Scaling: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:15, 14 September 2011

For the sake of balancing the various weapons I was forced to alter the basic scale chart of:

	Character	Speeder	Walker	Starfighter
Character	(+0D)	(+2D)	(+4D)	(+6D)
Speeder	(-2D)	(+0D)	(+2D)	(+4D)
Walker	(-4D)	(-2D)	(+0D)	(+2D)
Starfighter	(-6D)	(-4D)	(-2D)	(+0D)

to the following:

	Character	Speeder	Walker	Starfighter
Character	(+0D)	(+6D)	(+12D)	(+18D)
Speeder	(-6D)	(+0D)	(+6D)	(+12D)
Walker	(-12D)	(-6D)	(+0D)	(+6D)
Starfighter	(-18D)	(-12D)	(-6D)	(+0D)

This is only to alter the scale of the damage of the weapon and NOT for resistance of the weapon's damage. Damage resistance between various scales is handled as per the rules in the main source book.

Example: Say someone wants to make the M-2 .50 machine gun do character scale damage rather than speeder scale damage. The M-2 does 8D damage speeder scale. Down scaled to character it would do do 14D character scale damage against character scale targets. Alternatively if that same M-2 were scaled up to walker, it would only do 2D damage. For the purposes of game balance I recommend using the listed damages for like scaled targets.

If this method is too complicated and seems to slow down game play, I also recommend using the Die roll cap vs scale rules.

	Character	Speeder	Walker	Starfighter
Character	6/6	3/6	2/6	2/6
Speeder	6/3	6/6	3/6	3/6
Walker	6/2	6/3	6/6	3/6
Starfighter	6/2	6/3	6/3	6/6

Example: Say that same M-2 shoots a single round at an average Human. The Human has a 2D character scale to resist that 8D speeder scale damage. The M-2 gets to add up its damage normally, while the Human only gets to add a maximum of 3 per die, rather than up to 6. Alternatively if that same M-2 shot an AT-AT, which has a body of 6D, the AT-AT would resist normally, while the M-2 damage rolled would only get to add up to 3 per die.

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 This is only to alter the scale of the damage of the weapon and '''NOT '''for resistance of the weapon's damage. Damage resistance between various scales is handled as per the rules in the main source book.
-'''Example''': Say someone wants to make the M-2 .50 machine gun do character scale damage rather than speeder scale damage. The M-2 does 7D damage speeder scale. Down scaled to character it would do do 13D character scale damage against character scale targets. Alternatively if that same M-2 were scaled up to walker, it would only do 1D damage. For the purposes of game balance I recommend using the listed damages for like scaled targets.
+'''Example''': Say someone wants to make the M-2 .50 machine gun do character scale damage rather than speeder scale damage. The M-2 does 8D damage speeder scale. Down scaled to character it would do do 14D character scale damage against character scale targets. Alternatively if that same M-2 were scaled up to walker, it would only do 2D damage. For the purposes of game balance I recommend using the listed damages for like scaled targets.
 If this method is too complicated and seems to slow down game play, I also recommend using the Die roll cap vs scale rules.
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-'''Example''': Say that same M-2 shoots a single round at an average Human. The Human has a 2D character scale to resist that 7D speeder scale damage. The M-2 gets to add up its damage normally, while the Human only gets to add a maximum of 3 per die, rather than up to 6. Alternatively if that same M-2 shot an AT-AT, which has a body of 6D, the AT-AT would resist normally, while the M-2 damage rolled would only get to add up to 3 per die.
+'''Example''': Say that same M-2 shoots a single round at an average Human. The Human has a 2D character scale to resist that 8D speeder scale damage. The M-2 gets to add up its damage normally, while the Human only gets to add a maximum of 3 per die, rather than up to 6. Alternatively if that same M-2 shot an AT-AT, which has a body of 6D, the AT-AT would resist normally, while the M-2 damage rolled would only get to add up to 3 per die.