Topic: "SHARP"...Simplified HARP...

[pming]

Hiya.

  Color me surprised, but I just spend about an hour (or less) writing up a one pager that has ideas for using a more "simplified" resolution for HARP. I know there was that whole "d20ified" document, but, IMHO, too much to bother with. What I did was simply 'divide/multiply' any % roll stuff by 5; rounding down for 2, up for 3. In other words, a HARP bonus of +27 is a +5, while a +28 gives a +6.

  Anyway, only the "%'age" stuff really needs to be converted...as that's where the slowdown my group and I experienced when we played HARP. It started off fine, but after only about 2 hours the math was just getting in the way. Adding 7 to a roll of 12 is easier than adding 33 to a roll of 58...even more so when to get that 7 you had to take 4 -1 +2 +2, and not 18 -5 +9 +12. Toss in being the end of the night and/or a beer or Brown Cow or two and we gave up.

 So...has anyone else "simplified" HARP's core mechanic to be, well, simplified?

[Witchking20k]

I only roll the 10s dice for NPCs when I roll.  Generally, if the two 10s (one from the roll & 1 from the skill) exceed the target number, the one are irrelevent.  If you roll a 90, or 00, then roll the 1s dice to check for high/low open-ended rolls.  For Combat, add 1D10 to the crit.

[Gerrit]

Hi pming,

I simplified the character creation (actually I expand the d20fied-document). The calculations and the creation process are less time-consuming. And the system is now a true D20-based system (not a D100-System with subsequent conversions).

P.S.: If you see some mistakes in writing, please post them to me (I'd like to improve my poor English skills).

[jasonbrisbane]

Hi,

Use the drunkards rule and make it simpler.

Dont worry about exacts when calculating... just make informed guesses...

eg: 134 + 47 = 130+40 = 170+10 for the extras = 180ish... close enough.

[Maelstrom]

Shouldn't that be 134 + 47 --> 130 + 50 = 180 ??

[Thom @ ICE]

No - the way he did it was to take the ten's  130 + 40 = 170 and then added 10 for the ones.

[Maelstrom]

More work his way.   

[SamwiseSeven]

I thought that dividing everything by 10 might make things much easier.  Though, I'm sure that will cause some problems, hehe.