Crafting: Modifying Damage Types

Take Nunchaku, convert crushing to
piercing, and you're done.

So this is a simple follow up to yesterday's post about using enhancements to create new cost
enhancements in the form of cost factors. This time though I am reverse engineering the cost of more difficult advantages and enhancements to make some customization options that are hopefully slightly grounded in game balance and system consistency, but divorced from realism.

Changing Damage Type

The cost factor of modifying damage type is based on ratios of the cost of different types of innate attacks. From that, I generated the following values. To get these cost factors, I took the ratios of the cost of the innate attack advantages, and then, just by feeling, decided that if the ratio was equal or greater than 1 (that is, the damage type is overall a mechanical improvement) then I would multiply it by 3 and round it up. If it was less than 1 (overall a mechanical regression) then I would round the ratio up to the nearest tenth and add it to -1,

Original Damage Type	New Damage Type	Cost Factor
Burning	Corrosion	6
Burning	Crushing	3
Burning	Cutting	5
Burning	Fatigue	6
Burning	Impaling	5
Burning	Small Piercing	-0.4
Burning	Piercing	3
Burning	Large Piercing	4
Burning	Huge Piercing	5
Burning	Toxic	-0.2
Corrosion	Burning	-0.5
Corrosion	Crushing	-0.5
Corrosion	Cutting	-0.3
Corrosion	Fatigue	3
Corrosion	Impaling	-0.2
Corrosion	Small Piercing	-0.7
Corrosion	Piercing	-0.5
Corrosion	Large Piercing	-0.4
Corrosion	Huge Piercing	-0.2
Corrosion	Toxic	-0.6
Crushing	Burning	3
Crushing	Corrosion	6
Crushing	Cutting	5
Crushing	Fatigue	6
Crushing	Impaling	5
Crushing	Small Piercing	-0.4
Crushing	Piercing	3
Crushing	Large Piercing	4
Crushing	Huge Piercing	5
Crushing	Toxic	-0.2
Cutting	Burning	-0.3
Cutting	Corrosion	5
Cutting	Crushing	-0.3
Cutting	Fatigue	5
Cutting	Impaling	4
Cutting	Small Piercing	-0.6
Cutting	Piercing	-0.3
Cutting	Large Piercing	-0.2
Cutting	Huge Piercing	4
Cutting	Toxic	-0.5
Fatigue	Burning	-0.5
Fatigue	Corrosion	3
Fatigue	Crushing	-0.5
Fatigue	Cutting	-0.3
Fatigue	Impaling	-0.2
Fatigue	Small Piercing	-0.7
Fatigue	Piercing	-0.5
Fatigue	Large Piercing	-0.4
Fatigue	Huge Piercing	-0.2
Fatigue	Toxic	-0.6
Impaling	Burning	-0.4
Impaling	Corrosion	4
Impaling	Crushing	-0.4
Impaling	Cutting	-0.2
Impaling	Fatigue	4
Impaling	Small Piercing	-0.7
Impaling	Piercing	-0.4
Impaling	Large Piercing	-0.3
Impaling	Huge Piercing	3
Impaling	Toxic	-0.5
Small Piercing	Burning	5
Small Piercing	Corrosion	10
Small Piercing	Crushing	5
Small Piercing	Cutting	7
Small Piercing	Fatigue	10
Small Piercing	Impaling	8
Small Piercing	Piercing	5
Small Piercing	Large Piercing	6
Small Piercing	Huge Piercing	8
Small Piercing	Toxic	4
Piercing	Burning	3
Piercing	Corrosion	6
Piercing	Crushing	3
Piercing	Cutting	5
Piercing	Fatigue	6
Piercing	Impaling	5
Piercing	Small Piercing	-0.4
Piercing	Large Piercing	4
Piercing	Huge Piercing	5
Piercing	Toxic	-0.2
Large Piercing	Burning	-0.2
Large Piercing	Corrosion	5
Large Piercing	Crushing	-0.2
Large Piercing	Cutting	4
Large Piercing	Fatigue	5
Large Piercing	Impaling	4
Large Piercing	Small Piercing	-0.5
Large Piercing	Piercing	-0.2
Large Piercing	Huge Piercing	4
Large Piercing	Toxic	-0.4
Huge Piercing	Burning	-0.4
Huge Piercing	Corrosion	4
Huge Piercing	Crushing	-0.4
Huge Piercing	Cutting	-0.2
Huge Piercing	Fatigue	4
Huge Piercing	Impaling	3
Huge Piercing	Small Piercing	-0.7
Huge Piercing	Piercing	-0.4
Huge Piercing	Large Piercing	-0.3
Huge Piercing	Toxic	-0.5
Toxic	Burning	4
Toxic	Corrosion	8
Toxic	Crushing	4
Toxic	Cutting	6
Toxic	Fatigue	8
Toxic	Impaling	6
Toxic	Small Piercing	-0.3
Toxic	Piercing	4
Toxic	Large Piercing	5
Toxic	Huge Piercing	6

Other Thoughts and Closing

Most of these damage types don't even exist for most mundane weapons, but meh, I made a formula in a spreadsheet, so it wasn't hard to generate numbers for every value. I chose totally arbitrarily to multiply by 3, and I think the numbers come out pretty good for the positive cost factors. Of course, you could use a different multiplier, but somehow, most of the numbers seem just right to me.