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Lestat
Jul 22nd, '03, 03:57 AM
It's a little unclear the text in pag.153 of the CHAMPIONS genre book.

1) First, it is necessary to Grab the character/club. If this character is consciuous, the manual says that this requires the normal Attack Roll with the "normal penalties". But if the character is unconscious, the Attack Roll suffer only the standard -1 OCV e -2 DCV.
But this penalties are the "normal penalties" (5e pag. 254) !!!
So, for consciuous character, what are the real penalties???

2) Using another character as a club entails a Weapon Size/Shape penalty of -2 OCV (if he's unconsious) or -4 OCV (if he's awake).
But the Weapon Size/Shape in 5e, pag. 253, see the thing in another way :"Using a human as a club would provide no OCV bonus".
It's different not only the bonus/penalty, but also the system. Normally, impromptu weapon gives OCV for their size, not penalty. A Human club gives no bonus because the size is "normal", but certainly it gives not any penalty, just the exact reverse of the rules in CHAMPIONS.

Insaniac99
Jul 22nd, '03, 08:42 AM
1: the target's normal DCV

2: this enter's GM preferance zone, myself, i would have no penalty (and even a bonus if if is his team mate, without asking him, just for kicks) but i can see why there is a penalty, and that would be, the targets struggles, it isn't a solid piece of metal like a light post, it flops around, and if the arget is awaky during this he will try to hold onto your arme and not hit stuff...