Thinking about NPC damage

[Adm.Lee]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Don't forget that NPCs suffer double damage from head wounds.

Nope, I didn't forget that one!

I'll admit, the rules are a bit clunky in places, but it doesn't take all that much combat before players start to realise that body armour and helmets are a MUST and damn the action hero image with nothing more than a torn shirt and red bandanna for "protection".

Back when I ran Merc, one of my PCs, a South African big-game hunter in his day-job, didn't buy a helmet. "Cape buffalo don't shoot back!" The other players knew better, and teased him mercilessly as he lay on his back and bled. "These aren't Cape buffalo!"