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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 1896620" data-attributes="member: 725">I started looking at D20 Future ship combat last week. It's very D&D like, which makes it easier to learn, but it makes it very unwieldy. 24,000 hit points is just to unwieldy! Even the basic PL6 fighter has 160 hp, keeping track of individual hp is cumbersome, not to mention the buckets of dice you need to throw when doing damage.I was thinking of a streamlined fighter squadron vs. fighter squadron combat game based on D20 Future. My very first thought was to devide all the hp and damage by 10, that would decrease the time you need for keeping track of the hp and the time throwing and adding dice. Things like grappling and AoO rules would become optional (because very few fighters would have point defense systems or tracktor beams). The problem i found was that D20 Future just has very few options available, one fighter is exactly the same as any other. So now i'm looking at other OGC material for more options for fighters (anyone suggestions are welcome).Well, what has this to do with Large ships? Well, the problem i found with the D20 future rules for space combat is that they try to cover everything in the 'basic' rules, and no one thought that doing combat with vessels that have thousands of hitpoints would be slow (if not akward). Dividing the hitpoints and damage by 10 should improve game play, maybe even by 20 for such large combats. Removing the rules you won't need for a campaign also helps.</blockquote>

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