Re: [HoE] Deadlands and strength

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>Am I crazy.... (well, let me rephrase)
>
>Am I wrong in thinking that if armor absorbs wounds for you you still take
>wind?  Or maybe Half wind?
>I could have sworn I read this somewhere.
>

Deadlands/HoE armor doesn't literally "absorb wounds" - it reduces the type 
and number of dice of damage rolled against the armored one.  Which works 
out to the same thing, sorta, in the long run, but "absorb wounds" sounds 
more like how the Bodyguard Hex or the Syker Force Field stuff works.

The only thing I know of that might relate to what you're talking about is 
in the HoE rulebook, page 97.  "In the rare cases a critter has no 
additional damage dice besides its Strength, it simply cannot penetrate 
anything with an Armor value of 1 or more.  Occasionally, the Marshal may 
rule big creatures can cause nonlethal brawlin' damage, even to heavily 
armored targets."

_How_ a Marshal reading this would know when to "occasionally" do this, and 
when not to, is not very clear.  There's nothing in the Marshal section.  I 
guess it's one of those things that gamers are "supposed" to know, and if 
you aren't...well hail and well met, good fellow - get thee hence to some 
other RPG and return to us when you are an experienced gamer/GM!  ;)

Not to pick on Pinacle too much, though - they are hardly unique in using 
these, "Well, a Marshal _might_ do this, that or that other...but then 
again, maybe not" without any real concrete suggestions kinda statements.  I 
guess I've just never been clear what the purpose of them are.  They're not 
helpful to inexperienced GMs, and experienced ons can figure it out for 
themselves.  Oh well.

That's the only thing I'm aware of right off hand that you might be 
referring to in the general rules.  There could be some kind of exception of 
some sort buried somewhere or another.

>--Dirk
>
>Steve Crow wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, I was going to note it yesterday, but AV1 makes you entirely 
>"brawl"
> > proof.  For the cost of a relatively cheap coverall suit of Junker AV1, 
>you
> > could suit up, wander into the Dive in Junkyard, get into brawls with 
>those
> > 6d12+12 Cyborgs, and watch all their blows bounce off of you... :)
> >
> > All you have to worrry about (sort of) is the Durability checks.
> >
> > >TBS
> >
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> >
> > Steve Crow
>
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