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<blockquote data-quote="Kavon" data-source="post: 1364393" data-attributes="member: 9822"><p>Hey Sonofapreacherman <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I read through your variant combat system some days ago (3 or 4.. don't remember if I read something about this or not), and I just found this topic, and I got reminded of my halfhearted attempt at a similar sort of system I tried to make once.</p><p></p><p>When I was playtesting it in my campaign, one of my players kept aiming for the heads of his enemies (he was an archer, with a hefty bonus on his ranged attacks) to avoid the damage reduction (I made it into a Diminutive target, but he didn't care, since he'd hit anyway).</p><p>Any reason why that wouldn't work with this? It made enemies easier for him to beat you see, with targets who had EC 8-12 (+4 for Diminutive) or so without their AC added to it, and I didn't see why he wouldn't be able to aim for their heads instead of their entire body (which would be be easier to hit, but would have the AC to deal with). I even made them wear helmets one time, and he still aimed for the opening at the front with the +8 for Fine... (I guess he's still used to taking called shots, from when we played AD&D 2nd edition <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek! :o" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> )</p><p></p><p>Not even sure if it's really a problem, it was just something I hadn't considered when I was making it, and I was wondering what your stance was on it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kavon, post: 1364393, member: 9822"] Hey Sonofapreacherman :) I read through your variant combat system some days ago (3 or 4.. don't remember if I read something about this or not), and I just found this topic, and I got reminded of my halfhearted attempt at a similar sort of system I tried to make once. When I was playtesting it in my campaign, one of my players kept aiming for the heads of his enemies (he was an archer, with a hefty bonus on his ranged attacks) to avoid the damage reduction (I made it into a Diminutive target, but he didn't care, since he'd hit anyway). Any reason why that wouldn't work with this? It made enemies easier for him to beat you see, with targets who had EC 8-12 (+4 for Diminutive) or so without their AC added to it, and I didn't see why he wouldn't be able to aim for their heads instead of their entire body (which would be be easier to hit, but would have the AC to deal with). I even made them wear helmets one time, and he still aimed for the opening at the front with the +8 for Fine... (I guess he's still used to taking called shots, from when we played AD&D 2nd edition :o ) Not even sure if it's really a problem, it was just something I hadn't considered when I was making it, and I was wondering what your stance was on it. ;) [/QUOTE]
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