Gunfighter occ fast draw question.

(SHIFTY) · Unread post by **(SHIFTY)** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:30 pm

A fellow player in my group and I were wondering. His character is a Gunfighter with a PP of 22, giving him a plus 3 to initiative. It says to halve this bonus when using knives and and staves that fire bolts and shotguns and the like. He and I both suck at math and were wondering if we halve his score of three would we make his initiative score 2 or 1 (As you know half of 3 is 1.5).

Vrykolas2k · Unread post by **Vrykolas2k** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:49 pm

As far as I know, the rules of math always round up from a .5 on...

Mack · Unread post by **Mack** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:56 pm

Hmph. Good Question. Normally it will specify to round up or down. GM's call really, although I agree with Mike's reasoning.

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:20 am

Every other instance I can recall in Palladium (most recently in my reviewing of charcter creation as to the major psi mods...) round down.

grandmaster z0b · Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:25 am

You could just add 1.5, if someones initiative is 13.5 they would attack before an initiative of 13 but after an initiative of 14.
It's not a big deal but it's still probably easier to round one way or another.

Skiles99 · Unread post by **Skiles99** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:44 am

Vrykolas2k wrote:As far as I know, the rules of math always round up from a .5 on...

Makes sense to me. When in doubt, go with the math.

Athos · Unread post by **Athos** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:53 pm

z0b wrote:You could just add 1.5, if someones initiative is 13.5 they would attack before an initiative of 13 but after an initiative of 14.
It's not a big deal but it's still probably easier to round one way or another.

Excellent Solution.