Re: [HoE] A Cry for Damage Understanding!

[DarrinBrig@aol.com]

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

> 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!

Damage does not equal wounds.  Once you have a damage total (in your case 11,
but you didn't reroll the 6, so it was probably higher), divide by the
target's size.  In most cases, human-sized targets have a size of 6, not 5.
So 11 damage would cause 1 wound level of damage (you round down when
determining wounds... you don't do 2 wound levels until you get 12 damage).
Thus, a person's size determines how much damage constitutes a wound.  6 =
light, 12 = heavy, 18 = serious, and so on.  

Once you have determined how many wounds, roll 1d6 wind for each wound and
reroll any aces.  Thus, you're much more likely to wind up winded than dead.