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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 354442" data-attributes="member: 2804">I'm an old Champions fan and I too had a lot of problems with the slowness of combat.&nbsp; I came up with several fixes and house rules over the years.First of all, I have made combat much faster by giving everyone an AC equal to 10+DCV and then the attacker rolls d20+OCV to see if they hit.Because using a d20 results in linear probability instead of a bell curve system, I have found that hits in combat are more common.&nbsp; To remedy this I have given everyone more BODY.&nbsp; I start them off with 20 instead of 10 and also give more STUN.&nbsp; I have halved the cost of STUN.I also have come up with the optional rule of calculating damage.&nbsp; For killing attacks, I just multiply by 3 or 4 for STUN damage.&nbsp; When doing normal damage I have two alternative systems.&nbsp; In one I roll STUN normally and then divide the result by 3 to determine the amount of BODY done by the attack.&nbsp; This works much faster than counting all the dice to see the BODY done.To really speed things up, you can also just roll one die and then multiply it by the number of dice you do.&nbsp; Ex. If you have a 8d6 energy blast you roll 1d6x8 to determine STUN damage.&nbsp; This method has some drawbacks though.&nbsp; Its easier to do max damage and having large defenses or STUN becomes very important.&nbsp; Which means that hits doing less damage don't really hurt you.&nbsp; Thus you have the problem of either taking no damage or being taken out in one hit.&nbsp; So I don't use this method very much.Other ways of speeding up combat include not keeping track of END.&nbsp; Which is not always a very good idea because some high point powers are balanced by the fact that you pay END to use them.If you don't like the SPD chart you can also make SPD somewhat akin to Palladium's attacks per melee system.&nbsp; So you would roll initiative and then taking turns attacking where 1 SPD=1 attack or action.&nbsp; This method also requires some tweaking to make it work and there is the classic Palladium problem of guys with a low number of attacks running out of actions and basically standing still while they get pummelled by characters with more attacks.&nbsp; But its much faster than keeping track of segments and a SPD chart.Any thoughts or criticisms of these ideas?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 354442, member: 2804"] I'm an old Champions fan and I too had a lot of problems with the slowness of combat. I came up with several fixes and house rules over the years. First of all, I have made combat much faster by giving everyone an AC equal to 10+DCV and then the attacker rolls d20+OCV to see if they hit. Because using a d20 results in linear probability instead of a bell curve system, I have found that hits in combat are more common. To remedy this I have given everyone more BODY. I start them off with 20 instead of 10 and also give more STUN. I have halved the cost of STUN. I also have come up with the optional rule of calculating damage. For killing attacks, I just multiply by 3 or 4 for STUN damage. When doing normal damage I have two alternative systems. In one I roll STUN normally and then divide the result by 3 to determine the amount of BODY done by the attack. This works much faster than counting all the dice to see the BODY done. To really speed things up, you can also just roll one die and then multiply it by the number of dice you do. Ex. If you have a 8d6 energy blast you roll 1d6x8 to determine STUN damage. This method has some drawbacks though. Its easier to do max damage and having large defenses or STUN becomes very important. Which means that hits doing less damage don't really hurt you. Thus you have the problem of either taking no damage or being taken out in one hit. So I don't use this method very much. Other ways of speeding up combat include not keeping track of END. Which is not always a very good idea because some high point powers are balanced by the fact that you pay END to use them. If you don't like the SPD chart you can also make SPD somewhat akin to Palladium's attacks per melee system. So you would roll initiative and then taking turns attacking where 1 SPD=1 attack or action. This method also requires some tweaking to make it work and there is the classic Palladium problem of guys with a low number of attacks running out of actions and basically standing still while they get pummelled by characters with more attacks. But its much faster than keeping track of segments and a SPD chart. Any thoughts or criticisms of these ideas? [/QUOTE]

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