[MUD-Dev] Re: [rpg-create] HP triangle (fwd)

[J C Lawrence]

An example played out:

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To: rpg-create at egroups.com
From: Dave Harper <dharper at golden.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:56:53 -0400
Subject: Re: [rpg-create] HP triangle

> and thought, "You know, placing the remainder row at the end means
> that, assuming you have to take damage off the bottom-most row,
> that the first hit will probably result in a stun, reflecting the
> state of the body before adrenaline kicks in and allows you to
> deal with more pain."

	The idea is that the player takes it off wherever he wants.  Let's give
an example:

Jenny
*
**
***
****
*****
**

	Jenny is in a fight with a ninja.  Those darn ninjas, they're wacky! 
She gets hit for three points of damage, and she decides to take it off
the fourth row.  It now looks like this:

*
**
***
XXX*
*****
**

	Now she gets hit again, for six points this time.  Jenny can't possibly
avoid being stunned from such a powerful hit, but she can avoid
unconsciousness if she doesn't fill up two rows.  So she takes it off
the fifth and third rows, like so, sweating a little:

*
**
XX*
XXX*
XXXXX
**

	Now she gets hit for another five points of damage.  Uh-oh!  No matter
what she does, Jenny is going to lose THREE whole bars of health at
once!  That's not good.  Jenny's going to be incapacitated and probably
scarred badly by the blow, even though it didn't do as much damage as
the last one.  Now she looks like this:

*
XX
XXX
XXX*
XXXXX
XX

	If she takes two more points of damage, Jenny will be dead.  

You'd do something like this:

Any bar filled = Stunned
Any two bars filled at once = Scar, Injured
Any three bars filled at once = Incapacitated
Any four bars filled at once = Killed instantly

	So for an unwounded Jenny, the minimum blow required to incapacitate
her instantly would be 5+4+3 = 12 points of damage.  But a badly wounded
Jenny might need as little as 3 points of damage to incapacitate.

	See now?

	Dave

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