From:	"Leszek Karlik, aka Mike" <trrkt@*****.ONET.PL>
Subject:	Re: Melee Combat Revisited
Date:	Wed, 31 Dec 1997 14:22:32 +0000

On 30 Dec 97, George H Metz disseminated foul capitalist propaganda
by writing:

<snip>

> Not quite. This dates back to a method he mentioned, based on
> unarmed
> combat. What he was basically saying is that there's no way someone
> with an unarmed combat skill of 4 or 5 with Wired-3 plus a few other
> speed goodies should be losing to a stock human martial arts master
> with an unarmed combat of 10 or 12. I don't remember the original
> concept he came up with, but I remember I didn't like it. This one,
> however, has some potential merit. however, the suggestion that it
> be made +2TN for every 10 segments or part thereof would not and
> should not work, simply because if my initiative is 33 and my
> opponent's is 34, I suddenly get a +2 TN because he's roughly 2
> milliseconds faster.

Well, the method I use is that for every 5 full points of initiative
difference, the faster guy gets -1 to his TN. Of course, this should
be revised to "per full 10 points" or something, 'cause I have
stol^H^H^H adopted a method I saw here - each +1d6 to initiative just
reduces the time between your actions by 2. That means people with
high Reaction go faster, as they react faster. People with more dice
are still able to go a few more times in the round, but high reaction
makes you go first... (And since I also use the "Physical adept
revised" rules from the Graveyard, Physads usually have higher
reaction and less dice than a comparable sammie... Making them go
faster, but not as deadly as one would think otherwise. )


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