I was considering using VP/WP for a more lethal home campaign, and I was trying to write the campaign guide as open as possible.
In short, for those who do not have the SWRCRB, your hit points become your vitality points, and they recover as subdual damage normally does (level/hour). WP are equal to your CON (times a multiplier if you are Huge+, or Tiny-), and you take WP damage 1) after you run out of VP, or 2) on a critical hit. Toughness increases WP, and the DR from armor reduced WP damage taken. WP are recovered on a weekly (not daily) basis, through Surgery (a skill), or the Force (a.k.a. sci-fi magic). All SWRCRB weapons have no critical multiplier. However, taking WP damage on a critical does not actually reduce your Con in SW, but doing so would also deal massive amounts of VP damage because of the reduced Con modifier. Good thing? Not sure; might be, literally, overkill. A critical hit could take a character of any level out of the action, even if they are still alive. If that is what you are looking for (as I am), then this might work. "Heroic characters" does not (or should not) mean "invulnerable characters". Looking at spells, they need some extensive rework in a VP/WP system, and I am working on that. I'm even tempted to redo all of the spells from scratch. It will be a low magic campaign, anyway, so there's already a learning curve for players who will use magic. -Mike --- Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Mike Kletch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The brutal shortcut to a VP/WP system is to reduce all crit multipliers by > > one, > > and say all critical hits deal con damage instead of HP damage. Then > > release > > that under the OGL. Unless that gets bashed, I may use just that. > > That actually sounds like a decent system. > > Have you tried using it? > > ===== > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > Fred Wolke - Homo Cervicalgia > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > http://shopping.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
