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Well, this is a pain a certain place. I've been studying longswordmanuals from 14th and 15th century europe the past years, and nowhere do I see any particular technique where you aim for a certain location. What you do, is that you attack along different lines, that often ends up that you're hit certain places. The most common places you're hit when applying theese old techniques are hands, arms and head. This will of course differ from weapon to weapon. And from technique to technique.<BR>
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The way I've decided to solve "aiming", is to not allow aiming at all, but letting the fighters roll oposing rolls. The margin of success can be used to either increase damage or to aim certain places, symbolizing that your skills are so superior that you manage to set up your opponent for an aimed attack.<BR> <BR>
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:30:41 +1100<BR>From: C.DAVIS@uws.edu.au<BR>To: runequest@rpgreview.net<BR>Subject: [Runequest] hitting a specific hit location<BR><BR>
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<P dir=ltr><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>Hi all</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P dir=ltr><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>m currently trying to clean up the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>combat</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> system we are using for our pulp horror game which uses a lot of RQ mechanics</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>it</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>s a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>sort</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>o</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>f super CoC with some D20 added)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>and I was wondering how do people</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> run</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>hitting a specific hit location</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>It’s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> a tough thing to get</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>right</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> you don</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>t want it to be too complicated so it doesn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>t take too long</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> It can</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>t be too easy or</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>everyone</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> hits everything in the head</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> but if</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>it’s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> too hard</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>no one</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> ever tries</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> which is a bit sad because some</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>times you want the players to try more daring things.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P dir=ltr><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>m very interested any</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>anyone’s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au> <FONT face=Calibri>experiences</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> or preferences regardless</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> of whether its RQ2, RQ3 MRQ</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri> or some evil hybrid of all of them</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-au></SPAN></P>
<P dir=ltr><SPAN lang=en-au><FONT face=Calibri>Cheers</FONT></SPAN></P>
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