| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Danyeal De La Luna) |
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| Subject: | Marc's Grenade Rule |
| Date: | Thu May 3 16:50:01 2001 |
of the body. The damage code would be roughly( saying that their torso and
head were exposed) whatever the normal damage for the grenade divided by 4.
This will reflect that the majority of the blast is being diverted, but that
some of the blast is getting through.
Lunatec
> Cover should reduce the Power of a grenade blast. A simple way to figure
> this is to take the percentage of the target behind cover and multiply it
> by the Barrier Rating of the object providing the cover, rounding down.
> Thus, standing in 50% cover (partial cover, +4) behind an object of
Barrier
> Rating 8 would reduce the grenade's effective Power by 4. Standing in 75%
> cover (+6 modifier) behind an object with a Barrier Rating of 4 would
> reduce the grenade's effective Power by 3. Remember that cover is
> determined from where the grenade detonates, not from where it is thrown.
So, therefore, if someone is caught in a grenade blast and are taking 50%
cover behind reinforced concrete, Barrier Rating 32, then they're fine. 50%
of the Barrier Rating of 32 is 16, and it's unlikely that the grenade Power
will go above 16. However, half the person is still exposed to the blast.
Perhaps a better mechanism would be to reduce the Power of the grenade blast
by the percentage of cover that the person has, provided that the cover
holds. If the cover doesn't hold, then the portion of the grenade Power
that would have been reduced by the cover blasts through, at an
appropriately reduced Power.
