Re: [SR] How do I convert damage from 2nd ed to 3rd ed?

> #4) Shot by a dinky little Streetline Special.
>     Ya might think "Woooooooo 3L1 damage? I am shaking in my boots...
>     NOT". But these things were actually pretty potent.  Sure against
>     a deadly 
> level attack you only needed to roll 4 threes on your body to take no
> damage... don't worry about armour or dodge pool.
>     BUT... imagine if a d00d has a streetline special, a skill of 8,
>     has it 
> smartlinked, and is shooting you at point blank range with the
> thing... 
>     Rolling for 2s, say he gets all 8:  Stage damage up to Deadly
>     (using up 
> 3 successes) and... woops, he has 5 extra successes!  That means your
> 5/3 armour jacket is now (0/0).
>     Next round, his buddies shoot you with SMGs... suddenly your 5
>     automatic 
> successes from armour are gone...
> Translation: Call this thing "the can opener".  A party armed with 2
> guys with streetline specials and 1with a panther assault cannon can
> pretty much kill anybody off, even if they are a troll in a full suit
> of armour (the 2 streetline specials should destroy all his armor...
> leaving them with body dice, a target number of 10 and needing 4
> successes just to stage the damage down to Serious)


Armor was ignored for that one attack, not destroyed permanently.  It still 
confounds me the number of people who misread that rule.



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