Wounded twice

[Vartax]

Who uses the double wounded status on the revised edition? And what do you think about it vs. the single wounded status.

[Rathe Ehtar]

I like the fact that you could be really hurt, but conscious enough to get the hell out of the fire and far away from the frying pan.

I never tried the earlier versions of the game.
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[Urhart the Fallen Angel]

I use that all the time to show that the caracter is so hurt that they are about to die but they can still know who saves them (or whether a person doesn't bother). Sometimes I also do enough damage to kill the character, but they are still alive and consious, that way they can know what hit them.
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[Loc Taal]

I like the new wounded twice rule in the Revised and Expanded Edition. It's a bit easier on the characters by letting them take more damage. I think it's also more realistic because soldiers often suffer more than one wound and live to tell about it.

NOTE: The old Second Edition rules didn't have wounded twice. If a wounded character was wounded again, they became incapacitated.
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[Crell Damar]

yeah, just being wounded twice has ended up saving a lot of the characters in my urban war game, but i've also seen it screw over some players many times before
but if it were only good, then it wouldn't be balanced enough to be a good rule
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[Vartax]

overall for me it's worked pretty good. I think it does give it a bit more of a chance for a strong character to survive while a small fry that gets wounded too easy suffers from.....bad genes?

[roguesquad]

This question doesn't have much about being wounded twice, but simply being wounded at all. Maybe I missed it, but in the rule book for 2nd edition, ( I don't have the revised and expanded version), for the stun result, the damage is 0 to 3 points in range. Am I missing something, or if it does no damage, then why does it stun the person. And what if they are wearing armor? Does it still stun them even though it did no damage? Is that rule there just so there always a chance of stunning a person?
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[Crell Damar]

in our games if they person soaks all the damage (takes 0) then we don't call it stunned... we just say the blast rolled off him... or he narrowly avoided what could have been a lethal blast... I think the 0 damage for a -1D to everything for 2 rounds is crappy... It's all GM's discretion
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[Phaedrus]

I think that the rule for twice wounded keeps the mortality rate of the game down, which I like. I'm not one for killing off PC's, unless they do something stupid With weapons that can deal out a pretty good amount of damage, and most PC's not having a very high strength, I feel that the mortality rate of Star Wars is pretty high when compaired with some other RPG's. I mean, even the standard 5D damage for a storm trooper rifle is pretty high, when humans can't have more then 4D in strength. This makes armor almost essential! And as a GM, and as a player, I hate killing off characters. So I feel that twice wounded is a great thing.

Now for the stun rules, like Crell, I've often debated about the 0-3 damage is a stun. 0 points of damage is a tricky one. If your armor eats most of the blaster bolt, you shouldn't have any ill effects, but then no one should be able to take a blaster bolt and just shrug it off. I guess I'm still up in the air about it. I'll probably stick with the original rules for now.

Well thats my two cents worth

~ phaedrus
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[garhkal]

Waves hand in air 8)

As for The damage chart... it still goes wounded - incap - mortal wounded. It is just with this level there, you can get 2 wounded results. As to the stun/wound combination, i would say it DOES combine.
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[KageRyu]

I like the idea of multiple wounds, and have actually expanded it for my games. I allow a character to sustain a number of wounds equal to STRENGTH before passing out from trauma and shock. For most characters this is 2 or 3 wounds. This applies to NPCs as well. It creates slightly more of the action movie feel I like, and yes, the wound penalties are cumulative.
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[garhkal]

But does that not make comabt more 'easier'?? Also, does your damage chart (from getting hit) still go stun/wound/incap/MW?
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[garhkal]

Fare enough.
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