Sunwolfe Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Okay, this is a clarification question directed at either Ben...or any of you other MW gurus. Shields of various sizes have a percent chance to block successful missile strikes. This is mentioned in various places in the core book: 77, 79, 90, etc. Specials and criticals aside, what is the physical procedure for determining if the shield blocked the successfully striking arrows? In other words...the GM says, "Three arrows from the barrage have hit you. Your small shield has a 15% chance to block incoming...I/you roll to see if you blocked any". Who rolls for this: the GM or the player? It is a separate roll for each successful arrow or a roll for the whole barrage? Does this count as a "parry" or is it simply a matter of, "...oh, look, an arrow hit my shield! Good thing it was in the way!"? Cheers! Quote Present home-port: home-brew BRP/OQ SRD variant; past ports-of-call: SB '81, RQIII '84, BGB '08, RQIV(Mythras) '12, MW '15, and OQ '17 BGB BRP: 0 edition: 20/420; .pdf edition: 06/11/08; 1st edition: 06/13/08 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickMiddleton Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Shields of various sizes have a percent chance to block successful missile strikes. This is mentioned in various places in the core book: 77, 79, 90, etc.Bear in mind that Missile weapons may NOT be parried, OR Dodged in Magic World (page 63) Since parrying (or dodging) missiles is generally not possible, it's not an action. I'd get the player to roll against each missile as the spot rule lists it as a "chance to block a missile".Cheers,Nick 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoatbringer Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Talking about such things as arrows I remember an article for Elric! on different types of arrow heads (narrow, leaf, spherical and cutting amongst them) by a guy called Pawel Stacewicz that would be useful for MW. The problem is that I can't find it anywhere on the net. Quote "Foolish is the king who does not have a personal wizard, and lamentable is the ruler who trusts the wrong mage" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickMiddleton Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Can you remember what it was in? A fanzine or pro-magazine? Cheers, Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nclarke Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 There's a bit in Arms and Equipment of Legend for MGP Legend that has various sorts of arrow heads with mods to teh basic arrow stats. 1 Quote Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoatbringer Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Can you remember what it was in? A fanzine or pro-magazine?Cheers,NickI think a website called Eternal Index, or something along those lines. It was online about ten or more years ago. Quote "Foolish is the king who does not have a personal wizard, and lamentable is the ruler who trusts the wrong mage" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoatbringer Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 There's a bit in Arms and Equipment of Legend for MGP Legend that has various sorts of arrow heads with mods to teh basic arrow stats.I'm sure that I have that as an MRQ pdf. I'll have to have a look for it. Thanks for that. Quote "Foolish is the king who does not have a personal wizard, and lamentable is the ruler who trusts the wrong mage" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaot Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Talking about such things as arrows I remember an article for Elric! on different types of arrow heads (narrow, leaf, spherical and cutting amongst them) by a guy called Pawel Stacewicz that would be useful for MW. The problem is that I can't find it anywhere on the net. I'm almost positive that was on the chaosium digest... Quote 70/420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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