Damage

Damage is measured in Life Points. Each attack action has a base damage number or a formula, which is calculated and listed under Combat Manoeuvres for the Cast presented in this pack. The actual damage inflicted is equal to the base damage, plus one per Success Level of the attack roll, minus any armour Value possessed by the defender (if applicable), multiplied by any damage type or other modifiers. In the case of bullet or slash/stab damage, damage is doubled against normal humans (bullet damage is not doubled against vampires). Bash damage has no multiplier.

Bash attacks (Punches, Kicks, baseball bats, and so on) can be turned into Knockout attacks, using a Dexterity and Kung Fu - 2, or Dexterity and Getting Medieval - 2 roll, or the Combat Score - 2. The total damage of the attack is halved, but the victim has to make a Constitution (doubled) roll (or use the Muscle Score) with a penalty equal to the Success Levels of the Knockout roll. If she fails, she goes down for the count. Blasts from a taser are resisted similarly, with a penalty equal to five plus the Success Levels of the attack. Recovery from a knockout is in your fiendish Directory hands; the victim may recover in a few turns, or wake up an hour later... possibly in captivity.

Fire damage is a special case. A person on fire takes three points of damage every Turn until somebody puts her out. If more than 20 points of Fire damage are inflicted on a character, some scarring occurs. Fire damage also heals at half the normal rate (or one Life Point per Constitution level per day for vampires); the player should keep track of fire damage separately. On the plus side, fire can kill vampires, if they burn long enough. A vampire reduced to -10 Life Points or below must make Survival Tests, dusting out if they die.