Leif's DISCONTINUED GURPS Traveller Game -- IC01

[Insight]

OOC: When Kaira has completed aiming (however long that takes), she fires a shot at the incoming beast. I don't have my books with me as I type this, so it may require some editing later. Technically, her skill is 1 higher due to the sight on her rifle. Not sure what aiming gives her, but I would think at least 1 more. She hit the thing by 5 or 6, I guess. According to my read of the Aim action (p. 364 of Campaigns), aiming gives Kaira a +12 (!) to her Rifle skill. That's insane! Also, I noticed that the rifle has a Rate of Fire of 4. I guess that means I should read the autofire rules. I've read the autofire rules (aka Rapid Fire, p. 373-374 of Campaigns) and there's zero reason Kaira would ever want to fire single shot. The reason for this is that the laser rifle has no recoil, so firing multiple shots not only gives her a bonus to her attack, but also gives her an excellent chance to get multiple hits with no penalty for doing so. If it's OK with Leif, I'd like to retcon it and have Kaira fire her rifle properly. If so, Kaira hits the thing four times and I'll roll 3 more sets of dice for damage. Sorry, one more edit. The Laser Rifle in 3rd ed Traveller doesn't quite match up stat-wise with the ones listed in 4th ed Ultra Tech. I'm defaulting to the "Survival Rifle" in Ultra Tech where warranted.

Kaira steadies her plasteel rifle and cooks off a laser at the lumbering croubek.

 

[Shayuri]

(OOC - 1 turn of Aim lets you add your weapons Accuracy modifier, which for laser rifle is pretty high. Additional turns of aiming give additional bonuses. And yeah, laser weapons should fire bursts unless they're low on ammo.)

 

[Leif]

OOC: Insight, Kaira's laser rifle does 5d damage, not 4d (see page 280 in GURPS 4E), but I'll just add 5 to the 11 you rolled for 16 total damage. Will that work?

Kaira's first laser strike is deflected/reflected somewhat by the Croubek's hard, angular exoskeleton, still it staggers under the fire, but it is not stunned and it does not fall. It continues to lumber toward the Travellers. I guess you'd better go ahead with your other damage, [MENTION=11437]Insight[/MENTION], and finish this thing off.
[sblock=Croubek stats]
ST 20, DX 8, IQ 4, HT 13, Dodge 9, HP defaults to 20, DR=10, damage (claw/pincer) 3d-2
current hp= 20-6=14
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[Scotley]

OOC: Heh! I know it involves rolling 3d6, and I know that skills and circumstance bonuses and penalties affect the Target Number instead of the number rolled, and a character is more successful the lower the roll is. So you can go ahead and give me a roll now if you want, and we'll sort it out later?

OOC: a 3 or 4 is a critical hit, and a 17 or 18 is a critical failure. I'm interested to see whether the Luck of Scotley holds true when you're going for LOW rolls!!

OOC: hmm, got a 13, so I guess not.

[sblock=Leif]You have been more than patient with me, I'm sorry to be such a slow learner when it comes to GURPS. I'm going to get my together this weekend or withdraw from the game in shame. I'm off to have a root canal on one tooth and a surgical extraction of another at the dentist this afternoon. Somehow the root of my tooth splintered under a crown and a spur of the tooth is ripping its way out of my gums. I don't expect to be good for much for a couple of days. NPC Spider as needed. [/sblock]

 

[Leif]

OOC: Best wishes for a speedy recovery and total lack of further pain, My Oldest, Bestest Friend!

OOC: I have my doubts whether a 13 hits, but I'm just not sure. Anything to add, Oh Wise GURPS masters, Shayuri and/or Insight, or anyone else who knows? And any additional attacks coming, Zoe, Jimmy, and/or Gruff, and the rest of Kaira's shots, too?

[sblock=Scotley]
[MENTION=11520]Scotley[/MENTION], did I hear you mention the dreaded "w" word, as in "withdraw"?? No, no, no, no, no! I'm not letting you off that easy, my friend!
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[Insight]

OOC: I have my doubts whether a 13 hits, but I'm just not sure. Anything to add, Oh Wise GURPS masters, Shayuri and/or Insight, or anyone else who knows? And any additional attacks coming, Zoe, Jimmy, and/or Gruff, and the rest of Kaira's shots, too?

OOC: You just roll against your Rifle skill. If you roll equal to or less than the skill, you hit. In terms of the autofire thing, Kaira hit with all 4 shots (I rolled the extra damage above). You take your skill and subtract the recoil value from it for each shot to see how many hit. So, in Kaira's case, she rolled an 8 and her effective skill, with aiming, was like 31. The recoil on her laser rifle is 1, so she hit the thing by (31 - Kaira's roll of 8 = 23). If the rifle had a ROF of 23, she would have hit it 23 times. EDIT: Honestly, it doesn't make much sense to me to allow aiming with autofire. If we take autofire out of the equation, she still rolled under her skill by 4 and would have hit 4 times.

 

[Leif]

Inthe/Glisten (supposedly) en route to Edenelt/Trin's Veil

Kaira opens up and just about cuts the poor Croubek in half with her withering fire. 'Combat' over.

OOC: Strangely enough, Scotley, when I looked for Spider in the RG last night, I couldn't find even a post for him at all. Am I going crazy here, or is someting else going on? I know I've seen Spider's RG page before!

 

[Leif]

Inthe/Glisten (supposedly) en route to Edenelt/Trin's Veil

OOC: Insight, I'm still not convinced that I want to use hit locations since it is only an optional rule, but, since you rolled it, I checked, and on the "cancroid" table (and in fact on every single one of the creature type tables and the humanoid table, too) a 10 is a torso hit. Center Mass baby! Kaira cooked 'im! (But this was just a smallish Croubek.)

 

[Scotley]

Kaira opens up and just about cuts the poor Croubek in half with her withering fire. 'Combat' over.

OOC: Strangely enough, Scotley, when I looked for Spider in the RG last night, I couldn't find even a post for him at all. Am I going crazy here, or is someting else going on? I know I've seen Spider's RG page before!

OOC: I sent you a first draft way back when the game started. Never got a final copy done and in the RG.

 

[Leif]

OOC: Bad, bad Scotley!

IC: So the Travellers are now the proud(?) owners of one ex-Croubek. There are a few more "humps" in the cave floor that may or may not be other Croubeks. [But whatcha gonna do with the one you now have? ]