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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 893018" data-attributes="member: 1194">Now that the possibility of combat is passed, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Catulle - could you do me a favor (if/when you get a chance) and describe how a likely combat scene would have occured then between Max and Nik?Initiative would have been rolled, right?Then someone attacks first - if Nik, he'd use the shotgun (Dex+Firearms, any successes at Difficulty 6 (average of 4 or 5) are added to the 8 damage from the shotgun, and can be soaked by Max's Stamina+Fortitude (he has 2 Stamina+armor?))And that's if Nik only using 1 shot - the shotgun can fire up to 3 a round, and he can handle the penalties fine.I think Max'd be taking a lot of lethal damage, wouldn't he?So he needs to spend blood to not be incapacitated?Max can attack with claws? Would they do STR+1 lethal damage?No, claws are only for Vicissitude and Protean....  so he could punch, or bite, or something.And Nik would probably Dodge in addition to attacking, so he'd have a penalty of 2 dice on the shot(s), 3 dice on the Dodge, right?If Max hits, it's (I'll assume) STR +1 lethal, in addition to his successes on DEX+Brawl maybe, so avg of 3 damage vs. Nik's soak of 2+3 Kevlar armor = 5 --> maybe 1 damage on avg gets thru?This is modified by Nik's Dodging, and/or Max's Celerity of 2 and Potence of 1 adding to the mix.But once Nik touches Max with Thaumaturgy level 2 power, isn't the fight over?Max loses so much blood virtually guaranteed (10 dice, difficulty of 5, avg of 5 successes, Max must spend 5 blood points to fuel his physical powers AND must resist Frenzy now with difficulty of + 5), that he'll Frenzy and be a clumsy fighter.What I don't know is exactly what happens when Nik shoots him again, making Max (for sure) incapacitated if the first blast(s) didn't.Doesn't a vamp pretty much HAVE to heal himself with blood if that happens?And doesn't that take like a full round?And he won't have any blood left then....  so what happens then?Thx for the walk-thru, and hopefully this helps other people with the combat system.</blockquote>

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