| From: | d_hyde@***.com (Derek Hyde) |
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| Subject: | Conditioning Strain (stun damage) |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:43:26 -0500 |
> getting 2 4's and making the L stun go away. Furthermore, in my
> games, at least, Stun is not grounds for workers comp or long term
> medical worry, as some responses to this thread have suggested. Stun
> is bruising and strain, sore muscles and headaches, the kind of stuff
> you sleep off. If a person willfully stresses a muscles or tendon
> through 10 boxes of Stun, something that would take a lot with my
> rule, they will take some minor damage. Natch. If you chop wood by
> hand for a few hours, you might get sore shoulders... Stun damage.
> If you aggravate your shoulders enough, you might pull something...
> Phys damage.
This is a good point on which to bring up a house rule I'm contemplating
instating.....
Conditioning. Plain and simple, conditioning, if you cut wood for hours,
after the first couple days your muscles have grown used to it and in fact
can handle even more strain with no drawbacks, the same holds true of firing
large caliber rifles, the first time you shoot a heavy rifle it hurts,
stings, and causes shock, the more you shoot it, the more your body becomes
accustomed to doing so, and the less it minds the punishment from it. As a
house rule I'm debating making it that if you're specialized in the weapon
at a skill beyond a 6, you'll pick up an extra point or two of recoil comp,
the reason for this being simply that when you're THAT intimately familiar
with the gun, you know what it's going to do and can compensate for it very
quickly, and be able to get it on target and fired again faster than someone
without.
Comments?
