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Chapter 10: Combat
Damage by Armor and Type of Attack
Different armors provide different kinds of
protection. Types of attacks are more effective
against 1 kind of armor than another. Whenever a
character who wears armor is attacked successfully,
consult the tables on the following pages to modify
the damage.
Different types of attacks are described below:
Brawling attacks, for the most part, are technically
pounding attacks, though pounding attacks
are strictly those with weapons, while brawling attacks
use only a character’s limbs. Brawling attacks,
however, may also include choking, clawing, and
headbutting. Brawling attacks are often described
as beating, choking, hitting, kicking, knocking,
punching, slapping, thrashing, and wailing.
Hacking attacks are usually slashing motions
or chops made at a foe with a bladed weapon, such
as an axe or a sword. Hacking attacks serve to cut,
dismember, divide, hew, part, sever, split, or rend
asunder a foe.
Pounding attacks are those in which an attacker
bludgeons or uses crushing force, such as from
a hammer, though most spiked weapons are predominantly
pounding weapons. Pounding attacks
are often described as beating, clubbing, comminuting,
grinding, hitting, impacting, knocking, pulverizing,
triturating, waffling, and wailing.
Stabbing attacks are attempts to thrust, ram,
or shove an object designed to pierce the skin and
thereby gore, impale, pierce, penetrate, or puncture
the body of a foe, usually with a long, thin, sharp
weapon, such as the tip of a sword, dagger, or
polearm.
Burning attacks are attempts to blister,
scald, singe, scorch, ignite, roast, or incinerate a foe
with intense heat or open flame. Most often, this is
accomplished with fire. Note that metal armors are
especially susceptible to burning attacks.
Freezing attacks often use frost, ice, snow,
or cold winds to chill, cool, benumb, nip or solidify
a foe. Note that metal armors are especially susceptible
to freezing attacks.
Electrocuting attacks are most commonly
accomplished with lightning, and serve to burn, electrify,
galvanize, and shock a foe. Note that metal
armors are especially susceptible to electrocution
attacks.
Corroding attacks are mostly comprised of
acid, and serve to eat away, erode, waste, or wear
away at a foe.
Sonic attacks utilize dangerous sound waves
to damage a foe.
Wind attacks are typically powerful gusts of
wind capable of inflicting damage.
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