I'm assuming that if the attacker did use a decapitation action, the vampire would have to use an ability to defend other than the "can't be killed one", right?
> eg Vampire is set to 10w3, newbies at 10w would have little chnace,
> but a hero at 10w3 would be skilled enough to overcome this.
Presumably by tends to be good enough that aiming for the neck is a matter of course, or something like that.
> Likewise a vampire could have a flaw "Vulnerable to garlic", which
> could be exploited...
How would you use the the flaw in this manner?
> A player has his sword out and announces a normal attack, 10AP. The
> vampire defends with "Cant be killed". The superior vampire
> obviously wins and inflicts damage back on the attacker... how does
> one rationalise such a result with a skill that is essentially an
> invulnerability... why does it do damage? I can sort of see ways
> but thought it useful to get other comments...
I would play it up as a growing sense of despair and futility ("What are we going to do? We can't even HURT it, let alone kill it!"). Add in some fatigue and the occaissional counterblow by the vampire. Eventually, the hero will be utterly exhausted and demoralized (i.e. AP 0), leaving the vampire to do whatever parting shot it wishes (leave, capture, eat, whatever).
Mike Ryan
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