Re: [HoE] A Cry for Damage Understanding!

[CSASgt@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/18/98 4:09:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, twilight@vbe.com
writes:

> People,
>  
>  I'm am confused on how to interpret damage in the game. I understand up
>  until the point of determining damage. How many damage points equal a
>  wound? I can't seem to figure this out at all and the book does little
>  more than confuse me on this matter.
>  
>  For example, Jade, a Scavie using a police pistol fires a round at some
>  random living creature. She rolls a 3d6 on her damage roll and gets a 2,
>  3, 6 so by the book that means she got a damage total of 11, so does
>  that her victim takes 11 wounds? or is there a differentiation between
>  wounds and damage? I do see that each area of the body has 5 wound
>  levels, so does this mean her victim's arm or leg or whatnot is utterly
>  blasted away? eek! someone help me!
>  


A person takes one wound per his size in damage.  Assuming someone has a Size
of 6, each 6 points equals a wound.  If someone had Big'un, that would be a 7
or 8 Size; therefore, each 8 points would be a wound.

In your example, 11 damage would be divided by 6 (we'll assume she's shooting
a Black Hat) and it would cause 1 wound (you round down with wound
calculations).

Hope that helped.

Brian Ward