Our group has been playing a year long compaign and I’ve finally got to a point that I’ll put down while we play something else for a 6 month break. We’ve been using mainly a modified RMSS with the fast combat system and some classes and spell lists ported over from the early companions
A few things I as GM don’t really like is the minimal number of hits most attacks do and the pure randomness of the crits. using the fast combat system fixes the number of hits issue, but the fast combat crits suck. Just had.
Anyway, I have given some thought to when we pick back up doing the following:
Primary damage is determined by total roll + OB - DB result is as follows:
75 hits for normal dice damage
125 hits for dice damage x2
126+ Starts adding critical effects as follows: total of the roll minus 100 checked against large creature normal critical strike table and for magical spell effects like fireball, lightning bolt, etc use the large creature magical critical strike table.
Really simple - still does a large number of hits and still only requires one roll open ended and gives additional hits and covers stun and bleeding effects.
To handle Secondary effects for weapons with special or magic secondary critical effects (use last d100 rolled from attack for the effect of the secondary critical)
Total to hit (less dB and other modifiers )
150 - A Crit
175 - B Crit
200 - C Crit
225 - D Crit
250 - E Crit
300 - E and A, progressing each 50
For special effects that are reduced severity from the main attack, add the reduced amount to the total required for the crit (ie heat crit 1 level less severity would be 175 for an A and progress from there).
Personally I dislike lucky instant death effects so those are replaced as follows:
For death effects listed in crits, replace 'dies' with 'goes unconscious, (-75 incapacitation) and 6 bleeding wound'. Ignore effects that knock the attacker out (those are stupid) As that’s pretty stupid and a punishment for rolling really well.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
