| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | (un)armed combat - melee |
| Date: | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:49:34 +0200 |
the street was...
> Something about melee strikes me as odd,...when someone tries to strike at
> another, both make their melee rolls and the one with the highest number of
> successess wins,
Precisely. This isn't AD&D where the target stands more or less still
waiting for you to make an attack that either bounces off the target's
armor, or finds an opening in it.
> ...does this also apply to people who are off-guard,
Those would not get to use their Combat Pool.
> ...people who are surprised,
Ditto.
> people who are busy doing something else,
Again, the same as above.
> ...people who have spent their combat phase shooting at others and are
> currently standing there with an assault rifle.
They could use the rifle to block, or as a melee weapon. (Note: don't do
it as in the TV series Sharpe *grumble &%^&# Net 5 grumble &#%^&*$
Wimbledon grumble* or you'll end up with half a rifle pretty soon.)
> If it does, then do they get a penalty to their target number? This is
> all very vague,...
SR melee combat _is_ vague; most attempts to make it less so only
complicate matters so much that it's easier to go back to the vague system
than to use the more accurate one... The way to penalize charactrs who are
not "on guard" is to deny them their Combat Pool, as that way they'll
often have a lot less dice to roll and so will be easier to hit.
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