 376 Joined: 14-July 03 Member No.: 4,928 |
I don't have Rigger 3, but wound modifiers have never factored into resisting damage. As we interpret it, being unconscious provides a -1 TN to be hit by attacker (stationary target), and no combat pool for soaking.
Same with spell resistance. |
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Jul 9 2004, 02:20 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,138 Joined: 10-June 03 From: Tennessee Member No.: 4,706 |
The listings for damage resistance tests do not include injury modifiers, either. Dodge tests explicitly include the damage modifiers in the test (p 113). Unconciousness doesn't do anything aside from make you easier to hit and deny you CP (as others have said). For the TN 6=7 thing, you get used to it. It's not that terribly common that you're rolling against TN 7. |
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Jul 9 2004, 03:08 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
For the 6/7 thing, it becomes more difficult once you add TN mod. (wound penalty, vision mods, etc..)
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Jul 9 2004, 03:12 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 18-January 04 From: bethlehem, pennsylvania. not israel. we're not busy bulldozing any palestinian homesteads here. yet. Member No.: 5,989 |
7 -> 6?
Not by my group's reading, we see it as 7->8. A one is ALWAYS a failure, yes? IE, my TN is 1, but I roll a single die and it comes up 1. Meets the TN, but a 1 is a failure. Too bad for me. My TN is a 7. I roll a die, it comes up six. I re-roll, it comes up 1, except that 1 is an automatic failure. I needed at least a 2 on my re-rolled 6 in order to beat the automatic failure rule. |
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Jul 9 2004, 03:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 30-March 04 Member No.: 6,206 |
TN 7 is... TN 7. Roll a six, get a seven free because you'll always get at least a one. TN can never be lower than 2. Thusly a 1 is always a failure. As for that second bit, no. By the rules, you roll anything not a 1 on the FIRST die toss, it's not an autofailure. Autofailures do not exist when rerolling die for the Rule of Six. |
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Jul 9 2004, 03:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 693 Joined: 26-March 03 Member No.: 4,335 |
Ew. I'd avoid that. It messes up the whole 'rule of sixes'. It's not a good idea to punish people for having more dice, or good rolls.
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Jul 11 2004, 05:15 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 386 Joined: 2-January 04 From: California Protectorate Member No.: 5,949 |
I've always played a TN of 7 as being a TN of 8 for all intents and purposes. Whatever modifies it does so from seven, but if the final TN is 7, I always require my players to get an 8. I swear that rule is somewhere in the BBB, but I'm too lazy to check. Anyone have a page number?
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Jul 11 2004, 05:19 AM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
No page number on that because it is undoubedly positibely not a rule in any SR rulebook. |
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Jul 11 2004, 05:40 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
As pointed out, TN 6 and 7 are very different, as are TN 2 and -4. Why? Modifiers. Say you've taken a box of damage; suddenly all those 6s aren't any harder to make, but the 7s are nontrivially tougher. So on and so forth.
~J |
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Jul 11 2004, 05:42 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
Very different is perhaps an overstatement, but they are definitely not identical, and factors do tend to shift to make them only a passing problem and sometimes part of a good dynamic. There are times, of course, when it can produce crazy results, but it's not too much of a problem, in my experience.
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Jul 11 2004, 05:57 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
The TN modifiers also don't apply to drain resistance or resisting spells either.
The 7 as 8 rules is not official, mostly the difference between TN 6 and 7 only shows up when modifiers are applied. |
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Jul 11 2004, 06:11 AM
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Decker on the Threshold Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,922 Joined: 14-March 04 Member No.: 6,156 |
Indeed it's not, because you're really not solving the problem, but merely delaying it; now 7 and 8 are the same TN instead of 6 and 7. It'd be a pointless rule.
On a further note, the d6 system is just complex anyway when it comes to scaling TNs. The difficulty of hitting a particular TN scales exponentially with the number, but each change changes the probabilities differently. That's the main reason that conditions that modify TNs are almost always more influential than increasing the number of dice. All in all, it's a wierd system with several variables that make calculating probabilities very odd. |
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Jul 11 2004, 08:17 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
Should be noted that modified exploding dice basically add the result -1 to all rolls after the first. Thus, rolling a 6 and rerolling up to a 5 would be an 11 with standard exploding dice, but a 10 with modified exploding dice. It negates the problem, but it's also somewhat slower and, more importantly, a lot of the canon TNs are designed to work around 6s and 7s being equivalent.
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Jul 11 2004, 08:44 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 386 Joined: 2-January 04 From: California Protectorate Member No.: 5,949 |
Well then I guess it's just a house rule that I was taught that I wasn't told was a house rule (or forgot being told). I've never played treating 7 as a 6, but I think I'll stick with this house rule. I'd rather err on the side of things generally being more difficult. Makes the runners more nervous. :vegm: |
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Jul 11 2004, 09:33 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
The math with we a while earlier using d10s instead of d6s produced some better reuslts. Just add 1 to the 'base TN'.
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Jul 11 2004, 02:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 577 Joined: 12-June 04 Member No.: 6,398 |
I prefer "fixing" it by treating all 6's as "5+Reroll." Probabilities remain about the same until you hit TNs of 12 or so, at which point they progressively become more difficult at each increment of 6... but by that time, it doesn't really matter. It doesn't fix the total lack of a single curve in the Shadowrun system, but it makes all target numbers target numbers of their own.
I know TSS did a variation similar to that using d8's but that just does the same thing while simultaneously making all TNs under 8 significantly easier. |
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