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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MadBlue" data-source="post: 1369697" data-attributes="member: 7552">I mentioned this in the UA thread, but it's probably more appropriate here. Sneak Attack damage isn't multiplied by a critical hit because it's already assumed to be hitting a vital area. If it only does Vitality damage on a critical hit, it sounds more like you've redefined Sneak Attack to mean you're hitting a pressure point, or some other non-vital area, which is more likely to incapacitate, rather than kill, the subject. Which sounds like as decent a way to convert the ability as converting d6 to 1 Wound point is. My question then is, how does Sneak Attack work on a subject who has no VP left? Does it convert to Wound Damage then or is it non-effective?What if the DR is higher than the damage that a weapon could feasibly inflict?  For example, a dagger in the hands of someone with a 10 STR can only inflict 4 points of damage max. What if the opponent's DR is 4? What if it's not a critical hit? It doesn't make sense that my opponent would allow himself to be worn down (lose VP) by me poking a dagger at him if I can't even get through his armor and do real damage (WP). Of course, this is was a question I posed when it was announced SWRPG was using the same kind of system. I didn't get an official answer, but somebody argued with me that if my opponent was letting the armor take the blows, he was therefore "helpless" and opened himself up for a coup de grace (then again, the same guy argued that Undead under the WP/VP system would only have VP and zombies would be bobbing and weaving and dodging my blows until they inexplicably collapsed - once all their VP were gone).  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Ranger REG - are you saying that they've changed it so DR now protects VP too in SWRPG, or in UA using WP/VP in conjunction with armor providing DR?</blockquote>

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