Comments on: #276 - Mjollnir Madness: Join the Club http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/ Norse gods versus grade school. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:43:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Silverwolf http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-3137 Silverwolf Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:47:46 +0000 http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-3137 All he needs to do is declare the right attack and roll initiative. Hello eyeball. Meet finger. All he needs to do is declare the right attack and roll initiative. Hello eyeball. Meet finger.

]]> By: Jeffery Stevenson http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-72 Jeffery Stevenson Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:00:15 +0000 http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-72 @abbadon - mcubedb was right... that was the piece of Dagda's club Sif let Thor "borrow". @mcubedb - Looks like Theala gave some pretty good answers there. The Alternity game system also used stun damage. The whole concept behind stun damage is to handle situations where a character might be armored up (wearing a bulletproof vest for example) but still feels it when they get hit by something powerful. Say a person gets shot but is wearing a vest so it doesn't do any major damage... but they'll still know they got shot as the impact against the vest could knock the wind out of them (bruising them up in the process or even cracking some ribs if it was a high caliber gun). And on a separate note... hooray for gaming geeks (yeah, Seth and I are both long-time gaming geeks)! @abbadon - mcubedb was right… that was the piece of Dagda’s club Sif let Thor “borrow”.

@mcubedb - Looks like Theala gave some pretty good answers there. The Alternity game system also used stun damage. The whole concept behind stun damage is to handle situations where a character might be armored up (wearing a bulletproof vest for example) but still feels it when they get hit by something powerful. Say a person gets shot but is wearing a vest so it doesn’t do any major damage… but they’ll still know they got shot as the impact against the vest could knock the wind out of them (bruising them up in the process or even cracking some ribs if it was a high caliber gun).

And on a separate note… hooray for gaming geeks (yeah, Seth and I are both long-time gaming geeks)!

]]> By: Theala Sildorian http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-71 Theala Sildorian Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:26:30 +0000 http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-71 mcubedb: Con Stun is a Hero Games (Champions) gaming term: it means that the amount of Stun damage that gets thru your defenses exceeds your CON score. THACO is a 1st and 2nd ed AD&D term: To Hit Armor Class 0 (zero). This means what you have to roll on a d20 to hit Armor Class 0 based on the bonuses of your weapons and your Characteristics. Attack of Opportunity is a 3rd ed D&D term, but I never played that one so I can't remember exactly what it means. Basicallly, we've got a lot of gaming geeks here mcubedb: Con Stun is a Hero Games (Champions) gaming term: it means that the amount of Stun damage that gets thru your defenses exceeds your CON score.

THACO is a 1st and 2nd ed AD&D term: To Hit Armor Class 0 (zero). This means what you have to roll on a d20 to hit Armor Class 0 based on the bonuses of your weapons and your Characteristics.

Attack of Opportunity is a 3rd ed D&D term, but I never played that one so I can’t remember exactly what it means.

Basicallly, we’ve got a lot of gaming geeks here

]]> By: mcubedb http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-70 mcubedb Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:18:59 +0000 http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-70 Looked a bit like the piece of Dagda's club that Sif had in her purse. It seems that I need a definition of D&D terminology. Con Stun? THACO? Looked a bit like the piece of Dagda’s club that Sif had in her purse.

It seems that I need a definition of D&D terminology. Con Stun? THACO?

]]> By: abbadon http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-65 abbadon Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:08:09 +0000 http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-65 Wonder what he hit him with? Wonder what he hit him with?

]]> By: j c roullard http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-64 j c roullard Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:17:13 +0000 http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-64 Even with a thunder god's THACO, you can still roll a 1. Even with a thunder god’s THACO, you can still roll a 1.

]]> By: Theala Sildorian http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-63 Theala Sildorian Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:51:46 +0000 http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-63 Nice hit, Thor. Unfortunately, you did not Con Stun him . . . . Nice hit, Thor. Unfortunately, you did not Con Stun him . . . .

]]> By: Brad_again http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-62 Brad_again Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:09:36 +0000 http://brat-halla.com/2008/03/26/276-mjollnir-madness-join-the-club/#comment-62 attack of opportunity! attack of opportunity!

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