Combat Dice Rolls in HRP?

Should there be dice rolls to decide the fate of a combat-type scenario in the HRP or maybe even others should it catch on? Melee-fights, firefights, flanking opportunities, being spotted, etcetera. I'll leave the poll open until a verdict is decided by administration.

If it were a life-or-death situation for the author's character and he did not consent to his or her death, they could avoid it.

EDIT 1: Advantages would be given to those more experienced. S-IIs would have an advantage over S-IVs, etcetera. Also potentially negating space combat. Comment below your thoughts.

i vote no and the info u described would appear to be in ship combat as well

Non-melee. Those are mainly just plot devices, and should be agreed upon who wins, since it's skill on skill, with very little variables.

Any combat scenario, Zeru. In theory that would work Garth, but the majority of combat-based scenarios are close-quarters. I'll see if people agree with you, and if that's the case I'll revise the original post.

Hmmm. I think this bears more thinking on. Details on, well, everything. I'm being vague because i have a long list.

I once tried building an RP around dice-based combat, and people were not having that. Although, I do think its a good idea, however:

It would have to only apply to RP's where Dice Combat was planned from the launch
The Rules of Dice Combat would have to be different based on the RP, as each one works on different conventions
and there would have to be a pretty big post on how exactly it works so there is no confusion.



EDIT:

And then there's also things like Stat Modifiers, which can be brought in via the Character Sheet (Those of you who have used the MERP site for those 10 minutes it lasted know exactly how that works).
Then there's also things like Health and Mana bars and the like, which can be incorperated incredably easily, as you can see from mine right here.


I have a ton of experiance using the character sheets Forumotion provides, as well as the RTD function, and having come from Dungeons and Dragons, so I would be up for this under the conditions I listed above.


Rolling an Insight Check to see what the Merchant thinks of all this.
(Xazhi has a +4 to Insight)

The member 'Vigil of Spite' has done the following action : Dices roll

'D20' : 13

Everything would need to be taken into account here. Not just skill, but weapons, armour, etcetera. I'll vote yes, but only once it's been properly tuned.

MY biggest problem is, and the reason why i suggest we keep modifiers as simple as possible, is that if it's too complicated then people might not want to join in.

I will take a screenshot of how it works in the MERP site and post it here so you guys can get an idea for what I had been aiming for back then.

i agree with xaz it should be implemented during start not part way through to hope it fixes things

Xazhi, that's a great idea. You need to teach me how to use those later.

I would love this, it would make it so much simple-er

but giga some things like ship combat have too many variables to use the feature

Nope. Too complicated. I rather just go play xbox. <.<