One Weapon & Armor Matrix

[Graylion]

One Weapon & Armor Matrix to rule them all and in the game bind them. Oh wait I got carried away.

This is a table I wrote up for my Vampire the Requiem Dark Ages and Chronicles of Darkness Campaign I ran for several years.

I have resurrected this as I wrap my arms around StoryPath and see similarities and departures from the One system I envision using for all my story based RPGs.

I used a modified CoD system which required successes similar to Exalted 3E and Trinity 1E. I humorously called it One.

So for example if a targets CoD Defense would be 7 then in One it would be 4 (7/2 RdUp). One of the things I discovered was that because it required successes then all weapon damage needed to be 1 higher. Because if you hit by achieving your targets defense with a 0L dagger it failed. But if you add 1 to all the weapons they work So in Vampire the Masquerade, Trinity 1E if you hit a 3 Defense with three success wielding a dagger you inflict 1L providing they are not wearing armor. That is one of the reasons I am so intrigued by the Storypath Stunt system. It fixes so much for me.

Anyway I just quickly typed up my hand written table

It has been a while since I ran the math and comparisons, so I imagine there are mistakes but I tend to "make it fit".

The cool thing is with this I can now pick up any number of systems books and convert a weapon on the fly.
As a note I was not nearly happy with the armor conversion as I was with the weapons. You have to squeeze way too much statistics of other armor systems down to a very small scale with CoD/One but any other choice end up creating way too much of a re-write.

Anyway love any feedback.

Best regards

[Graylion]

One Weapon Matrix

Weapon	One Rating	CoD	Trinity 1E	EX3	D&D 5E
Dagger, Fist	1	0	1-2d	7d	1d4
Short Sword, Hatchet, Short Bow, Light Pistol, Revolver, SMG Laser Pistol, Flechette Pistol	2	1	3-4d	7d	1d6
Long Sword, Log Bow Heavy Pistol, Revolver, SMG Flechette Carbinbe	3	2	5-6d	9d	1d8
Bastard Sword, Katana Shotgun, Assault Rifle Laser Carbine	4	3	7-8d	11d	1d10
Great Sword Rifle, Plasma Rifle Light Coilgun	5	4	9-10d	11d	1d12 2d6
Heavy Coil Gun	6	5	11-12d
Vibroblades	+1 Dmg
Artifacts / Formatted Biotech 3+ Dots	+1 Atk/Dmg		+1 Atk/Def
Olaminum Rounds (Laced/Pure)	+1/+2 Dmg

One Armor Matrix

Full Suits	Penalty/ Strength	One Rating /Soak	Penalty/ Strength	Partial Suit
Reinforced ClothingT TrenchcoatC, Padded ClothingC FiberweaveT	Mob -0 Str 1	1 CoD 1	Mob -0 Str 1	Jacket
LeatherCD, HideD, StuddedD Sports GearC Vac-SuitT, BioweaveT (Bio)	Mob -1 Str 2	2 CoD 2 EX3 Light 3	Mob -0 Str1	Kevlar VestC, Armored VestT Buff JacketE
ChainmailCD, Artifact Silk ArmorE Field SuitT Ablative Body SuitM	Mob -2 Str 3	3 CoD 3 EX3 Medium 5	Mob -1 Str 2	Flak JacketC, Chain ShirtD (Concealed) Reinforced Buff JacketE (Silent)
Full Riot GeatC, Combat ArmorT BioVargT, Articulated PlateE Full Plate MailCD	Mob -2 Str 3	4 CoD 3 EX3 Heavy 7	Mob -1 Str 2	Reinforced Breast PlateDE
Bomb SuitC	Mob -5 Str 3	5 CoD 5	NA	NA
Formatted Biotech 3+ Dots (+1 Mobilty vs Penalty, Max +0)			Artifact 3+ dots (+1 Soak)
Olaminum Heavy Metal (Laced +1 Soak / Pure +2 Soak)			Spikes (B=L)
Munbdane Soak vs Explosives (1/2 RdUp)

C (Chronicles of Darkness - Various) | D (Dungeons & Dragons 5E) | E (Exalted 3E) | M (MechWarrior) | T (Trinity 1E)
Systems omitted (Silhouette Core, MechWarrior, Palladium)

The Files are here as well.

Best regards

[Graylion]

I believe that my One column could become the Storypath Enhancement bonus for each weapon which is essentially a damage bonus only it helps you achieve the stunts of damage and critical along with assort other cool effects instead of rabiting up to be oneshot kill alls in CoD.