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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Levitator" data-source="post: 2820424" data-attributes="member: 40099">Thanks for the simplification on the vitality/wound system genshou!  That helps explain the premise of it a little better for me <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=":)" />   I'm going to play around with it, but doesn't it get a little complicated with criticals and special attacks?  I'd love to actually sit in on a group using this system, especially to hear the DM's description of battle.  The one thing I like about our current system is that DM Genie keeps a detailed log of every action in the game.  So when the fighter attacks, it tells me his bonuses, the defender's bonuses, his attack and damage roll, and the defender's opposed roll (we use the opposed roll variant).  This gives me a great deal of information so I know how much it missed by and was a whiff, or a dodge or the armor absorbing the shot.  I can tell a lot by comparing the 2 rolls together.  The fighter rolls a 12 which would normally miss under regular rules, but the defender rolls a 2 for his opposed roll.  I could describe it something like, "you react slowly to a sudden opening and manage a somewhat unspired thrust.  But, your opponent tries to move and instead of dodging the halfhearted strike, he moves directly into it and you slice your blade into his body."Woudl I be able to to use the same log descriptor with the W/V system with all of the same variables?  Is it only the actual damage that changes in this type of system?</blockquote>

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