| From: | Lars Wagner Hansen l-hansen@*****.tele.dk |
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| Subject: | [SR] Movement Question? |
| Date: | Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:46:21 +0200 |
his
> :or her full movement in a combat round. That movement must be divided
> :evenly among the phases in which that character acts. So if a really fast
> :character who acts 3 times in a round is fighting another character who
> :gets a bad initiative roll and only acts once in the round the character
> :who only acts once gets to move his full movement, while the faster
> :character has to divide his movement by three and waste those actions
> :catching up... Is that right? I don't think I understand the reasoning
> :there.
>
> Yep, that's right. Its silly, but that's how it works. Even sillier,
> imagine this. An adept whats to puch a guy who's standing across the room
> about to draw a gun. He's just far enough away that the adept needs to
use
> his full movement to reach the guy. The guy with the gun rolls a 7 on
> intiaitve. Easy to beat. The adept rolls an 11. Ooops, he can only move
> half his movement. BANG, dead adept. If the adept had rolled a 9
instead,
> he'd be OK. To bad he rolled so "good".
> Unfortunately, there's really no easy fix that dosn;t change the
> inaitive system and / or creat new problems and imbalances. The best way
> around it is for the GM to know the situations where it might cause
trouble,
> and just use GM perogative to change the result in that situation to what
it
> "should" be.
In this case I actually like the SR2 rules better than the SR3 rules. In SR2
you run in any one of your actions, and walk in all your other actions. This
actually also means that the more actions you get, the longer you mave over
the whole combat round.
Alternatively you should divide all the characters movement over the
initiative passes. So if one charecter gets 3 initiative passes (as the
highest), then everybody would divide their movement by 3, and get to move
in each initiative pass.
Lars
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