Re: Star Wars: Armour and damage: straw poll

gleichman wrote:
> "Simon Smith" <simon_smith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> There's two ways you could handle the effects of armour;
>>
>> 1. Reduce the incoming damage by the armour rating, one dice cancels 
>> out one
>>   dice, and roll the remainder, if any, against strength.
> 
> Go with this one, you like and the advantages you list for the second 
> are already basically forfeit when you went with a system that allows 
> Wookies to walk through blaster fire in the first place.

It seems to me that the real problem is how very *coarsegrained* the 
system is, for those situations where plusses don't matter. You end up 
having only five or six values, from 1d6 to 5d6, and maybe up to 6d6.

AFAIK the actual WEG system is 3 times as finegrained, with the scale 
going 1d6, 1d6+1, 1d6+2, 2d6, 2d6+1, 2d6+2, 3d6...

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