Combat question - Dodge vs Resist |
Combat question - Dodge vs Resist |
Aug 27 2004, 09:45 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
Something that's been bugging me for a while is the difference between the dodge test and the resistance test? Unless I'm reading the rules wrong, the dodge test is combat pool only and the resistance test is body only...so why are they seperate when the Pistols/Combat Pool roll is the same roll? Did I miss something, or is there a reason for this I'm not getting?
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Aug 27 2004, 10:02 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
You can use Combat Pool for the Damage Resistance test. The TN for the Dodge test is usually different from the DamRes TN.
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Aug 27 2004, 10:08 AM
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Mr. Quote-function Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,312 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 1,376 |
1.) Damage resistance is body + combat pool 2.) Dodging is TN 4 + modifiers, combat pool only. 1 one success negates 1 success of the attacker. Number of successes of the attacker +1 and it's a total miss. 3.) Damage restance is against Power of attack - Armor (in some cases higher than the TN for dodging in some lower). One success negates 1 success of the attacker but due to base damage of an attack you need two successes per Damage level extra in order to stay unharmed ... Example: Char A shoots at Char B with Ares Pred and scores 1 success. Dodging: Char B uses combat pool vs. TN 4 (+ mods where applicable) and scores 2 successes => successful doge. Resistance: Char B resists with body + combat pool against TN 9 - worn ballistic armor. Since the Base Damage of the attack is M he needs 5 successes ... 1 to negate the attacker's success and 4 more to stage down from M to L to nothing. Successes in a dodging tests that don't lead to successful dodging directly apply towards the damage resistance ... |
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Aug 27 2004, 01:25 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
You sure that you need to negate successes in the damage resistence test? I've never run into that before. I've always played and run that all you need to do is stage the damage, so in this case you'd only need 4 successes and not five. |
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Aug 27 2004, 02:36 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
You compare the net successes. If the shooter has 1 success and you have no Dodge successes, you need 3 successes on the Damage Resistance Test to stage the damage down once. This is quite explicitly stated in the Determine Outcome paragraph on p. 113, SR3.
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Aug 27 2004, 02:40 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,840 Joined: 24-July 02 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 3,024 |
But you only apply the net successess. So 4-1=3 so that still leaves a light wound. However, with 5-1=4 net successes, no damage.
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Aug 27 2004, 02:59 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Two more things to add about dodging: the only modifiers that apply, IIRC, are wound modifiers and +1 for every three bullets coming your way. Furthermore, if you're a rigger in a vehicle your base TN is Handling, not 4.
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Aug 27 2004, 03:06 PM
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Mr. Quote-function Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,312 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 1,376 |
@ Dashifen ...
*g* I somehow knew that this would happen ... The problem is that in ranged combat staging is part of "Determine Outcome" after the resistance test. The staging is generally based on the successes generated in the Success and Resistance test. It pretty much depends on how you interpret the comparison of the generated successes: Seperate or net successes? First let's have look at Char A having 3 successes on his test:
So it either takes 6 or 7 successes to avoid damage Now let's look at situations where Char A has 2 successes:
Either way you need 6 successes to avoid damage. Now the same for just one success of Char A:
So either 4 or 5 successes to avoid damage ... Now the greyed situations make the difference: Solution 1: If you directly use the individual successes anyone will more easily take higher damage (Situations 2 in Example 1 and 2). And while the number of successes of A increase in a linear manner, the number of successes to avoid damage increase like this 4,6,6,8,8, etc. Solution 2: Alternatively, the increase of damage comes a little later, but it's harder to avoid damage overall, since now you need 1 more success that has to cancel out the attackers hit ... In this situation the required number of successes advances linearly just as the attacker's (5,6,7, etc.) By the wording of the rules, solution 1 is closer to the wording of the rules: Staging nowhere mentions "net successes". However the example on p. 113 clearly uses the solution with net successes. |
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Aug 27 2004, 05:04 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,754 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Modesto, CA Member No.: 6,465 |
Dodge Test is your chance to avoid getting hit completely. If your Dodge Test Successes >= Shooters successes, you dodge. Resistance Test is when you get a chance to reduce the remaining number of successes and stage down the damage.
Nah. Dodge Test = Combat Pool only Resistance Test = Body + Combat Pool
Not sure what you mean here, but you basically get 2 chances as the defender to use Combat Pool dice: 1st for Dodge Test, 2nd for Resistance Test. This post has been edited by GrinderTheTroll: Aug 27 2004, 05:13 PM |
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Aug 27 2004, 06:41 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
Interesting. Been playing for years and no one else has ever pointed that out or run using solution 2 as you described above. We've always staged the damage resulting from net successes after the dodge test and then the damage resistence test can stage the damage back down accordingly. |
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Aug 27 2004, 06:51 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,754 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Modesto, CA Member No.: 6,465 |
If I am not mistaken that was a change made in SR3 from how it used to be handled. You used to stage down from the Dodge Test (discard extra successes), then stage down from Resistance Test. It was one of the things that when I read SR3 stuck out in my mind as either playing SR1 & SR2 wrong, or a subtle change. |
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Aug 27 2004, 08:16 PM
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Mr. Quote-function Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,312 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 1,376 |
As I said: This is merely due to the fact that the damage staging for ranged attacks is done after doing both Success and Resistance Test as part of the Damage assignment. For melee it's a whole different story: In melee the attacker makes his test and the number of his successes instantly raise the damage level automatically discarding any uneven number of successes. Every two successes after staging to dealdy may (this is an important choice of wording in the rules) be used to stage power by one. The resistance test then comes after that and will normally always require 2,4,6 or 8 successes to avoid damage at all. Apart from that difference this also has impact on how "deadlier overdamage" works for ranged an melee: In ranged combat the attacker needs 2 net successes per damage box after staging to deadly. At this point resistance has already been dealt with, so that's the final result. For melee however it becomes a bit more complicated: Every two successes after staging to deadly can now either (this is why the word "may" is of importance in the staging part for melee) be used to increase the power by or to inflict extra boxes of damage. A mix of both is also possible (but requires situations where the attacker uses such large numbers of dice against an opponent who has practically no melee skill). Odd numbers off successes are again automatically dropped by one. The damage resistance then requires 2,4,6 or 8 successes plus 2 for every box of extra damage that the attacker turned into extra damage boxes. |
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