Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[pjrake]

Hey guys, I have a question to all of you "number crunchers" regarding a house rule I want to implement.

Since we're very limited in space, and we used mainly Dwarven Forge terrain, I'm thinking of halving all movement, including shooting range (round up).

In terms of game mechanics, would this really mess it up? I guess I want to introduce more tactical movements, and it's pretty hard when in one round everyone can pretty much to any square available; and all shooting ends up being short range.

Appreciate your thoughts.

PJ

[Enno]

Don't halve the movement, just rescale your map. Take, for example, 3 or 4 yards for the inch, instead the usual 2.

In my experience long ranges become only a difficulty, when modern weaponry is involved. But even then the distances tend to be short or medium, because of typical visibility. If the edge of the forest is at 20" it doesn't really matter that your Blast has a range of 96". If in an alley, you can rarely look farther than the next corner about 30" away.

So my tip is to play with distances from the book. If ranges become a problem, just rescale the map as a whole or just the part from a certain distance onward.
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[Snate56]

6 o' 1 really, as long as both sides benefit from the same rule, there shouldn't be a problem.



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[Enno]

True, but for me it is easier and less work just to rescale the map, then to recalculate ALL movement rates for creatures, vehicles, and powers in the books.
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[canology]

The problem with just changing the map scale is that he is using 3D terrain with what appear to be built in squares. So by changing the scale you wouldn't be fixing the issue (if you count each square as twice the normal size, you are limiting the characters to moving half their normal amount of squares).
I guess you could halve the movement but eave weapon ranges intact. Just say that each round is 3 seconds rather than 6. You may want to take that into account with spell-casting or firing arrows, etc...

[Enno]

Savage Worlds only knows inches not squares, so a grid is only helping in determining distances. We use 3D terrain and battlemaps with and without a grid regulary. Never had any problems over the last decade...

Try this in practice, and let's talk again after that. I am confident that my method is easier, and doesn't have effect on any rules, a change in round length or pace modification would have.
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[pjrake]

[Enno]

We resized them.
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