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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9801278" data-attributes="member: 984">And thank you for reading them.  <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=":)" />  If you (and anyone else) do give the 2d8 rules a try I'd be keen on hearing your experience and/or any feedback -- I playtested them here, but as always we play a certain way and so we may well not have encountered something that doesn't quite work.  Hmmm, that gets me thinking that one quick way to add a bit of a bonus to ACs in the game without needing to change a lot (like different stability damage values/etc) is just to say "if you need to make a piloting roll due to damage and you were hit by an AC this round, +1 to the difficulty".  For extra oomph, you could add "If you are hit with an AC, you must make a PSR at +0 regardless of the damage taken."  Both of those though might need to be tailored so that AC/2s don't become overly powerful, as a failed PSR can really ruin your day.  (I can share the story of my pilot that took a dirt nap for 88% of an entire battle.  Though he ended up winning the whole battle for us kind of because of it... )  Hmm again, if we update AC/2 damage to instead be an AC/3 (which is a common houserule I'm told), we could write the rule "if you take more than 5 points of AC damage..."  though that would add another thing to track.</blockquote>

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