Hit location dice, worth it?

Conan: Adventures In an Age Undreamed Of
1

My players and I find it a little tedious to always refer to the hit location table. Was thinking of getting some hit location dice. Do you use them? Are they easy to read?

2

Technically they are important in order to know if the location is protected or not and in order to sacrifice your armor. Personally I’ve been GMing RuneQuest for decades so I have no problem with hit locations :slight_smile:

1 Like
3

Yes, the dice is readable if you have well lit room or table. It is just one dice more to roll. :slight_smile:

1 Like
4

You don’t necessarily need them but they are, in my opinion, better than using the chart. I actually sprung for an extra set so I could hand them out to my players when they got similarly tired of looking at the hit location chart.

1 Like
5

an img printed out for each die face, scissors, tape.

1 Like
6

Also good :slight_smile:

7

I will admit that the whole mechanic of Hit Location doesn’t feel worth it yet. Still, I am only two adventures in yet.

1 Like
8

In my experience, it’s yet one more character shield that the players might indeed value. Are you going to allow them to Sacrifice all Armor to avoid a hit? Or are you skipping that option altogether?

I found it made for some interesting roleplaying. One of my PCs stepped into a trap—something like a bear trap that didn’t pierce his armor in that location. When he succeeded at his Athletics test to break free from the trap, he rolled a Complication, and I ruled that his armor in that location was stripped away and irreparably damaged.

It becomes another form of Resource management. Now he either adventures about with a quite literal Achilles heel or he goes looking for Armor piecemeal, either having it crafted or pillaged somewhere.

1 Like