Dice Rifts Adventure OOC

[DraconianWarrior]

while making my post i was looking over my drones stats for their railgun and i stumbled onto the fact that they can fire six volleys per melee. boy i love these things

 

[Sherwood]

It is still one at a time, but can attack up to six times a round

 

[DraconianWarrior]

but it has seven melees per round, six attacks per melees.

 

[DraconianWarrior]

ok i know that this is probably a bit to late but how are we keeping track of how many melees each person has. i understand that you keep track of how many turns each player has had but how do we keep track of how many melees that each person has/can do each round?

 

[DraconianWarrior]

and kind of a side question but how did demon two survive 190 points of mdc damage after being damaged already? did only one of the volleys hit him?

 

[Sherwood]

The weapon only does 1d4x10 per shot, so I went with the first number you rolled, doing 30 points of damage. A weapon may be able to fire multiple times in a round, but it is still one shot at a time, not all six at once.

On a side note, the demons have several hundred MDC each, so it took the damage and is still going.

ok i know that this is probably a bit to late but how are we keeping track of how many melees each person has. i understand that you keep track of how many turns each player has had but how do we keep track of how many melees that each person has/can do each round?

If I understand you correctly, your hand to hand combat training for Expert starts with 4 actions per round. If you have Boxing, that adds 1 more action per round. Some classes have more actions, like the Juicer class (not that we have any at the moment). A quick check of your sheet shots that you don't have Boxing, so you have a total of 4 action/attacks per round.

 

[DraconianWarrior]

meaning that i have four melees that i can attack with. the drones rail gun fires six volleys per melee. and since i used two melees (one of each drone) that means that they let off a total of twelve volleys in those melees.

 

[DraconianWarrior]

and i understand that i missed the first demon. but since i hit the second one he should take the six volleys of damage since i hit him and they were all on the same melee meaning that its an all or nothing. either i hit him with them all or i missed totaly.

please correct me if im wrong or am misinformed.

 

[Sherwood]

meaning that i have four melees that i can attack with. the drones rail gun fires six volleys per melee. and since i used two melees (one of each drone) that means that they let off a total of twelve volleys in those melees.

Somehow we are not connecting. If a weapon has the capacity to fire ten times a melee round but the operator only has four actions per round, the weapon only fires on the actions of the operator. In this case, I am letting you direct each of your drones on your action, so now you have used two attacks. Once you have gone through your four attacks, you are done even if the weapon can shot more.

 

[Purr]

DraconianWarrior Uh, Draco? Palladium doesn't work quite like that, buddy!

A melee round lasts 15 seconds.
Each character can attack a certain number of times in that melee round. These are called attacks per round.
Blake has 4 attacks per round. Each of his drones has 6 attacks per round.
This means Blake, using his drones, can have them attack 4 times every 15 seconds.
If Blake somehow had 8 attacks per round, the drones could still only attack a maximum of 6 times per round.
Get it? =)

Also, I'm glad you're over your sickness and able to post again! =)

 

[DraconianWarrior]

Can fire six bursts per melee round and has a total of seven melee actions under robot mode, otherwise attacks are equal to those of the VR controller +2.

that is what it says for my railgun. its not using more melees. its attacking 6 times per melee. all of those attacks are the same melee.

 

[Purr]

That sounds strange. Can you give me the source so I can see it for myself? What book are you reading from and which page, please?

 

[DraconianWarrior]

its in the austrailia book. but i have it all on my character if you want to look at it.

 

[Purr]

No, I need to see the sourcebook. What page, please?

Also, which Australia World Book? Australia One or Two?

 

[DraconianWarrior]

sorry i dont remember the page. but i do remember that it was near the back of the book. world book australia.

 

[Sherwood]

The controller may give you extra actions. That's fine. But the rail guns only do 1d4x10 per shot, and they only fire once per action, not all six at once. That would make the rail guns far too powerful.

 

[Purr]

Australia One or Two, Draco?

 

[Sherwood]

I think it's Australia One, page 220

 

[Sherwood]

Looking at the write-up, the drone in autonomous mode has seven actions, but the rail gun only has the ability to shoot six times in that 15 second round. If you are directly controlling it, you get your actions +2, so you have a total of six actions with the drone. Those actions can be used to shoot the rail gun once per attack that you have, each attack doing the 1d4x10.

 

[Purr]

Yeah, I'm there. Thanks, though.

It states what's on the character sheet for Blake, but it doesn't make sense. For one thing, the rail gun definitely shoots one burst at a time, not two or more in one action. This game just does not work that way. Bullets only come out of guns so fast.

I can see Blake's point. The robot drone adds to the number of attacks (as you just wrote in your post).

 

[DraconianWarrior]

i didn't know that there was an australia book two.

 

[DraconianWarrior]

but it says that it it can do six bursts per melee.

edit:
therefor i thought that it attacked multiple times for each melee. i was under the impression that it attacked multiple time not just once per melee.

 

[Sherwood]

Consider the Glitter Boy and the Boom Gun. That is the most powerful rail gun there is, and it fires a round that does 3d6x10. If you can fire all your rail gun shots at once, that would far outstrip the Boom Gun.

but it says that it it can do six bursts per melee.

That is six bursts in a fifteen second melee round, but six bursts per action. If we go that way, it would be firing 36 times in one round.

 

[Purr]

Draco, Sherwood just said...

If you are directly controlling it, you get your actions +2, so you have a total of six actions with the drone.

(bold mine)

Re: Australia 2: Dreamtime. Technically there was an Australia 2, but I just read it was cancelled. Shame too! They put a lot into the first book.

 

[DraconianWarrior]

ok so let me see if i got this. one melee is 15 seconds. meaning that if i were to use all four of my melees it would equal to one minute?