| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrun) |
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| Subject: | re re d100 and wounds line |
| Date: | Thu Dec 6 08:20:04 2001 |
wounds
(is adam still here he will tell you how many get up )
i have seen numerous things in my spate with the local armed
forces about 10 years back shock and horror stories as well
a guy getting hit in the forehead with a .38 special and the
bullet traversing his skull but not penetrating ( brings new
meaning to the word hard headed ) who once put in the
coroner van suddenly got up
a guy getting hit in the arm with a .222 and dying before
the medic got to him (arterial wound shattered bone )
it has to do with luck and survivability , this is what the
dice are for , you get more dice if you have more
survivability , and you roll them well if your lucky
as a gunshot victim i count myself among the latter , i am
no stronger physically than most other men of my age , so it
must have been luck , the thing SR doesn't reflect very well
is how effective even light wounds are , my hit was a leg
and got a lot of meat and very little bone (methinks it an L
or maybe a M wound) ( thankfully as it was .222 ) i was
still down on the floor not really concentrating on anything
else but why i was there , (BTW i felt nothing till i took a
step forward ) now okay i could hobble around but would i
return fire ? effectively ? by time medevac arrived (+-10
minutes ) i had bled about a leg full ( no i did not have a
measuring jug or the inclination to use it ) and overall
think that i rolled more than my fair share of successes to
resist damage (think assault rifle 8M damage)
but what about other cases where people weren't as lucky ,
they could of been hit well with a light calibre round
(.22LR) and killed stone dead , (Israeli hit squads used
underpowered .22 ) so i tend to favour , for realism sake,
no peak on damage if the shooter hits well , same with H-T-H
if the devil rat bites that jugular well it is game over ,
but for games sake i tend to throw just enough to hurt them
badly ( i have never killed a character yet , stupidity on
the other hand is a wicked fate )
Kanniemeernie Korperaal
"deep into the darkness peering long i stood there
wondering , fearing , doubting dreaming dreams
no mortal ever dared to dream before "
The raven - Edgar Allen Poe
