There are two kinds of people - those roll for damage and those I don't care to know.
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Skip both.
(from Apocalypse World 2e)
Neither. Thee amount of shifts above defense determine stress or consequence.
Or the effect die will determine the consequence.
Neither. Thee amount of shifts above defense determine stress or consequence.
Or the effect die will determine the consequence.
I prefer fix damage tie with your roll. Like Shadowrun 4 does, I find that it’s easier on combat heavy game
However I’ve recently GMed a Slugblaster one shot and inflicting a improvised damage called « low battery » on one of my players was a lot of fun
Wasn't that net hits + base? 4th ed would have you rolling dozens of dice sometimes, I'm not sure you'd have time to finish combat if you had to then go and roll damage afterwards. Though you could become so impervious to damage and so incredibly deadly that combat lost a lot of it's luster once you'd accumulated an appreciable amount of karma.
Yep it was hard and Shadowrun 4th have a lot problems but net hits + base dam seems easier to me than rolling damage
I don't really care, the number of rolls in a game might be too much or too little either way.