Would anyone mind a general rpg forum here that wasn't so much about rules for eaba but about rpging in general?

I was going to suggest it as I wanted to ask if anyone had evercome up with a good rule for simulating alien acid blood splash. I've wondered about it and it seems hard to simulate. Simple damage=acid splash does not work as some weapons might do hellacious damage but not create a big hole for the acid to spurt from (Say a high velocity hollopoint, perhaps an ideal weapon to fight the aliens with.) while something like a birdshot loaded shotgun might do little serious damage but make a lot of holes for acid to spray out of.

I never worked out a good solution to the acid blood splash issue and wondered if anyone had, a general rpg forum might be a good place to ask. Greg's too busy with eaba2 to ask, so I wondered if anyone else had any ideas.

Multiple hits = more splash, single hit = less splash, AP ammo or the like = splash -1, hollowpoints, buckshot, dumdums, HE = splash +1.

I don't exactly recall how Leading Edge Games' Aliens RPG simulated the splash (I tossed the rulebook years ago), but it felt like the poor creature was spraying liters of the stuff from every hit, and because of some pressure differential or something the acid flew pretty far.

Anyway, I'd say a single splash from a standard projectile hit would have a range of about a metre. The splash would project towards the direction of the attack, maybe in a narrow cone shape (+6 to hit), unless the damage was so high as to literally blow a limb off, in which case I'd say it's an area attack. In normal situations it would be pretty hard to avoid (maybe give it a 4d roll vs. defenses, plus the bonus to hit). From multiple hits you get extra sprays or extra hits, depending on how much you want to roll.

Damage-wise, maybe 2d of continuous damage, with +2 per extra spray hit.

Hmm, reasonable in some ways, but I still think a hollowpoint doesn't make a bigger entry wound than a regular bullet, it blossoms inside the target to maximize internal damage. So the entry wound is the same and so's the acid splash, Same for AP rounds.

What you really want is a nice HP would that makes a little hole towards you and a HUGE hole on the opposite side so the pressure mostly goes out the back and has less blood pressure to spray towards you.

Asides from that you have it pretty well. The reducing damage rule is mandatory for this. As for armor I'd say it would be pretty well destroyed like Hicks' breastplate was, maybe in a number of seconds equal to it's dice of armor. Sound fair?