House Rules: Weapon Breakage Modification

by Peter77@aol.com

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:17:40 -0500 From: Peter77@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Weapon Breakage Modification

There was a discussion a couple weeks back about the frequency of weapon breakage. Some said that ~1.6% of the time was too much for weapon breakage, so they didn't use it.

Personally, I'm in the middle. I like the ease of use since it requires no extra rolls until a check has to be made, but I also think 1.6% might be a little much.

So, here's a possible modification:

When a breakage occurs, roll another percentile (yea, another roll here). The percentile represents the 'amount' of breakage. Open ended means the weapon is broken into. Medium means heavily chipped and/or warped, still usable at a minus (~25). Lower represents less damage and minuses. With this, a complete breakage would be 0.08% of the time or 1 in about 1200 uses.

This would also prompt weapon repairs rather than just purchasing whole new weapons for those that like to consider and/or roleplay such transactions.

Peter


Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 23:08:10 -0500 From: "Wyatt R. Lavigne" To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Weapon Breakage Modification

On Wed, 30 Oct 1996 Peter77@aol.com wrote:
> There was a discussion a couple weeks back about the frequency of weapon
> breakage.  Some said that ~1.6% of the time was too much for weapon breakage,
> so they didn't use it.
> 
> Personally, I'm in the middle.  I like the ease of use since it requires no
> extra rolls until a check has to be made, but I also think 1.6% might be a
> little much.

I don't mind 1.6% if the weapon is a typical +0 item. When I mention a +0 weapon most people I talk to think of a super strait, super sharp sword with not a bad hilt. This is not the case. It is ussually something nothing special and rather ugly with either a two soft edge or too hard edge. Either way it leads to weapon breakage. The number of Iron to Steel items that I have broke is a fair amount and the torque wasn't too much. I broke a brand new Titainuim/Aluminum alloy crank by just biking in high gear out of my drive way. It was my freinds of course and I was late for an appointment downtown. Of course I missed the appoint ment and spent the next three hours pounding it back in shape.

Wyatt


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