>The worldrecord for sprinting is somewhat about 9m/sec,
World record for the hundred metres is well under ten seconds, giving a speed of well over 10m/sec...
>I tried to figure an elephants mass from the following scenario:it tramples
>someone(a human, etc.) down, Trample12 vs. a plain resistance of 6.
>Let�s say it�s a success vs. a success- looser forfeits x1.
>Let�s say the elephant uses his default of 3AP-so the poor guy looses 6AP.I
>imagine, that after being trampled down by an elephant,you are very hurt(if
>not dead...)- a major victory(thus -21-30AP), so there should be an edge of,
>maybe 25.
This doesn't appear to be following the rules. If the bid is 3AP (very low, by the way) and its success vs. success, the loser forfeits 3AP. Default resistance is 14 not 6, and most characters will have some more obvious skill to use anyway (run, dodge, jump, movement magic, whatever). A skill of 12 for an elephant's trample seems very low - maybe that figure is in Anaxial's, if not where does it come from?
I'd try re-running it with an idea of Trample 12W vs. the defender's Leap 19 (improvised to Leap Out of Harm's Way for a -3). Trampling someone seems a pretty serious attack to me - they'd end up seriously injured. On the other hand, a charging elephant probably can't turn on a sixpence, so leaping out of its path gives a big advantage to the defender. I'd expect a big bid here - maybe 20AP. Chances are, the defender will end up out of the contest, but not dead. The elephant can now use trample again, for the coup de grace. The defender could only use 'Leap' at a big penalty (-10) since its hard to leap from under an elephant's foot. Chances are the elephant stands in something sticky...
Note that this isn't the 'correct' way to run such a contest, just one way to do it. The story ends up being pretty much what you want (elephant smears human under feet) but there's no need to change the elephant's large rating at all. (Which as I remember was about right...) Any extrapolation you make will only be true for your exact way of running the story - which is why any attempts to derive an exact simulation from the rules is doomed to failure. You need to make too many assumptions.
Having said that, if you want to enjoy trying, why not. A couple of comments :
>12-Mouse-Sprint5
You've obviously never tried to catch a mouse!
>24-Reindeer-Sprint15
>30-Whale,Human-Sprint5W3
The HW scale is logarithmic - if you are going to assign numbers, doubling somewhere between every +10 and +20 works quite well. In other words, if 24kmph is sprint 15, then 48kmph is somewhere between sprint 5W and sprint 15W.
Cheers,
Graham
-- Graham Robinson graham_at_... Albion Software Engineering Ltd.
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