Attacking


Attacking - Attacks are actions that cause damage or manipulate a target. An attack uses at least one hit point to increase the attack power of that attack. Additional hit points can be used to manipulate the opponent (See Action Rules/Manipulation) or increase the damage of some weapons.

Attack Power - The attack power of a hand weapon or thrown weapon is the weapon's power bonus or the character's size - whichever is greater - plus the number of hit points used to increase the damage. The attack power of a bow is the bow's pull bonus.

Target Size - Larger targets are easier to hit, so the encumbrance of a target is added to the roll against the success of any attack against that target, even if the target is not defending or inanimate. A character or object's encumbrance is only applied once for each attack, so if a character is parrying an attack, don't add their encumbrance because the parry bonus already includes encumbrance. (See Characters/Description/Encumbrance.)

Attacking from a Distance - Use the bonus from this table (based on the distance from the attacker to the target) instead of the attacker's encumbrance if it is less than the attacker's encumbrance:

       cm/in             m/ft           m/ft           m/ft            m/ft

+30  18.8/7.50   +18  0.75/2.50   +6  3.0/10.0    -6  12/40.0   -18   48/160
+29  21.9/8.75   +17  0.88/2.92   +5  3.5/11.7    -7  14/46.7   -19   56/187
+28  25.0/10.0   +16  1.00/3.33   +4  4.0/13.3    -8  16/53.3   -20   64/213
+27  28.1/11.3   +15  1.13/3.75   +3  4.5/15.0    -9  18/60.0   -21   72/240
+26  31.3/12.5   +14  1.25/4.17   +2  5.0/16.7   -10  20/66.7   -22   80/267
+25  34.4/13.8   +13  1.33/4.58   +1  5.5/18.3   -11  22/73.3   -23   88/293
+24  37.5/15.0   +12  1.50/5.00    0  6.0/20.0   -12  24/80.0   -24   96/320
+23  44.8/17.5   +11  1.75/5.83   -1  7.0/23.3   -13  28/93.3   -25  112/373
+22  50.0/20.0   +10  2.00/6.67   -2  8.0/26.7   -14  32/107    -26  128/427
+21  56.3/22.5    +9  2.25/7.50   -3  9.0/30.0   -15  36/120    -27  160/480
+20  62.5/25.0    +8  2.50/8.33   -4   10/33.3   -16  40/133    -28  144/533
+19  68.8/27.5    +7  2.75/9.17   -5   11/36.7   -17  44/147    -29  176/587
+18  75.0/30.0    +6  3.00/10.0   -6   12/40.0   -18  48/160    -30  192/640
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