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[inlife9]

I was talking to another gm today and he has capped damage dice to one ace-reroll.
This has made me uninterested in his game, as I feel those aces are way to fun to to drop a house rule on.
He says if a d4 damage kills a Giant there is a problem. I feel there is only more interest. I can always make a new monster. Besides, movies dont take all day to kill a bad guy, and it's still fun.
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[chugosh]

I don't cap it, but if my player rolls the same dice for the third or fouth time, I'm liable to holler "He's dead already! Put the dice down!"

[marshaljohn]

[TheLoremaster]

[Snate56]

It's all in the reflexes...


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[Enno]

No capping with me.

I'm only asking players to stop rolling if it's clear that they reached the maximum effect possible; when their opponent is definitely dead (mostly extras) or more wounds/raises won't make any difference.

Depending on the situation, i will give a benny or special "on-the-fly" effects for such a success. Even sheer luck has to be rewarded sometimes. And i give them to the players and major NPCs alike...
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[magehammer]

I encourage the players to keep rolling Aces well after there is no effect.

I have a house rule that if someone rolls 3 Aces on the same roll, I chuck them a Bennie. Another if they roll 6 and so on.

My Bennies for Aces tends to inspire a nice amount of anticipation and suspense and groans or cheers at the table.
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[Ultimoose]

If we actually rolled dice* I'd certainly cap them at the point that they've made their point so to speak. Once they get a raise on the attack roll or once they've done enough damage on a creature that I don't have any intention of making a soak roll on then sure I'd cut them off as while it's cool to come up with that 35 damage roll it's more a waste of everyone elses time.

*(We use a app I wrote to roll dice which takes all the time out of acing rolls and helps avoid 'questionable' rolls. Highest so far has been a 35 damage out of roughly 9 SW sessions using primarily 2d6 (3d6 with a raise) damage. What I've found interesting is how involved the players are as they 'roll', cocking their heads waiting for the results to be spoken and wincing when "One" comes out of the speakers and lighting up when the explosion noises go off.)

[magehammer]

OUr highest damage total was by a character playing a homebrew race of mine that is basically an Ogre Mage without the mage part.

He was wielding a 2-handed sword and wild attacking.

He did 72 points of damage total.

We like to see how far we can push our dice.
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[Takeda]

My wife totalled 54 damage with an arrow last year. I ruled that it hit the guy in the throat and severed the spinal cord. Done.

it can make the game a little random but taking away that predictability is what makes is realistic. Bard killing Smaug with one arrow, David and Goliath, an Elven archer taking the necromancer through both ears in a Harnmaster game years ago ... ended the expected end-battle pretty fast but life and reality are a little random.

You can't expect every bullet to hit your vest ... and that's where the Acing comes in. Capping it for the to-hit roll makes sense ... saves time but is less dramatic potentially but to each their own. Capping damage seems counter-productive as Savage Worlds is at it's core supposed to be Fast! Furious! Fun! ... rolling 32 dmg with a fork in a bar-fight gone bad just works.
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[Ultimoose]

Heh, yeah the ability to one shot is a overlooked factor for both good and bad. We were playing a fantasy setting, one of the few times I was a player and not hte gm, using Heroes once and I'd just upgraded my staff by putting steel caps on the ends (turned it from a normal attack into a killing attack mechanically) and the GM's 'sword saint' dropped down on us for what was supposed to be this long cinematic fight. I rolled a critical hit to the head for max damage and his cranium essentially 'sploded leaving the GM without a antagonist for us to fight since he was designed to be a encounter all on his own.

The same thing can happen with SW's. So as a GM be prepared for your big bad to get one shotted. In my iteration of Zombie Run, I basically blew all my bennies trying to keep that worthless Zombear alive because the players kept rolling exploding damage and smashing it to pieces in spite of its 14 toughness. Damn players kept Autofiring and getting multiple hits for big damage. And going into it I was really concerned about that 14 toughness.

The point is, those one shots are memorable and statistically they just don't happen that often.

[Candi]

Since it's becoming story time;

Just three weeks ago with the campaign opener I had the party slotted to be eaten by a T-Rex (statistics from the free bestiary) 17 Toughness, 3 of that is armor, +4 to hit him. This is in a modernized future-punky kind of setting with a bit of magic. T-Rex appeared and after the fear checks (which put two characters on their knees at the T-Rex's feet, one barely survived his heart attack and the other was Shaken for a good long time), the first player in the initiative order did the only thing he could think of; called shot with his pistol to the T-Rex's eye (to avoid armor and get a nice +4 damage all at a -6 penalty for tiny target). What happened? Hit, raise, 3d6+4 aced all the way to 32 damage.

I had expected them to turn tail and run, and have a chase scene - instead I got a T-Rex with his brain esploded inside his skull by one hell of a pistol shot.

Were the outmatched, yes - the T-Rex was going to eat them all. The end result though, thanks to exploding dice, was an epic tale. That character died just last session - his life was 2 sessions long (amusingly enough killed by a double barrel shotgun 4d6 that took him from 0 to 5 wounds) - and he won't be soon forgotten. Immortalized by exploding dice.

[skylion]

Yep, I cap. It lets those whiners know exactly who is in charge. Me. The big bad GM.

Seriously, I see no reason to let them roll over and over again, when by the math, they've scored five wounds.

More than four raises? Yes, yes. You are incredible, virtually speaking.

Yeah, that makes me sounds kinda like a wet blanket, but we gots another guy on the Ten of Spades coming up....keep in moving.
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[inlife9]

[Enno]

If this was a real world example, it was not a problem about capping, but about your GM being a moron, or in better terms not very communicative. His capping rule should have been communicated before the game, like any house rule. That would have prevented this mess...
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[Lord Inar]

Even bypassing armor, it still takes 32 points to down a dragon in one round!
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[Enno]