I'm not sure this would work very well, as HTH is generally difficult for most characters to hit with.  It's arguably one of the worst attacks, and many people house-rule to make the base chance higher.

Your method sounds more like the reduction to attacks would work on the back end.  In other words, a character would still be hit by an attack, but the defense would reduce damage, sort of the way Invulnerability does.

I think the chart works really well, though it is a bit unwieldy and more work than one generally sees in RPGs nowadays.

dsumner wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 11:00pm:


i did the same thing (base of a 8 to hit), and change a bit the table too

It's like there is a +3 for the HTH base except for the powers astral projection, non corporealness and all the powers for which the base is still 0.

and for mind control/emotion control. The bonus/malus for Charisma and/or Intelligence is not +/2 but +1 for every 5 points of difference in those score between the attacker and the defender. I can't remember if i read this here or if it came from my brain. I think i read it here 

furthermore i add darkness control in the table (like in the first version ?) but didn't had the opportunity to use it yet