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Maz · 10-22-2018, 05:44 AM

Injury is not "HP lost".

The "max 1/2" cap on limbs is for HP loss, not for injury.

So if your a normal HP:10 human and take a 8 damage cutting sword blow to the leg you have 3 different values:

Damage: The 8 damage, used to see if you overcome DR. And to calculate injury.
Injury: Injury for a cutting attack to leg would be x1,5 = 12 injury (assuming you have no DR).
HP loss: This is above the cap of 1/2. So you only lose 5 HP. However the leg still took 12 injury. Which is more than twice the cap.

Apart from dismemberment that Anthony mention is is also used for Bleeding rules.
Different rules such as UB, but also the more detailed it locations from MA affect these 3 values differently... and not always entirely consistent.

10-22-2018, 05:44 AM	#5
Maz Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Denmark	Re: Unbreakable Bones and injury limits Injury is not "HP lost". The "max 1/2" cap on limbs is for HP loss, not for injury. So if your a normal HP:10 human and take a 8 damage cutting sword blow to the leg you have 3 different values: Damage: The 8 damage, used to see if you overcome DR. And to calculate injury. Injury: Injury for a cutting attack to leg would be x1,5 = 12 injury (assuming you have no DR). HP loss: This is above the cap of 1/2. So you only lose 5 HP. However the leg still took 12 injury. Which is more than twice the cap. Apart from dismemberment that Anthony mention is is also used for Bleeding rules. Different rules such as UB, but also the more detailed it locations from MA affect these 3 values differently... and not always entirely consistent.