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Originally Posted by Nereidalbel
Minimum damage is 1 point, except for Crushing.
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I didn't think you meant that rule, because it's even less obvious to me that the basic "Damage Roll" section applies to a constant rad exposure with a fixed value, with no rolling involved. Nor does it suggest to me that a rule that calls for a roll with a minus not go negative is equivalent to putting a floor on all damage and methods for calculation, such as one point being divided to a fraction by range and rounding down.
Would you say that all creatures at any distance from even the tiniest explosion all take a minimum one point of damage? It's not at all hard to reduce the damage to under one die, and if you roll before division, still not hard to reduce damage to below 1 point.
In this case, we're talking about radiation with Dissipation. If the source is 1 rad / hour, and it Dissipates, then two hexes away it's 0.5 rad / hour and four hexes away it's 0.25 rad / hour. But it will never go to zero, even for victims on the other side of the planet -- or solar system. Rounding down seems like a reasonable way to calculate a limit on the effective area. It also fits the rule on B9 about rounding combat effects down (with injury as a specific example).