It will either take place in the US in either Florida or the North West states, or it will take place in an undisclosed location. I haven't really decided yet or checked with the other GMs for ideas. Actually, I'mma ask them.
Can it take place in the northwest states? Florida is... Florida after all, and knowing how you folks RP having this game take place in Florida would be somewhat jarring. Having it in Oregon or Washington or even goddamn Vancouver
Canada, heck yeah would be closer to the way you all usually do things.
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In other words, I vote for the Northwest.
on that note, got those last few hiccups in the combat resolved?
Last I checked? Not one bit. We still have a ways to go before combat is fixed.
I agree that damage reduction is pretty low. Assuming equally strong combatants, you will die in 2 hits, on average.
Would reducing damage to 1d8 + Mod + Level and make the bonus damage from charging/whatever to +1~2 help things a bit? Damage reduction would have to be CON Mod with no modifiers, or maybe double CON Mod with the various points rolling smaller dice, but I think that it'll scale better than what we have now. Fragile characters would still be liable for one-shotting at level 1 admittedly, but unless they have no CON Mod they're going to have 9 HP and a point of damage reduction at worse. However a level would quickly fix that problem and most enemies are going to have low attack modifiers in the beginning, so it's not much of a problem. Obviously at higher levels people start becoming high blobs of HP which isn't great either, but would probably be solved by all of the overpowered equipment that everyone will undoubtedly get. Or by reducing the dice use to calculate HP/AP/SP by one size each, so they'd be 1d6, 1d8 and 1d10 instead.[/theorycraft]