The Damage System might work for a more gritty game like AFMBE though. I also
toyed with getting rid of Life Points altogether and come up with something
along the lines of Mutants and Mastermind's damage system. But that would be a
lot of work.

--- In lordoftherings_unisystem@yahoogroups.com, "humannoydd" <humanoyd@...>
wrote:
>
> Well, as I said it rewards skill over STR. That may or may not be realistic
but it was something I felt was necessary given the high STR of Orcs and Trolls.
It makes an elf with a 2 STR and a high skill a very credible threat to such
creatures. All that being said it would be simplicity itself to ignore the
changes I made to the damage system and just go with traditional CineU system.
>
> In fact I would suggest not using the Damage Track that I proposed. I found
as I ran my game that while it made things a bit grittier as was intended it
ultimately didn't work for LotR. It made my players VERY reluctant to take
risks for fear of the consequences of taking a major wound. While this is a
practical POV it didn't really foster the Heroics I was expecting from them.
Once I dropped it they became much less timid and the game improved.
>
>
> --- In lordoftherings_unisystem@yahoogroups.com, "tywyll" <cam_lists@> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting. Thanks for the feedback.
> >
> > I guess one thing I'm curious about is what advantage does this system have
over the Cinematic Unisystem damage resolution? What disadvantage (if any) does
it have?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > --- In lordoftherings_unisystem@yahoogroups.com, "humannoydd" <humanoyd@>
wrote:
> > >
> > > I understand your concern about DEX being a god stat but in play it didn't
really work out that way. Ultimately skill was the most important stat. Which
is pretty much what I was shooting for. When I was making the game I ran a
couple of test combats and noticed that many of the standard enemies in LotR
(trolls and orcs) have a high STR. Because of that I realized that the PCs
wouldn't really last long in fights. Hence the change.
> > >
> > > In my campaign the two deadliest warriors of the party were a dwarf who
had a 6 STR and a high ax skill and a human warrior with a 2 STR and
Ambidexterity and a REALLY high knife skill. They had very different styles in
battle but both were very effective in a fight. The Dwarf actually cut a Troll
down with a single blow at one point and few of his foes could actually survive
a hit by him unless they were hiding behind a shield. Then it would take two
blows. :D
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In lordoftherings_unisystem@yahoogroups.com, "tywyll" <cam_lists@>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if this board is still active or not but thought I'd aska
question.
> > > >
> > > > I came across the LoTR again recently and was giving it a deep read. I
noticed the damage system as an interesting departure from Classic and Lite
system.
> > > >
> > > > My only concern with it is that it seems to make Dex an even more
godlike stat for fighters. Str seems to be less important if Dex (and skill)
drives the majority of damage, and the strong but slow concept seems to become
obsolete. Dex also allows you to go more quickly, and avoid damage. It becomes
/way/ more important than Str.
> > > >
> > > > Bare in mind, this is merely from number crunching in my head, I've not
actually play tested it. I was wondering how this has panned out in play.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers!
> > > >
> > >
> >
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