Aces & Eights Shotgun demo/tutorial

[Jolly_Blackburn]

We just posted a short tutorial video on Youtube on how shotguns work in A&8.

Since there's been a lot of interest in how combat works in the game I thought I 'd point it out here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoKeLwqfIG8

 

[scourger]

Cool. Worth a bump, too.

 

[mhensley]

Very neat, but doesn't that slow combat down a lot?

My other thought at looking at this is - Man, this would be a cool system to use for Traveller combats!

 

[bolen]

cool you have made a sale at Gen Con

Does it matter where you hit. Do you have a HP system for areas of the body or just armor/protection of different areas?

 

[Jolly_Blackburn]

cool you have made a sale at Gen Con

Does it matter where you hit. Do you have a HP system for areas of the body or just armor/protection of different areas?

Yes it very much matters where you hit.

I'll try to post a follow up video to show how hits are handled.

Bascially each bullet/pellet has a damage rating (shotgun pellets are typically 1d4 with a result of '4' indicating you roll that die again for penetration).

After taking HP damage for the bullet you consult a table for the body part hit to determine what the resulting wound is.

So beyond the HP damage you could suffer a broken bone, loss of a limb, organ damage, etc. -- depending on where the bullet actually hit.


There's really no AC in A&8 but there's cover. So if the guy in he video had been standing behind a water barrel, or shooting out a window you would apply modifiers for cover/hardness.

I guess we can demo that in the next video as well.

 

[mhensley]

You guys may have hit upon a new type of product- rules on video! Imagine how cool it would be if you were to do a video explaining all the complex parts of a game and include (or sell separately) a dvd with the main rule book.

 

[bolen]

You guys may have hit upon a new type of product- rules on video! Imagine how cool it would be if you were to do a video explaining all the complex parts of a game and include (or sell separately) a dvd with the main rule book.

I just think that is funny (I know what you mean) But the first time I read it I heard "buy our product, no reading involved."

 

[Jaws]

I played Aces & Eights at the last ENWorld Chicago Gameday. It was a lot of fun. But I know my gaming group wouldn't go for it, unfortunately.


j.

 

[Jolly_Blackburn]

You guys may have hit upon a new type of product- rules on video! Imagine how cool it would be if you were to do a video explaining all the complex parts of a game and include (or sell separately) a dvd with the main rule book.

That's been our goal for quite some time. We're only just NOW getting around to bringing it into place.

We plan on doing a LOT of instructional videos (free) and incorporating them into our online support pages.

You can see the beginning of that process here: http://www.kenzerco.com/aces_n_eights/gameplay/shotclock.html (be sure to scroll down).

Look for more in a few days.

 

[Jolly_Blackburn]

Just a quick heads up.

We have two new A&8 tutorial/intro videos up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXKNb54fax4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zaZ0vBVTpI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoKeLwqfIG8&mode=related&search=


Nothing fancy. We're keeping these simple and straight forward.

The first three videos deal with combat and the shot clock.

Future videos will overview some of the micro-games and other rulesets.