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shotguns kill in CoC!
Ross, I hate to get off topic here, but in CoC an average character has 10 hp (but it only takes 7 to knock him out) and a shotgun does an average of 14 points (4d6) of damage at close range!Originally posted by RIsaacs
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...In Call of Cthulhu you can suvive a shotgun blast...
Yes a character *can* survive a shotgun blast, but he probably will not.
BTW: Nice game I can't wait for LotR (where HTH combat will be a much bigger deal...)
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...and where Boromir got turned into a pincushion before he finally died.Originally posted by MightyCthulhu
Ross, I hate to get off topic here, but in CoC an average character has 10 hp (but it only takes 7 to knock him out) and a shotgun does an average of 14 points (4d6) of damage at close range!
Yes a character *can* survive a shotgun blast, but he probably will not.
BTW: Nice game I can't wait for LotR (where HTH combat will be a much bigger deal...)
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I got into a long discussion with someone at work about this very topic. My point was that when a character is killed in 1 shot in LotR it is because of either...Originally posted by Erik Filean
...and where Boromir got turned into a pincushion before he finally died.
1) the character is a Mook (Orc/unimportant character) which the adventure games models in an effective way by giving them 1 hp..
2) the character is slain by a VERY nasty adversary such as theoden by the witch king.
3) the death is dramatically appropriate such as Sauraman by Worm-tongue
I don't recall any other evidence of characters being quickly dispatched in the books.
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