| From: | Jonathan Hurley <jhurley1@************.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: SRII Lethality |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:25:43 -0500 |
> Hey guys:
>
> What do you think about the lethality level of the Shadowrun combat
system
> overall? This includes melee, guns, explosives, and magic.
>
> If it's too lethal, why do you think it's too lethal? Too easy to stage
up
> damage? Too hard to stage it down? Power too high?
>
> If it's not lethal enough, again, why? Staging? Power? Damage Levels?
>
> The general consensus I seem to get (here and on r.g.f.c) is that
Shadowrun
> isn't lethal enough. Either it's too easy for characters to resist
damage, or
> too hard to get it up to an appropriate level of lethality.
The lethality isn't consistent. I had a situation in my last game where I
had some difficulty wounding a PC by having a ganger fire a shotgun (8S) at
him. On the other hand, healing takes too long for any character with more
than about 3 points of essence installed that wounding someone mid-run
means that they are going to spend the rest of the session at a wound
penalty, which is always bad.
I think that the lethality of the system is OK on a gross level, but it
breaks down when the characters have a much higher skill/stat level than
their opposition, and there are curious side-effects of some of the rules.
--
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Jonathan Hurley (mailto:jhurley1@************.edu)
