Been working on my own system again, mainly for my fantasy setting I've been jotting down for years. Nothing really world changing but more along the lines of traditional gaming fare since that's what I like to play and run. I am trying to mix a few things up here and there with it though, one would be with a stat called Threshold.
THRESHOLD - If your character is hit for damage that is less than this stat it isn't recorded on the damage chart.
As a base all characters (humans at least) start with a Threshold of zero before other modifiers are added in either class or species based, maybe even some sort of advantage system. It's these modifiers that may raise it a point or two. In some settings other things like nano/bio/cybertech may add to it as well.
So if you are hit with X damage and X is less than your Threshold you take no damage. If X is greater than your Threshold than you take all the damage. So it doesn't reduce the damage but buffers against small injuries. Basically I'm tired of characters, who are supposed to be the main point of the game, getting whittled down a point at a time by tiny hits.
Armor will reduce the damage. Whatever is left goes to the Threshold and then to the damage chart.
Just me thinking out loud here.
I've played wargames that had something similar.
ReplyDeleteI think I like it... seeing as I'm running B/X D&D these days and newbies might have just one or two points of HP and end up dead from dumb nonsense.
Having armor their reduce damage (ala BRP) would be good for them as well.