[DCU] A few house rules

[Rubio]

I was puttering around on this site and it filled me with nostalgia for an old DC Universe/World of Darkness crossover game I ran in college with the DCU system. I puttered around on my hard drive and came up with some alternative damage rules that I instituted for my relatively low-powered game. Here's how they look all polished up and uploaded to google docs.

Gimmie some feedback

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dckzc4zr_43dmjjsffd

[Lee Torres]

You may have some sort of security in place on the document - I'm getting this - (took out my email because of spambots - they're tasty, but annoying):

"We're sorry, but (deleted) does not have access to this document.

You are signed in as (deleted), but that email account hasn't been granted permission to this document."

[Otto von Grunwald]

Seems to be working now. At least, it opened for me.

I like the revised damage rules. I'm also a big Alternity fan and had tried to integrate the systems myself without much luck, kudos.

[Rubio]

Thanks! The stun/wound/mortal damage thing was, indeed, culled from Alternity. One of the things I think that system got right.

As to the document, I'd actually only shared it before as opposed to publishing it. It should be working now :)

Any specific comments?

[retriever]

The damage system is interesting. I'm not very familiar with Alternity. Seems like a reasonable way of playing wounds and mortality in a supers setting.

Upon first looking over it, the only thing I notice that I'd probably want to ignore is the limit of 1 point of Mortal damage healed per week by medicine.

Overall, seems like a lot of good detail, and nice work!

[Lee Torres]

I've been reading over this for a few hours now, and I'd definitely make use of this if I were running DCU as written - it addresses most if not all of the problems I had with the wounding rules in the game. It's interesting that I've got Alternity in my collection but the connection didn't click until it was mentioned in this thread. Definitely a case of "two great tastes that taste great together."

A+ work, Rubio. An impressive and elegant solution!

[Rubio]

The damage system is interesting. I'm not very familiar with Alternity. Seems like a reasonable way of playing wounds and mortality in a supers setting.

Upon first looking over it, the only thing I notice that I'd probably want to ignore is the limit of 1 point of Mortal damage healed per week by medicine.

Bear in mind that my game took place in Gotham at PL2, so I never got a chance to play things through with JLA-level supers. I'm not sure how it woud pan out with folks throwing powers in the 15-20D range at each other. Also, no one had the Invulnerability power, so I never saw how this interacted with that.

On the healing front, I think you're right. I was erring on the side of WoD-style grit at the time of writing many moons ago. For a more Gotham Knights/Birds of Prey feel, I would probably change that to allowing only 1 point of mortal damage to be healed per day with medical treatment, and 1 per week unassisted.

[Rubio]

I've been reading over this for a few hours now, and I'd definitely make use of this if I were running DCU as written - it addresses most if not all of the problems I had with the wounding rules in the game. It's interesting that I've got Alternity in my collection but the connection didn't click until it was mentioned in this thread. Definitely a case of "two great tastes that taste great together."

A+ work, Rubio. An impressive and elegant solution!

D'aww shucks, yer makin' me blush.
I just wanted people to feel threatened by having guns waved in their faces. Also, one of my players was a garou (lifted straight from Werewolf the Apocalypse) and I figured that silver bullets needed a slightly better treatment. Another of my players was a former GCPD detective who had a magical caster gun straight out of Outlaw Star, and it deserved a bit better treatment than just a standard shotgun.