Re: Sand

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Phillip E. Pournelle wrote:

>	  Sand causes 1d3 Damage per inch per 12 inches of velocity of
ships
> travelling through it, minus shields and armor.  

Is the minus per die or total? And the velocity of the cloud itself is 
irrelevant? Ok, it lacks the offensive punch now, so I'm happy.

> Sand also disrupts beam
> weapons.  For each cloud of sand fired through add one screen level to
the
> target.

I still would change that to either a binary all-or-nothing penalty, or
a 
penalty measured by the distance of cloud the shot passes. While it is 
hard to exploit your rule, it can give odd effects where a ship nicking 
two clouds gets more penalties than one shooting straight through one.

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