Re: [HOE] Burst Radius/Damage question

[mosiondz@shaw.ca]

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From: Mr Leonard Zimmermann <zimmerml@cnrf.navy.mil>
Date: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:08 am
Subject: Re: [HOE] Burst Radius/Damage question

> I don't have the rules with me, but I could have sworn that the 
> burst radius and massive damage rules as of the latest versions 
> (found in Waste Warriors and, I believe, on the PEG website) 
> suggest that in damage like this would be figured in the first 
> burst radius as 4d10 (for example) then in the next burst radius 
> as 3d10, then 2d10 then 1d10. That's massive damage so ALL areas 
> would take whatever wounds were rendered

From what I recall of the latest massive damage rules (I don't have a rules reference handy right now), you cause the full damage value to 1d6 hit locations in the first burst radius, 1d6-1 in the second, etc. until you get to 1d6-6.  The hit locations are determined randomly, so you can easily get a limb blown off if you take damage to the same limb three times in a row, as what happened to my Posse's Doomsayer.

It's certainly deadly, but then so are explosions.  On the PEG HoE website they've reduced the damage of some things that cause Massive Damage:

http://www.peginc.com/Downloads/Errata/HOEErrata.htm

You'll notice the Nuke miracle now starts at a base 3d12 damage, for example.
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