Whispering in the Depths [OOC]

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So, I was thinking about the auto suceed hits and realized the danger roll is where I see a problem. Armor and shield provide a bonus in attack by making you harder to hit. Hits are automatic. so they should provide a bonus in defense rolls.
Easiest way for me to explain my idea is to show so I modified my char sheet. Look at it and see if you like it. Also moved shield out of weapons and into armor and gave heavy 2 check boxes for the bonuses to work right even though they don't matter now

So ... here's how the sheet currently works:

Defense ||2d6+[_$=dex+shield*atk]|
Melee Harm|2d0+[_$=str+dex*ltwpn+str*hvywpn+atk*(hvywpn+ltwpn)]

Your weapon affects how much harm you can do.
Your shield affects how well you can deflect harm.
Your armor allows you to ignore some harm that you don't deflect. (that's based on looking at what you rolled, I don't have a way to implement it in the sheet.)
I don't understand what you want to change. I like things as they are.

Ok, your game, it was just a thought

We've seen Rijo and Rezin smash their weapons ineffectually against the stone dwarf warriors. Stor-bten knocked one off its feet and it shattered.

What do you think would be a good way to overcome them?

I've got manacles. Could wrestle a couple into being bound.

Hi. I am in the midst of a job / client search and not really engaging with my leisure activities as I might do in a less stressful time. My posting will be sporadic as I have energy to do so.

I know that feeling well. Worry not about us here.

Yeah, I think I'm dead, so I'm not going anywhere.

I've spent the last three days bedridden with norovirus so I'm more than happy to rest for the mo!

I think that this game ended up being a bit too deadly slow - maybe due to pacing issues, we lost players before we lost PCs, and then there weren't enough PCs to survive.

I'm going to retire it shortly.

Thanks for giving it a shot, Tibbius.

DMing is always an experiment, and in play by post it can be hard to get feedback in time to correct course. I'm not sure what corrections I could have made here, anyway. It seemed like everyone had bought in to exploring an abandoned dwarf fortress, and then two players left the boards while we were barely in the entry hall. Oh well.

The evolving combat rules made it difficult to post when I didn't have time to review everything top to bottom. Then I didn't, heh.

Yes, that's a fair point. I felt like I needed to switch up combat after I saw how deadly Maze Rats could be. But it was a jarring change.