How to avoid killing your player characters as GM

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Colonel__Klink

With the damage profile of a rifle on the lower end of the power spectrum (5.56, 5 dice) without the damage limiter to limbs it would blow an unprotected limb O*F*F* every single time!

No, limb removal is always optional. The 2x removal suggestion is mostly meant for Cutting attacks anyway. Bullets don't "blast" limbs off even in Harsh Realism.

Also, 17 pts of damage won't be 2x for some characters built on 250 pts. With 16 HP the base threshold is 9pts and 2x is 18pts. 16 HP is quite reasonable fr 250pts and 20 or higher is possible.