[Rq-rules] Crit hits

[Roger Benham]

But surely the sheer bulk of a creature would mitigate you getting an easy 
organ hit?  Try killing a sperm whale with a broadsword...  see how "easy" 
it would be after cutting through inches of blubber (Which presumably could 
be considered armour or flesh depending on the GM), and then do sufficient 
damage to harm a creature.

I'm in favour of capping the crit result at the skill level- after all, the 
bonus (+50% now) is only because the thing is so huge in front of you.  The 
crit results from the base skill the blow is used at rather than "Its really 
big, so I can kill it really easily."

This all strikes me as a bit of rules lawyering.  I daresay it strikes the 
big monsters as grossly unfair- do they get a bonus to hit really tiny 
creatures like pesky adventurers because they're really big and cover a lot 
of ground with a single blow?  Cuts both ways in my mind!


>From: "Tom Zunder (Home)" <tom at zunder.org.uk>
>Reply-To: "Discussion of RuneQuest rules." <rq-rules at crashbox.com>
>To: "Discussion of RuneQuest rules." <rq-rules at crashbox.com>
>Subject: Re: [Rq-rules] Crit hits
>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:03:56 +0100
>
>On 20 Jun 2006 at 12:30, Frank Filz wrote:
>
> >
> > I'd still let bladesharp increase crits. I'd probably also still allow
> > positional bonus to increase crits. But pure size? No.
>
>I think I would. It's bigger and easier to get a critical organ,
>they're bigger.
>
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