Re: (TFT) A Point of Damage

[Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>]

there are three ways to justify this:
1) Strength represents ability to keep going despite damage- a long,  
deep cut might stop a weak or even normal person, but a very tough,  
disciplined, well trained and experienced warrior will be able to take  
one or two of these without losing the will and energy to fight. This  
even applies to bad organ damage, as though this sort of thing will  
end up killing you in real life, all the time people keep going for  
quite a long while (at least on the tactical level) despite these  
sorts of injuries. And, in fact, if you are able to rest and  
recuperate, many of these injuries are even survivable, more so for  
people who are good at surviving that sort of stuff (and would  
therefore have a higher strength).
2) Strength represents the ability to avoid taking as harsh damage. A  
troll has more strength than a human, because a cut as deep as that on  
a human will be but a papercut on a troll, hence despite seeming to  
take 'equal' damage, he doesn't have as bad of a situation, because  
there is just more of him to kill! Same applies from human to human  
(there isn't THAT much variation in TFT, and only a few hits will kill  
even the mightiest heroes, but the bigger and tougher skinned you are  
the)
3) Most damage in TFT is either just a bit (representing a small, non  
fatal stab or cut, perhaps a bad bruise from internal bleeding from  
non-piercing weapons) or quite a bit (the sort of damage that could be  
fatal, more so if you aren't very tough, even more so if you are a  
weakling, and so on). One cut is probably survivable, as it will only  
bleed so fast and the damage is likely to be fairly limited by your  
own natural defenses, and if, for example, you are able to dress  
wounds afterward, a single cut is really not much to worry about.  
However, as those smaller wounds stack up, you are losing more and  
more quicker, your body has more to defend and less resources to do  
so, and you are getting faint quicker and quicker as you lose blood. A  
tougher person would be someone who can resist this loss of control to  
injury better than others. In TFT, this same sort of person has a  
higher chance of surviving hits that could be fatal to others due to  
this increased toughness.

All of these are basically similar.
Most importantly regarding your question, all of them ARE realistic.
My little old grandmother is rather fragile, and could quite easily  
die from minor cuts, a bad hit, or even tripping.
A marine can not only live but keep functioning despite broken ribs,  
and even a regular person would probably barely notice the sort of  
damage that could kill the little old lady.
That is essentially how strength works.
Think about your question for a second- you are basically suggesting  
that beyond the idea that some people who aren't used to pain go down  
too easily due to the pain itself, that injuries are basically equal  
on everyone, that no one person is tougher or healthier than another,  
and that even if they were, it doesn't effect injuries. But as I'm  
sure you can tell your own self, all the time in regular life we  
observe how healthier, tougher people are more resistant to damage of  
all kinds- flesh wounds AND worse injuries.

And that is what strength in TFT is.
On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:50 AM, Jay Carlisle wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Tapley"
>
>
> Okay your compleatly right about that "flesh wound" bit.
> ...
> In boxxing it'd be called a 'glass jaw'.
> ... however...
> Internal wounds require surgery.
> ...
> I don't like the idea that "rushing into combat" is the risk of a  
> group of 'flesh wounds'.
> ...
> This seems biased to me.......
> I don't care WHO you are... a ruptured splean is just that... "Iron  
> Crotch" only goes so far...
> Shouldn't our statistics help to define such?
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