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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mordane76" data-source="post: 690600" data-attributes="member: 7172">Alright...So -- we set up a screen between the groups.  There are four conditions: real dagger, real pineapple, placebo dagger, and placebo pineapple...The real items are obviously... real.The placebos are made out of really bouncy rubber.The person wielding the item is given a random object, selected from the four choices.  He must then throw it down the pipe at the test subject, whose face he cannot see because of a screen.A researcher will watch both the wielder and the subject as he is hit with the object.  Separate records will be taken at each end, and the subject/wielder relation will be coded with a number.We will use bruise size in diameter for the damage induced by the pineapples and penetration depth for the damage induced by the dagger.  Then we will correlate these data into a chart to ascertain the damage induced so we can find a proper damage die type for the D&D application.</blockquote>