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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ddougan" data-source="post: 1500655" data-attributes="member: 11480">The fractional maths was a bit misleading - cos 2300AD weapons started off doing 0.x damage - so it would be easy to simply map this to "x".So if you wanted to do this for Twilight, I'd take the average damage for the weapon (say 10 for a 3D6 assault rifle), and then use a D20 for the severity.So:(1) Roll Hit Location (1D10)  1 = Head (+3 to severity)  2 = Heart/Chest (+2 to severity)  3 = Left Arm (-1 to severity)  4 = Right Arm (-1 to severity)  5 = Chest (+1 to severity)  6 = Abdomen (+1 to severity)  7 = Left Thigh (+0 to severity)  8 = Right Thigh (+0 to severity)  9 = Left Lower Leg (-1 to severity) 10 = Right Lower Leg (-1 to severity)(2) Determine Potential Severity (1D10 + hit location modifier)  1 = No Effect (scratch wound)  2,3,4,5 = Potential Light  6,7,8 = Potential Serious  9,10 = Potential KillAdditional modifiers to severity: +1 if Damage > 20; +2 if Damage > 30 etc(3) Determine Actual Severity (1D20 vs weapon damage)  If D20 roll <= Damage, then inflict potential severity as actual severity  If D20 roll > Damage, then inflict one less level of severity as actualA 20 is always considered to be > Damage (even if its a big gun doing more than 20 points of Damage)For D20 mechanics (say Spycraft), you could base this on Saving Throw (a bit like how they did it in Unearthed Arcana).Roll Hit LocationRoll Potential SeverityMake Saving Throw (DC = 5+ Amount of Damage)If the Saving Throw fails, then inflict potential severity as actualIf the Saving Throw succeeds, then inflict one less level of severity as actualThis would lead to a Spycraft without VP or Wounds (because your wound level imposes penalities - e.g. serious head = unconscious, serious arm = cant use it, serious leg = cant walk on it).I hear you. I don't think D20 is perfect for Twilight (I wouldnt use it in my perfect remake of TW2K) - I just think its completely capable of doing a great job on it (though again, I already dislike the T20 Twilight).And I agree that careful design needs to be done to correctly model class features, feats and skills.Some of the things you mentioned could be handled by proficiencies (this is actually one of the few things I disliked about the GDW House System - there wasn't really a good way of defining proficiency aside from skill - so anyone with Medical could do surgery, whereas in teh real world, you'd need to be proficient as a Heart Surgeon, or a Brain Surgeon etc. So in my perfect re-release of TW2K, there'd be skills that say how good you are at something, and additional proficiencies that say what complicated stuff you can do at your skill level (there could even be levels of proficiency - so Basic Brain Surgery (!!!) would be Medical with a -2 modifier, Normal Brain Surgery (!!!) would be Medical, and Advanced Brain Surgery would be Medical with +2 modifier).Oh definetly - since I'm foreign to you <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And lets not forget, much of Twilight was originally set in Europe, so I'd like to see it keep the flavour of German, French etc military.</blockquote>

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