Topic: About sizes

[luzbel]

Is minuscule the minimun size attack? What happens if you shock bolt a dragon?  Table 9.4 have no high end but say nothing below -4 size.
I guess a Y critical is like a Z critical but with 2 reductions. I cant find info about Y.

[EltonJ]

Large and Super Large creatures have their own critical tables.  There is a tiny attack table located in Arms Law, 2003.

[rdanhenry]

EltonJ's answer is correct for past editions of RM, but the question is clearly about RMU, for which that answer is false.

Minuscule is the minimum attack size. A Shock Bolt against a dragon? Let's assume a fairly small dragon, of only Big size. The size adjustments for the Shock Bolt are already built into the Minuscule Lightning Bolt table and we don't have to worry about them. If the bolt hits, the dragon suffers the number of hits listed and takes a critical reduced according to its size. As a Big creature, this dragon only has the critical reduced one step. If it were a Huge dragon, the critical would be reduced three steps. (See Table 9-4b.)

Iuzbul, you are correct about Y criticals. I pointed out in the Core Law release type thread that these were not explained in text, but after the "final" version was completed. This may be the most important erratum.

[jdale]

In principle if you were playing a game focused on tiny PCs, you might use even smaller creatures as animals (e.g. regular ants). But otherwise anything that small is functionally irrelevant when it comes to making attacks per se. (They might still be threats for example as carriers of disease.)

Originally the attack tables only went down to Small and consequently the lowest critical severity was Z. But when we put in the shock bolt and shock ball tables, we didn't catch that there are some Y criticals there that should have been explained. For miniscule attacks on other tables, you are likely to get even lower severities, it's just that lightning bolt and lightning ball start off pretty high before the size reductions.

[luzbel]

Thx a lot everybody