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18m isn't that excessive - modern Special Forces troops drop out of helicopters 25m up or higher, carrying all their heavy gear.
They don't
fall out of their helicopters, they use ropes to control/slow their descent. If they fell from 25m, not many of them would be able to move, let alone fight, afterwards.
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Maybe its some kind of hand gliding technique.
Possibly, if there's a convenient wall to "glide" down. But that seems fairly unlikely to me (and won't cover every eventuality).
Abundant foliage to fall down (as in the film "Avatar") might be better treated as a series of smaller falls.Quote:
This is fantasy.
Yes, but moving into the realms of "high fantasy" in my opinion. It's on reading this rule that I started to understand why I was reading comments regarding "super-hero" abilities on other threads...
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Maybe on the third selection you can let the option to rise up 15m (or more) with an anecdotic damage (1 hp : it could let the choice the player to suffer this low damage) ?
This suggestion got me thinking of an alternative.
Instead of taking full damage on exceeding a 6m fall, an Assassin that has bought the skill again may fall upto 12m, but between 6m and 12m he will take damage as if he had fallen 6m less than he has - i.e. a fall of 9m would now be treated as (9m-6m)=3m, or 1d4 HP damage.
In practice, that means that an Assassin in any kind of armour (absorbs 2HP damage), having taken the skill a second time, can fall 8m without damage. Beyond that he would take 1d4-2HP damage for a 10m fall, and 1d6-2HP damage for a 12m fall. Above 12m, he would revert to taking the full damage for the fall (any "hand gliding" technique now fails).
An Assasin that buys the skill a third time may fall upto 12m without damage. For 12m - 18m he will calculate the distance fallen, this time removing 12 from the distance (so a fall of 15m is treated as a 3m fall).
In other words, it now becomes possible to fall distances unthinkable for most people, but the Assassin is unlikely to get away without a sprain or a nasty bruise...
Thoughts?