DAMAGE

[Stule]

Ok.

I think I messed up.

When Calculating Damage, if the player beats the damage roll then they take no damage?

I thought the 0-3 rating which means a character is Stunned meant that if the character was hit at all, they were at least Stunned.

Then I read in the SW R+E that if they beat the damage roll that they take no damage.

So does the "0" in 0-3 means that if you tie the roll, that you are Stunned but if you roll higher than it, you are unaffected by the attack?

It has just gotten me abit confused.

If beating the Damage roll with your Strength means that you take no damage, then I have a few players that are gonna be pissed!

Can anyone help me?

[Gry Sarth]

Yup, that's right, you've got some pissed players ahead of you. If you beat the damage roll, you take no damage whatsoever (your armor absorbed it, it was just a glance shot, etc). If you tie or loose by 3, you're stunned, and so on.

[Volar the Healer]

I always thought of zero damage as being when the bad guy hits the hero in the mouth, and the hero just smiles at him, after wiping off that little trickle of blood.
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[Grimace]

Yes, by the rules, if the roll is tied, the character is stunned. If the roll is higher, the character takes no damage. This, of course, leads to the infamous problem of "blaster proof wookiees".

So many GMs are always trying to figure out how to explain away that little problem of saying, "You hit! Roll damage. *pause* Oh... Okay, the blaster hits your bare skin and....does no damage."

I've gone to the method of saying that if the character gets hit, even if their resistance roll is above the damage roll, I still give out semi-superficial damage. I numb an appendage that is hit. I ruin clothes with burn marks and issue 1st and 2nd degree burns to the character, and I sometimes even up the difficulty number for their next action by 2 or 3 points, just so I don't have players the "...leap into the middle of the hallway and start blasting the stormtroopers, because they can't really hurt me since I have 6D Strength."

So you could keep doing what you're doing, simply to avoid those annoying problems, or you could hang your head and tell your players that they're right, you're wrong, and from now on they'll have blaster proof characters a lot of the time.

[Gry Sarth]

In my games blasters are usually pretty lethal. I mean it's never less than a 4D Blaster Pistol, usually a 5D heavy blaster or worse. And most players have STR of about 2D+2/4D usually with a +1 from a blast vest added. So statistically the damage will always beat STR doing at least stun damage. I have a player who's been killed by a single Blaster Pistol shot countless times, if it weren't for those darn Character Points.

BTW, don't you think that being allowed to spend up to 5 Character Points to resist damage is a bit abusive? That means you'd only die if you wanted to.

[Lord Ben]

My players always spend CP as soon as they get them. I think the 2nd highest in the party has like 3 CP? The highest has 27, but he's played the game before...

[TheFamousTommyZ]

[Tatum]

Yea, I used the damage modifier for head shots or other "called shots" to critical locations.

A 6D str wookie is a freakin tank and it does get annoying when the player plays it that way. The best way to fix that problem is to always have the biggest gun shooting at him and/or have most of the blasts comming his way in any given situation. I mean, if youre a huge, pile of hair charging stright into battle you have to expect everyone to shoot at you first. And, with all those shots comming his way chances are obviously higher that one of them will do some damage, even with less dice.

The CP thing is pretty easy to get around. Just roll the damage behind a screen, they wont know how bad theyre hit. You can even tell them that they need to use a cp to avoid damage or that its serious and they might want to use a few. This way, even when they use cp's the sometimes still take damage.

[Stule]

Sniff.

I hate being wrong.

Sigh.

Thanks for all the help.

I guess it's time to go get what I have coming to me.

[Volar the Healer]

[garhkal]

[Kehlin Yew]

the part about blaster proof wookies... well, it never hurt to have a few speeder bikes around, and when your in military training, they tell you, aim your biggest weapon at the biggest target. If you had this big guy running at you with a bootknife in his hand, shoot him with an RPG, or a flamethrower.
could you imagine what those two things would do to a wookie? being hit with a flamethrower would roast all the skin off and atleast leave 3rd degree burns all over the body.

[Zarm R'keeg]

[garhkal]

Were those stormies combining fire? Also what is that Talz's str+armor?
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