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Game design musing: combat pacing
Know what's one of the hardest development tasks for a GURPS add-on -- heck, for just about any RPG? A slick system for variable action times. That is, rules to allow one character to perform certain actions (typically attacks) twice as fast as another, or five times for every four of a foe's, etc.
HERO's Speed stat doesn't quite have it. It's great that Speed 10 lets you have an action rate a little slower than Speed 11, which is a little slower than Speed 12. . . but what about a creature a little slower than the human norm of Speed 2? The only level allowed below that is a full halving of Speed to 1, and then no action at all (Speed 0?) below that.
The ideal system would interest itself in relative differences, equally allowing for battles between psi warriors (typical attack times: 1/10 second, 1/15 for the fast ones) or between the living mountains of Ryol III (typical attack times: 3 Earth years for a "punch", 2 for a "jab", 1.5 for a "fast" mountain's jab, etc.).
I've yet to see a proposal for GURPS that makes a good start (IMO). I certainly don't have one myself.
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Well one thing I can see
Well one thing I can see working here is using some kind of action point system where characters has a some amount of points to use on actions each round and each action cost X amount of points so the more points you have the more thing one can do in a round and maybe set it so if you have left over point you can start an action using your surplus paying what's left in their next round (but leaving them open in the mean time).
Hope this makes sense/works.....
Action Points!
You may have seen it by now, but I review some ideas for just that, in a follow-up series to this post. The Action Point discussion is at http://www.gamesdiner.com/about_time_part3 (you'll find links in there to the preceding Parts I and II as well).
Anything of interest in there?
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