Pentallion Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 If my players Humakt rune lord takes geas do double damage and geas do double damage to dragons and geas do double damage to headdoes that do 8 times damage to a dragons head? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 (edited) 32 minutes ago, Pentallion said: If my players Humakt rune lord takes geas do double damage and geas do double damage to dragons and geas do double damage to head does that do 8 times damage to a dragons head? Sure. Double weapon damage again for Truesword, add damage bonus and magical damage for Bladesharp and Kargan Tor's Blessing before applying the gift doublings. In case of double damage to Aldryami or Uz gifts, double again for using an iron weapon, probably before adding the magical damage. Striking a giant troll to the head with an iron weapon with Truesword, Bladesharp, Kargan Tor's Blessing would cause 16 times the weapon damage rolled twice, 16 times the damage bonus, and eight times the magical bonus. Feel free to roll the damage if the head has more than 50 hit points or if the adamantium-helmeted troll manages to parry with a great maul of enchanted lead, otherwise consider the location to be history. Edited September 23, 2018 by Joerg clarification of Truesword doubling the dice rather than doubling the rolled damage of the normal dice 1 Quote Telling how it is excessive verbis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffjerwin Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 46 minutes ago, Pentallion said: If my players Humakt rune lord takes geas do double damage and geas do double damage to dragons and geas do double damage to headdoes that do 8 times damage to a dragons head? Yes, though of course attacking the head directly is not a particularly safe tactic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosenMcStern Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Sounds right to me. After all, with all those oaths he has to swear to death gods to obtain this, the poor fella must have few joys left in life, apart from the pleasure of severing dragon heads. Quote Proud member of the Evil CompetitionTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jongjom Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 For Uz and Aldryami it's only double damage once through armour / parrying weapon. Not that it will make much difference in this case! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 11 hours ago, Pentallion said: If my players Humakt rune lord takes geas do double damage and geas do double damage to dragons and geas do double damage to headdoes that do 8 times damage to a dragons head? Yes, that is how we played it and it makes certain people very effective against certain foes in certain situations. Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajagappa Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 2 hours ago, soltakss said: Yes, that is how we played it and it makes certain people very effective against certain foes in certain situations. I, on the other hand, would not. If you got both, you simply get the broader benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 I'd rather say that each 'doubling' is actually "+100% of the original damage", so the second applicable doubling would make triple damage, and so on. This would apply at each stage, so effects that increase raw damage done would apply together (3 doublings would be x4, not x8), but if there was a 'double damage that gets past armour', that would apply separately and be an actual doubling. If there were more than one 'double penetrating damage' effects, each would be '+100% of penetrating damage'. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentallion Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 I like Womble's math. 4 get through. First gift doubles the damage so 8 get through, second gift simultaneously doubles the 4 damage to now 12 got through, etc. I hadn't thought of it like that but that's how I'm going to rule it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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