Re: Star Wars: Armour and damage: straw poll

David Alex Lamb wrote:
> Simon Smith wrote:
>> Star Wars is unusual - and better-than-average - in that wounded 
>> characters
>> do suffer noticeable impairment almost immediately. Compare with the
>> opposite extreme; a D20 character who would still be 100% 
>> combat-effective
>> on 1 hit point even if he originally had more than 100. 
> 
> People on this list have pointed out that "no impairment until the end 
> of combat" more accurately reflects reality (or possibly, until a 
> signficant pause in combat): there is no "death spiral" where you get 
> less and less effective as combat proceeds and thus take more and more 
> damage.  Unless you take disabling levels of damage, of course, like 
> having body parts destroyed.  And even then there were re****tedly these 
> berserker guys...

That "no death spiral" assumption is justified only by firearm injury 
statistical data, whereas much RPG combat involves weapons that function 
very differently, and wound very differently, from present day firearms.

Either medieval weapons, or futuristic beam weapons, with lasers being 
one exception, and medieval arrows and crossbow bolts being the other.

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Peter Knutsen
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