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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 6236868" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Maybe not too pertinent to the action system, but I'll take the gedanken exercise.Can a creature survive PCs going nova?  Yes.Can all creatures survive PCs going nova?  No.Can combat end up as an unfun grind?Good question.  Health/HP are generally low in Modos RPG, since you get 1 per level, or 4 if you spend a perk/feat on it.  With low health and attacks that deal a minimum of 1 damage, you can almost put a counter on the number of rounds that combat will last.There are several dice to roll; one to attack, one for defense, one for damage, one to reduce that damage (protection) and we're establishing, in this thread, that the defense roll gets used very selectively.  So that could be unfun, but enter the take half rule: you can skip ANY die roll and just take half of the highest result.  So that could eliminate a lot of die rolling.What if the monster's so tough that it takes forever to kill him?  1st thought: monsters won't have too much health.  A 15th level monster won't have much more than, say, 35 health.  Now, granted, that could mean 9 rounds of fighting if each of four party members does one point of damage per round.  That's if the monster doesn't have any healing abilities.There's another built-in cap: the dice.  Weapons and armor improve by die, so if there's only a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20, then d20s can start getting thrown around by level 6, and combat could look like this:Attacker: I swing my epic Sire-of-Excalibur, for 1d20 damage.  18!Unfun defender: not interested in getting any less than a 10 on protection with my green dragon armor, so I take half on d20 for a difference of 8 damage.  Ouch.Epic weapons then, and/or spells could make for epic, but rather short-ish, battles.Back to PCs going nova: casters will be cautious about spells in this game: cast too much and you'll knock yourself out (technically, it's called catatonic).  And metaphysical health (MP) return hourly, so with 1st-level spells averaging 5.5 (or 5 on a take half) MP, a PC would recharge one first level spell in 5.5 hours, or 2.75 if he's concentrating.  GMs that allow a party to start a fight and then go undisturbed for 8+ hours: go back to GM school, please.</blockquote>

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