DnD Monsters vs T20 Travellers

[mike wightman]

Nope, AR takes away the smallest die first.

Always remove the lowest rolls first.

Page 148.

So you'd lose the 3, and do 9 points of damage, which is then reduced to 5 due to the AR remaining.

 

[archhealer]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
Nope, AR takes away the smallest die first.
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Always remove the lowest rolls first.

Page 148.

So you'd lose the 3, and do 9 points of damage, which is then reduced to 5 due to the AR remaining. </font>[/QUOTE]Right right... I 'membered incorrectly. Still. And am I incorrect in my assumption that for melee damage, STR still gives a damage bonus? One of my players just tried to ask that, since DEX is the typical modifier used in T20.

 

[mike wightman]

I think that STR does give a damage bonus to melee weapons still - at least it doesn't say anywhere that it doesn't

 

[far-trader]

Ack, where was my brain when I typed that? Yes it is the lowest die(s) subtracted first

Thanks for the catch Sigg.

And I agree Str could be a bonus for some melee weapons. In fact I long pushed in our D&D games to have some weapons classed as finesse and use Dex for to hit and damage bonuses, while others were to be classed force weapons and use Str for to hit and damage bonuses, and some weapons were capable of either depending on the users style choice when selecting the weapon skill. I can see using the same thing in T20, for what my opinion is worth given the mistake above

 

[kafka47]

Having just finished reading the D20 Cthulhu rulebook, perhaps, we ought to think of ways of adapting some the Cthulhu beasties into Traveller. The Dark Young seem to be especially Traveller like, at least as far MTU goes...

 

[MrMorden]

I'm really considering nixxing the damage bonus of strength. It just seems pretty powerful. I'm already using the STR to hit bonus for melee weapons, like every other d20 product, to not over-weight DEX.

Of course, the STR damage bonus gives characters a reason to want to use a Cutlass...

 

[Crashlogic]

if I go bear hunting with an axe I deserve to be mauled. The real question here is what were your traveller characters doing that close to a Dinosaur? A vrf gauss gun on an air raft at 200 meters up makes short work of Godzilla. Especially when vehicle weapon damage rules are applied.

Of cours that being said, an alternate way to make combat mroe intersting is to drop the lifeblood rules and just use hitpoints.

 

[Pickles]

Originally posted by kafka47:
...perhaps, we ought to think of ways of adapting some the Cthulhu beasties into Traveller.

Most definitely. Been a while since I last read my Lovecraft, but IIRC Cthulhu, Azathoth and the boys were always more alien than supernatural. Who was it that lived on Pluto? Funghi of Yuggoth?

Speaking of which, Cthulhu Rising is just such an SF-setting, albeit for the BRP system. I believe there's a Chaosium Monograph.

 

[Golan2072]

Originally posted by Grymlocke:
I always thought an ABOLETH (that psionic-fish thingy) would make a cool alien speicies....

Look here to find a thread about the ABOLETH...