Re: The Bow Assassin

From: Mark Galeotti <mark_at_...>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:57:01 -0000

> The problem is that a clean kill is difficult to get. He would
have had to
> spend a hero point to accomplish this which made it unsatisfying
indeed.

The point has already been made that the target would be ulikely to be dodging that effectively if the sniper was successfull firing from ambush, so a resistance 6 or a solid penalty on that Dodge would apply. But as regards 'clean kills', remember that the most likely outcome (sniper success vs bandit failure), a Minor Victory, is equivalent to driving someone to -11 to -20 AP (Ordinary Consequences table p132), more than enough to take someone to Hurt and out of a contest. If these are just mooks, of no real story consequence, then I'd generally rule that this was a kill. But if the bandit was of greater significance - or I felt like making him of greater significance - then, yes, he'd be injured and could crop up again at some point in the future, sore in every sense of the word...

All the best

Mark

Mark Galeotti