Viewing_Glass wrote:You can do it with Brass Shoes if you are really good...or bare hoof on a buck. However, that takes three perks to pull off, or a trait and two perks.
As a side note, I am starting a game using this setting once the Stalliongrad game is finished. I made it public so you guys can see what I am doing (and different ideas I am testing). It is located here.
That is true, monsters get nice toys like thatGodna wrote:Well if you saw the stink up in the revisions thread. She had complaints about adding 10% to things, but lets not drag this in here. If nothing else we can add a rule allowing their DT to be perfect DT. Monsters get nice toys like that.
You're tempting me. I dunno if the character I'm itching to play next fits the setting though...Viewing_Glass wrote:You can do it with Brass Shoes if you are really good...or bare hoof on a buck. However, that takes three perks to pull off, or a trait and two perks.
As a side note, I am starting a game using this setting once the Stalliongrad game is finished. I made it public so you guys can see what I am doing (and different ideas I am testing). It is located here.
Dibs! <.< >.>Viewing_Glass wrote:You can do it with Brass Shoes if you are really good...or bare hoof on a buck. However, that takes three perks to pull off, or a trait and two perks.
As a side note, I am starting a game using this setting once the Stalliongrad game is finished. I made it public so you guys can see what I am doing (and different ideas I am testing). It is located here.
You're breakin' my heart!Viewing_Glass wrote:This will be a RL game, not an IRC game. Sorry guys. I was just leaving it up there so you guys could see what rules changes I was making for testing purposes. Sorry if there was any confusion.
I also didn't mention that radiation poisoning gives endurance and agility penalties - which lower your speed, which can straight-up kill you in this situation. On the other hand, shortening the distance so it takes any less than 5-6 minutes to run across feels like it does the place a disservice.TyrannisUmbra wrote:Well, part of the results of the math ended up being that because of the immense distance across, even tiny amounts of radiation tend to be lethal if you're trying to get across. When it takes 6 minutes to run across at full-speed and 12 minutes if you walk, any kind of serious distraction is likely to be fatal, no matter where you fight it. The thing about the numbers I mathed out is that they're absolutely tiny -- ideally a hotspot would have high levels of radiation... but when you consider that what tends to pass as "lethal" levels of radiation tends to be around 500 rads/second (clearly meant to kill without protection), with 'high' levels being around 30/second... To have numbers like that, the relative distance you'd have to cross under those conditions would have to be tiny in comparison to the rest of the belt.
Wicked radsick nasty, good luck with it!Viewing_Glass wrote:You can do it with Brass Shoes if you are really good...or bare hoof on a buck. However, that takes three perks to pull off, or a trait and two perks.
As a side note, I am starting a game using this setting once the Stalliongrad game is finished. I made it public so you guys can see what I am doing (and different ideas I am testing). It is located here.
Their.Unicorns can cast with the power of the shadows, creating devastating effects upon there opponents. Other races find the Shadow Magic bolsters there strength and heals them quickly, but at what cost?
Don't mind me, I was mostly rambling over it. The main thing comes from hotspots being survivable without radiation protection in its current incarnation -- if they weren't meant to be survivable at all, larger numbers could go in and make the whole thing look much more menacing. That plus, the larger numbers could mostly be within the last half-minute or so of the run or something. The current numbers I came up with are an average. It's a little complicated... Like I said, 2 miles is a damn long distance to be constantly gaining rads. Numbers I suppose would depend on just how lethal a hot zone should be without protection -- at the current estimated numbers of about 850 rads from crossing it unprotected, it's not very irradiated, all things considered.Thanqol wrote:I also didn't mention that radiation poisoning gives endurance and agility penalties - which lower your speed, which can straight-up kill you in this situation. On the other hand, shortening the distance so it takes any less than 5-6 minutes to run across feels like it does the place a disservice.
But then, I suppose very low numbers are what you get when you measure radiation only by 'per second'. Those numbers are much more scary when they're 'per minute', or even 'per round' (Both of those would be much more helpful at the table too).
In the video game you could just drop an area like this from the sky and cost the PC three, maybe four RadAways but when that number is multiplied across a party of six it's suddenly a much bigger deal.
I am fine conceptually with making Hot Spots lethal without radiation protection; I am just worried about 'Well, you failed a Luck-5 roll and now you are all dead. GG" which was why I phrased it a little under lethal dosage.TyrannisUmbra wrote:Don't mind me, I was mostly rambling over it. The main thing comes from hotspots being survivable without radiation protection in its current incarnation -- if they weren't meant to be survivable at all, larger numbers could go in and make the whole thing look much more menacing. That plus, the larger numbers could mostly be within the last half-minute or so of the run or something. The current numbers I came up with are an average. It's a little complicated... Like I said, 2 miles is a damn long distance to be constantly gaining rads. Numbers I suppose would depend on just how lethal a hot zone should be without protection -- at the current estimated numbers of about 850 rads from crossing it unprotected, it's not very irradiated, all things considered.
I have a thought for math... let me see what I can come up with.
What kind of lethality do you think is the right amount? Requires Rad-X, requires radiation suit, or requires both? For hotspots, I mean.Thanqol wrote:I am fine conceptually with making Hot Spots lethal without radiation protection; I am just worried about 'Well, you failed a Luck-5 roll and now you are all dead. GG" which was why I phrased it a little under lethal dosage.
On the other hoof, if the characters in a Fallout setting walk across a signposted radiation crater without radiation supplies they deserve to die. So go ahead, pump those numbers up - they need to be survivable but stage 4 poisoning nasty.
