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Message no. 1
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Instant death rules.
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:23:06 -0500
At 10:58 AM 10/28/96 +0100, Gurth wrote:

>There are rules that pretend to be instant-death rules in Fields of Fire,
>which work like this: if the Power Level of the attack is greater than
>twice the target's Body, every 2 successes left after the damage is staged
>to D, mean 1 extra box of damage. This works well against weak characters
>(up to a Body of 4 or so) but not if you want to kill typical street
>samurai, orks, or trolls.

I thought death was automatic if overflow damage EXCEEDED the body attribute?

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Message no. 2
From: NightLife <habenir@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Instant death rules.
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:18:24 -0500
>I thought death was automatic if overflow damage EXCEEDED the body attribute?

It is. ie game over, end of subject, etc...


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Then again maybe not.

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Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Instant death rules.
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:06:35 +0100
Ubiquitous said on 12:23/28 Oct 96...

> I thought death was automatic if overflow damage EXCEEDED the body attribute?

I believe you're right :/ I was working from memory, and I recalled once
looking up the rules and finding out that you died once you had overflow
_equal to_ your Body. Now I just looked it up again (SRII, last two
paragraphs of page 111 and Deadly Wounds and First Aid on page 113) and it
says you die if your Body rating is _exceeded_, not if it is _equalled_...
*grumble*

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Message no. 4
From: Mike Hartmann <hartmann@***********.M.EUNET.DE>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Instant death rules.
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:14:32 +0000
> > I thought death was automatic if overflow damage EXCEEDED the body attribute?
>
> Now I just looked it up again (SRII, last two
> paragraphs of page 111 and Deadly Wounds and First Aid on page 113) and it
> says you die if your Body rating is _exceeded_, not if it is _equalled_...

Hey that saved my live at least two times....-)
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