Has any RPG system ever used…

[Dannyalcatraz]

…a system like Star Fleet Battles or Battletech/Crimson Skies to track character damage and incapacity?

The question popped into my head on my way home from a game store today. I’m familiar with over 100 different systems- mostly the big names- but cannot recall any taking this approach.

 

[darjr]

I think Twilight: 2000 did. Had a cool figure graphic to track damage and everything.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Can you describe the system? I'm curious!

 

[prabe]

The One-Roll Engine (Godlike, Wild Talents, REIGN) has something like it.

 

[Davies]

If I understand what's being described, Top Secret SI assigned the parts of the body hit points and had the attack roll determine where something hit.

 

[MGibster]

Can you describe the system? I'm curious!

In BattleTech, you use a battlemech record shoot to keep track of the damage you take during the game. You have a certain amount of armor in each location and once someone gets through your armor you start taking hit to your internal systems. Getting hit in your insides is bad because you take critical system damage and if it happens to hit an ammo spot you might blow up sky high.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Oh how fun! This would be insane with D&D, I'd love to see it.

 

[billd91]

Cyberpunk 2013 kept track of wounds on specific locations. That version of their Friday Night Firefight got replaced fairly quickly with CP2020 where they tracked overall wound points.

 

[aramis erak]

…a system like Star Fleet Battles or Battletech/Crimson Skies to track character damage and incapacity?

The question popped into my head on my way home from a game store today. I’m familiar with over 100 different systems- mostly the big names- but cannot recall any taking this approach.

CORPS has separate tracks per location, with boxes.
THe number marked is the largest, plus one for each additional. The penalty is the number of boxes for the used locations (Head and chest are for almost all. Head for all.)

Mekton uses a system of boxes to track damage, as well, again by location... but in this case, the boxes are not the penalty. Other interlock games don't.

RuneQuest doesn't have tracks of boxes, but many people's homebrew sheets do. Same for many other BRP games. This is due to tracking HP to each location as well as to the overall HP.

The GDW House Engine (T2K 2.x, Dark Conspiracy, Traveller: The New Era, Cadilacs & Dinosaurs) has damage by hit location for PCs, but doesn't use the boxes, but again, some people's custom sheets do.

There are many more....

My sheets for Alien use boxes on the edges for HP, air, water, power, and food.... use a paperclip.

 

[niklinna]

BTRC's CORPS had such a thing.