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From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Types of injuries
Message-ID: <581@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 16:56:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 16:56:08 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Dec-85 03:33:36 EST
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Reply-To: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <15@druak.UUCP> mab@druak.UUCP (Alan Bland) writes:
>Concerning injuries in Justice Inc., Jim Gardner writes:
>> When you receive an impairing or disabling injury, you must make a
>> CON roll.  If you blow it, the damage is permanent (barring GM-produced
>> miracles).
>
>Are CON rolls easy to make in this situation, or do you end up with lots
>of permanent injuries?

The odds are about 60-40 that the average player character will succeed
in a straight CON roll.  For straight normals (who are less hardy than
the average PC), the odds are 50-50.

The reason that Justice Inc. characters don't retire in a pile of
bandages after a session or two is that it is very difficult to do
the amount of damage required to do an impairing or disabling injury
to a player character, since players usually construct their characters
with a high BODY stat (to avoid this very problem).  The result is
that PC's usually can take as much as a pistol shot to any part of
their body other than head or vitals and not be impaired.  You have
to get up into the elephant gun category before you have a reasonable
chance of doing enough damage to force someone into a CON roll.

			Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo