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raithyn
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 Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2023 8:59 pm Post subject: Damage Types |
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The start of my toying with D6 weapons is playing with damage type descriptions. Here is what I have so far:
Physical Damage
• Physical: cryoban damage is rolled normally but treat any result more serious than “stunned” as “immobilized until the end of the next round.” An immobilized creature cannot take any actions or use any skills that are based on movement.
• Physical: fire damage is inflicted each round until all flames affecting a character are extinguished. Energy Damage
• Energy: ionization damage only effects electrical systems.
• Energy: sonic damage attacks cannot be deflected with a lightsaber.
• Energy: stun damage is rolled normally but treat any result more serious than “stunned” as “unconscious for 2D minutes.” Droids, vehicles, and objects are immune to stun damage. Hybrid Damage• Targets resist hybrid damage with the lower of their physical or energy armor die codes.
The one unique type I don't have a standard definition for yet is entangle. It seems that while this always ties the character up in some measure, the mechanical impact is rarely the same between two instances. I don't have enough experience with the game to feel comfortable picking one as the universal standard to overwrite other versions.
I also debate whether carbonite or freezing damage is a better label. I'm using the former since all instances I've been interested in are specifically tied to carbonite but it may be useful to have the more general form.
Feedback on these and any important categories I'm missing is welcome.
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garhkal
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How would you see something like an acid attack? Or a flame thrower?
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raithyn
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A flamethrower does fire damage. There's only a single number for it's initial and DOT.
None of the weapons I've pulled do acid damage. Do you have any in particular I can reference? It's definitely a physical subtype. I'd either lean toward another DOT effect, just adding damage dice, or giving acid the potential to corrode worn equipment. That's all based on my experience with other games. |
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Phalanks Balas
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2023 10:51 am Post subject: |
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And what about grenades and thermal detonator ?
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raithyn
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Good question. I debated both for a while until I realized that I felt confident fire and carbonite attacks are both forms of physical damage. From there, it seemed logical to say standard frag grenades and thermal detonators are both physical damage as well, no subtype needed since there's no additional mechanical effect in play.
Stun, ion, and cryoban grenades all have matching physical or energy subtypes. Glop/adhesive/sticky grenades are entangle, so they don't do actual damage but will restrict movement. |
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garhkal
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| raithyn wrote: | A flamethrower does fire damage. There's only a single number for it's initial and DOT.
None of the weapons I've pulled do acid damage. Do you have any in particular I can reference? It's definitely a physical subtype. I'd either lean toward another DOT effect, just adding damage dice, or giving acid the potential to corrode worn equipment. That's all based on my experience with other games. |
Kevlarik Dissuader (galadiniums), does 3d phys, 3d acid.
And fire i was more on is that to you, energy, or physical (OR BOTH)?
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raithyn
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| garhkal wrote: | | And fire i was more on is that to you, energy, or physical (OR BOTH)? |
Sorry, I misunderstood. As Whill called out, I haven't specifically defined the top-level terms here. Honestly, I haven't needed to write them out anywhere in my own materials yet. My functional definition has been that energy damage is anything related to photons, lasers, plasma, or electricity while physical damage is anything related to material or thermodynamic impacts. If a weapon does pure damage without an additional effect (only affecting droids, immobilizing the target, etc.), it just gets one of those two top level labels with everything else being descriptive flavor.
I debated on the thermodynamic part but ultimately decided that since heat and cold can be resisted with cloth padding that a blaster bold would basically ignore, they should be resisted by physical armor. Therefore, fire damage is a subset of physical damage for my taxonomy.
As an aside, the bowcaster is the only weapon I assigned hybrid damage so far since it has an explosive metal quarrel sheathed in plasma. That also gives it a bit more punch. Per RAW, it's stats are worse than a standard blaster pistol.
| garhkal wrote: | | Kevlarik Dissuader (galadiniums), does 3d phys, 3d acid. |
Having now looked it up, I actually like the dissuader quite a bit. It's much more aesthetically pleasing than many of the surrounding weapons too.
| Quote: | | Damage: 3D; 3D acid burn damage for three rounds unless character has hardened materials which resist acids. |
This this a pretty well-defined damage over time (DOT) mechanic but there's no rules support for which materials resist acid and which don't. I think I'd need to rewrite that to specifically call out metal, glass, etc. so there's no confusion when running an open table with all-new players. |
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raithyn
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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Edit explanation: I changed carbonite damage to cryoban damage.
That's just a reflection of the fact that multiple chemical compounds might be used for a given attack to produce sub-zero temperatures. |
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