Hit location dice

[frogspawner]

Originally Posted by Kloster

Heretic!!

Thank you! But is that the way it's going to be - using the BRP defaults is heretical?

[Kloster]

Originally Posted by frogspawner

Thank you! But is that the way it's going to be - using the BRP defaults is heretical?

If the default is heretical, why not?
The localized damages are one of the rules that make me love RQ in the beginning (alongside strike ranks, but after the experience system), and the major wound tables is one of the reasons I always had problems with SB rules.

Runequestement votre,


Kloster

[badcat]

I am just the opposite: when SB1 came out I dropped the more complex (unnecessarily) RQ hit points and strike ranks. My games have always worked just fine and been fun for all. Maybe it's heresy, but it's good heresy. Durall has tried to please everyone this time out. We'll see.

[frogspawner]

Originally Posted by Kloster

If the default is heretical, why not?

But the default is the standard dogma, so it can't be heresy. And SR/HitLoc/etc are permissible options, so they're not heretical either.
Awkwardnesses might arise when translating between options, but I don't think that'll happen very often.

Originally Posted by badcat

...I dropped the more complex (unnecessarily) RQ hit points and strike ranks.

Same here. So Mr D's BRP pleases me, at least!

It's sensible to have the simplest version as the core, and the various complications as optional extras. If anyone asks "where's the Advanced RolePlaying?" to go with the Basic - we can say it's the same book, if you use the options.