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Old 01-20-2019, 12:45 PM   #35
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Default Re: GURPS Action 5: Dictionary of Danger

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Originally Posted by Plane View Post
About "H is for Heat" on 16, if pushing a grappled foe into a heat source of 1d+ inflicts 1/die damage to you, including 2 for a barbecue grill, how is it that it's possible to press a beef patty onto a barbecue grill without burning your hand?
Two possibilities:

1 - Reality: A lit barbeque grill that you're pressing a patty on ain't doing no 1d+ damage. By the time you're putting a patty on, it's burned down, the flames have settled and you're only getting the heat of the coals. What's on the chart is for when it's still a veritable nuclear inferno with flames jetting several feet from the lighter fluid going up.

2 - This is pure Cinematic nonsense, it's right there on the cover where it says Action!*, so you should just not try to fit reality into it.



* Clearly the exclamation point is silent. ;)
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