SLAVICSEK's house rules

[ebertran]

https://rancorpit.com/forums/downloads/1e_and_IAG_Supplements/Bill_Slavicsek_1e_House_Rules_Sheet.pdf


Is it me, or am I missing something?

It seems he ignores range in his house rules, so the difficulty number to hit is the target's Defense, and that's it... range is completely ignored in his house rules.

I also like removing the opposed roll aspect of combat, but I do not ignore range...

Here's how I modify an attack...

Point Blank/ Hand-to-Hand +10,
Short Range +5
Medium Range -5
Long Range -10

[CRMcNeill]

I'd take it a step further and give different modifiers to weapons based on their usefulness at a given range. A rifle, for example, might be used without modifiers for range, while a pistol would have reduced Difficulty at Point Blank, slightly increased Difficulty at Short and hugely increased Difficulty (assuming it would even be allowed to attempt a shot at all) at Medium. Long Range would be out of the question for a pistol.
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The CRMcNeill Stat/Rule Index

[ebertran]

That's a level of granularity I'd embrace if someone did the work for it and posted it somewhere, but not something I'd take on myself!

[CRMcNeill]

[ThrorII]

I'm only 4 years late to this conversation, but I just read Bill's house rules, and am proud to say that I had also independently come up with similar rules that work real well and real cinematic for a 1e game.

For multi-attacks in 1 round, I just have the character take the die penalty all at once and make 1 roll. So if the character is has Blaster 4D and is taking 3 shots at three different stormtroopers, he rolls 2D to hit and that roll is applied to all three targets.

I use MiniSix "Static Defense", where 3D+2 of dodge gives a target number of 11 to be hit, modified by range (Point Blank -5, Close +0, Medium +5, Long +10). I dropped individual weapon ranges for static ranges and just limited weapons to certain ranges (Heavy Blaster Pistol is Medium Range max, Hold Out Blaster is Close Range max, Rifles are +0 for Point Blank, but only +5 for Long). I also have 'cinematic' range bands instead of fixed "meters". Point blank is inside a small room or 'hand to hand' range; Close is across a large room; Medium range is across a hanger bay; Long is several streets away.

I use MiniSix "Static Damage Resistance" where 3D+2 Strength gives a target number of 11 for damage resistance (<11 is Stun; = or > is Wound; > to 2x is Incapacitated; and > to 3x is dead.

Possibly most controversially, I ditched standard 1e Force rules and adapted a version of HyperSpace D6's system: Each power uses one Force skill, with a Target Number to hit to do it. For example, lifting a small object is Alter TN5, disarming someone is Alter TN10, lifting a man-sized creature or a Force Push is Alter TN15, while lifting a starfighter is Alter TN20.

I do enforce Force skill increase training requirements, and only allow ANY single skill to be increased by +1 pip per adventure completion.
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