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Old 07-27-2012, 09:03 PM   #17
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Default Re: Doesn't Bleed- Rules Exemption (Bleeding)?

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Originally Posted by roguebfl View Post
That's as wrong as saying becuase you have no blood your immunity to heart attacks because you don't need to pump to keep the flow. in GURPS that is a separate advantage.

Be it blood choke or wind pipe chokes, they are both covered by Doesn't breath
IT:No Blood expliticly covers attacks that off blood. That would include blood chokes, and also anything that would cut off blood flow to limbs so as to get the die and need to be amputated.

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Originally Posted by Langy View Post
Blood chokes are in no fashion covered by Doesn't Breath; they're covered by IT: No Blood.

Remember, blood and bleeding in GURPS doesn't just represent actual human blood. It doesn't have to have anything to do with oxygen; it's just a vital fluid that, if cut off from the body, injures it. IT: No Blood definitely covers Blood Chokes, and Doesn't Breath definitely does not, since a Blood Choke could have nothing at all to do with oxygen or breathing or anything like that.
This is a very good point. Technically the thing could be an alien or strange magical creature. It needn't be blood. Hence, you might not "bleed" (lose HP as per "Bleeding" optional rules), but you might be for some reason affected by blood-borne agents... and yet you might not be affected by attacks that cut off blood flow, even if in humans a major consequence of that is the build-up of endogenous toxins. They're three different separate things... just like heart attacks, for which IT:No Blood also does not confer immunity as was noted..
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