DouglasCole Doctor of GURPS Ballistics



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Re: Super Strength and Ripping off Limbs Quote: Doctor Thantos Originally Posted by So I have a player whom next session, is going to try and rip off the limbs of his opponents. He is super strong (ST40) But what is the mechanism?



Quote: How strong do you have to be to rip off an arm? If HT/2 is for an arm, and a limb is destroyed at 2x this number( ie 10 points of damage to a ST 10 person ) Then what a HT check? What if they keep pulling?



If they do 5x the limb hits does it automatically come off? 10X?



Any thoughts?



Thanks



Try a HT+4 roll, maybe at a penalty of (say) -1 per HP past the full HP required to cause you to roll HT+4 in teh first place.



So at ST 25 (5d-1 swing), a max-damage roll of 24 points to a HT 10/HP 10 person would put 14 points over the "maybe it comes off" threshold. That's a roll of HT-10, or HT 0 . . . it comes right off.



To do this on an average damge roll, you'd need swing damage of about 6d+2 or 7d-1, or ST 37-40.



Since someone with ST 40 has a basic lift sufficient to exert 2500 lbs. of force with a two-handed lift, having an arm come off under this load doesn't break my suspension of disbelief much. At all. :-) I would use Wrench Limb. It's a ST-based roll made after grappling the limb. Make a grapple using two hands of your foe's arm, win a Quick Contest of your Wrench Limb technique (Martial Arts, p. 82) vs. the best of your foe's ST or HT, and then roll swing damage.Well, ST 10 swing damage can be had for 2d-2 on a best roll, which is ST 13 (2d-1). You can do even worse with an All-Out Attack.Try a HT+4 roll, maybe at a penalty of (say) -1 per HP past the full HP required to cause you to roll HT+4 in teh first place.So at ST 25 (5d-1 swing), a max-damage roll of 24 points to a HT 10/HP 10 person would put 14 points over the "maybe it comes off" threshold. That's a roll of HT-10, or HT 0 . . . it comes right off.To do this on an average damge roll, you'd need swing damage of about 6d+2 or 7d-1, or ST 37-40.Since someone with ST 40 has a basic lift sufficient to exert 2500 lbs. of force with a two-handed lift, having an arm come off under this load doesn't break my suspension of disbelief much. At all. :-)

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