D6 vs D20/Polyhedrals

[Chuck Anumia]

OK...T20 Gruffy hits the Barn and puts a hole in it.

CT Gruffy would need to take 5 to 42 shots to do the same?

Something seems broken with that system. Perhaps there are greater benifits to the T20 system than I first observed.

TY for helping me understand the system by practicle example Casey.

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

 

[mike wightman]

It's a man sized hole...

in T20 you get a hole, but it's not man sized.

 

[Gruffty]

CT doesn't have SI or AR for walls, etc. The Book 1 combat charts give DMs against various armours for the "to hit" throw. This means you can still "miss" a well armoured target, even at optimum range for your weapon. This is also why I didn't use the armour DM in my CT Gruffty example. A very abstract combat system indeed........................

We'll say a barn is "unarmoured", giving a "to hit" DM of +5. Adding that DM of +5 to CT Gruffty's previous throw and DMs means he hits the side of the barn. (CT Gruffty: "Hoorah!" )

Damage is 4D - min 4, max 24. How that affects the barn is not delineated in CT.

 

[mike wightman]

As I said earlier, treat it as a starship interior wall.

Which is covered, although not in the core rulebooks 1-3

Adventure 1: The Kinunir was one of the first examples.

I've always assumed maximum damage against inanimate objects.

 

[kaladorn]

Or, in CT terms, you could use Striker. It had some rules for armour values for things. I'd have to go dig it out, but maybe somebody with a copy nearby could offer the CT/Striker version of shooting the barn wall...

 

[aramis]

MT includes the Striker Demolitions rules...

 

[Gruffty]

Originally posted by Aramis:
MT includes the Striker Demolitions rules...

Eyethangewe! Forgot MT has tasty chunks of Striker hidden away in the gravy............

 

[clementk]

Originally posted by cweiskircher:
TY for helping me understand the system by practicle example Casey.

yw. It's by similar example that I got back into Traveller.

For a twist what about Gruffty armed with a laser rifle firing on a g-carrier or for that matter any vehicle, armored or not? I know how to do this in T20 right out of the book but how do you do this in CT?