Re: Re: (TFT) Doing damasge modernly

[pvk@oz.net]

>> But lots of people have taken .22s to the torso and
>> lived.
>
> Thanks to modern medicine and modern transportation.

There are accounts too of people full of adrenaline and/or drugs who were
shot multiple times in the torso with .22s and it had little effect on
them as far as the next minute of fighting. Advocates of higher-calibre
handguns for self-defense in particular (though perhaps not the most
unbiased opinions) tend to claim that a .22 pistol needs to hit specific
targets to reliably stop an assailant, while a more powerful pistol will
do so even without hitting anything specific.

Whether people eventually survive is also a different question from
whether they stop fighting, at least in reality.

> Its hard to handle these kinds of weapons without
> classifying weapons according to their damage type,
> ie piercing, etc.

Yes. So again, much depends on desire for accuracy versus playability, and
also on how lethal the players want combat to be. I tend to think it makes
sense to figure out how things work in real life accurately and
realistically, then figure out what the players want combat to be like,
and then try to make up playable rules for that.

PvK
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