Enhancing Move Distance

[CRMcNeill]

Per the RAW, a character may not have a Move higher than his species maximum. For humans, that's 12. Unfortunately, this doesn't fly in the real world; Usain Bolt would need a Move of 13+ to set his world record 100-meter time of 9.58 seconds.

What I'm thinking is allowing a character who beats the Running Difficulty to travel 1 additional meter for every 5 points of success over the TN.

So a character with Running 9D, running at All-Out on Very Easy Terrain (Easy Difficulty), such as a track, rolls a 35, beating the Difficulty by 25 points, thus adding an additional 5 meters to the distance he covers that round.

I'm just spit-balling this at the moment, but figured I'd get it in writing and get people thinking about it.

Thoughts?
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[shootingwomprats]

Okay so he is moving at an average of 37.58 kph for 100 meters. This is 10.44 meters a second 52.19 meters a round. An average human can run 40 meters a round and an above average at 48 meters a round. Usain Bolt is certainly not average nor is he above average, he is friggin super-human. I think a player running 40-48 meters a round compared to Usain at 52 meters a round is pretty darn comparable.

An idea you can use it: 1/2 Move, Move, Move+1D, and Move+2D. Quick and easy.
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[Bren]

I hope never to need rules that are sufficiently mechanically detailed to correctly model my plodding jog and Usain Bolt's lighting sprint.

Have you had players who actually spent the CPs to improve their Move?

[shootingwomprats]

[Telsij]

[Bren]

[Sutehp]

[Bren]

[CRMcNeill]

[CRMcNeill]

[CRMcNeill]

[Bren]

Except in special circumstances* I don't see a need for rules to mechanically detail how far or fast in meters or seconds a PC can run based on their Running skill. But I don't want to rain on anyone else's rules crunch parade so I'll just bow out of this conversation.


* Special circumstances would be something like the PCs must win the planet Olympia's annual Baloonta Day race which is run on foot and the GM needs a way of using some die rolls to make a dramatically interesting race.

[Naaman]

FWIW, the most enjoyable character I've ever created was a galactic champion athlete... literally the fastest runner in the galaxy.

The amount CPs spent on athletic skills was staggering.

Absent a rule like this, the character concept cannot be sufficiently expressed by the rules.

Bren, have you considered that if there were no hard cap on movement distance that people might actually bother to increase their move speed? Imagine if D6 had sufficiently detailed movement rules to allow for things like charging attacks or epic chases...
As it is now, if two characters have different base move speeds, EVEN IF the slower one has 100D in running and the faster has just his Dex,as long as the "faster"beats the terrain difficulty, he will always outrun the "slower."

CRM, I like this notion. It redefines the running skill in an appropriate way.

If you really want to get nitpicky, you might even split the effects of running into two difderent skills: the Dex one for "balance when running" and a strength one for maximum all out speed. Stamina COULD be used here as a function of the character's ability to push hard long enough to do things like set a galactic record. It's not perfect, but since it is already based on Str, it won't "cost" anything in terms of character resources to be a true "runner."

The stamina difficulty would simply increase disproportionately the faster the character attempts to move, with all-out movement requiring a stamina check at the start of each successive round after the first, andfurther increasing for each previous check thatis successful.

[Bren]

[Naaman]

An excellent recommendation.

Me? I TEND to prefer to limit randomization (especially in D6 wherein the core mechanic is massively random). I feel that faster people should invariably out run slower ones, just like stronger people should always out lift weaker ones (by way of example, I'd prefer a system that gives a standardized weight that can be lifted without rolling.. say, for every 1D you have in lifting, you can lift 10 lbs without rolling a skill check; attempting to lift more would require a check with a difficulty proportionate to the difference).