Total Concealment

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#1

kjakan

Apr 20, 2008 8:55:28
I've been meaning to bring this issue up: How do you resolve the "guess target's location" part of the total concealment rules?

We usually use miniatures and a battle-map, so the "guess" part is pretty ignored, meaning tota concealment typically means just the 50% miss chance.

-K
#2

godmoney

Apr 20, 2008 9:43:32
usually the gm takes the fig off the table and keeps track of where it is... gotta love autofire
#3

kzak

Apr 20, 2008 11:19:12
usually the gm takes the fig off the table and keeps track of where it is... gotta love autofire

Pretty much. If you have to guess where someone's at in a firefight, it's time to break out grenades and other area-of-effect weapons.
#4

tema69

Apr 20, 2008 14:56:05
Yeah. My PCs don't attack "the darkness" with anything else than autofire/grenades/AoE attacks. Which is understandable, we don't use a gridded combat map. But they rarely attack stuff they can't see, as I like to keep their ammo low.
GM (me) "so, you just emptied your mag into the bunch of evil nazi scientists, that leaves you with what? 2 mags and a sidearm? Hmmm... " *looks through notes to see how many enemies there are left* - *nods* - *looks up, smiling*
#5

kzak

Apr 21, 2008 2:40:17
Thus, make sure to bring enough ammunition at all times, so you won't have to resort to improvised melee weapons to fend off enemies.
#6

tema69

Apr 21, 2008 3:44:20
Encumbrance rules are great, aren't they?
One thing is that the ammo weight in the d20 Modern is off. We double the numbers. And most of my players have low strength. Muhaha..hremm.. I mean. Ehh.. Back to topic.
#7

kjakan

Apr 21, 2008 6:50:01
usually the gm takes the fig off the table and keeps track of where it is... gotta love autofire

That probably works great for single any few enemies that are concealed from all players. I guess I could just have blinded players leave the room in stead...

So, apart from one godmoney, nobody really bothers with the "guess location" part when using the battle grid?

-K