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Originally Posted by Atgxtg
I'm sure. I ran a LOT of Stormbinrger during my RQ2 days. In RQ, most 8 point hits got lessened through armor so that they didn't drop a foe. Such hits to the limbs, weren't going to be lethal, either. In SB, a 8 point
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I saw quite a few 8 point hits drop people. All you needed was a torso hit for that to take down an average character; after all, you were usually talking 3-4 point hit locations in the case of anyone but the buff, and it wasn't hard to have 3-5 points of armor.
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hit, even after armor, usually resulted in a Major wound, taking the foe out of the fight. Plus SB had twice the crtical chance that RQ did. Plus, even if you survived a major wound, there were usually permanent effects that tended to make you easy to kill later. In Rq you didn't have to wroyy about your STR or DEX dropping below the point where you could wield your weapon effectively, or that a loss of CON could lower your hit points or result in a delayed fatality.
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No, but you did have to deal with the potential for limb loss, which could be in practice as severe, or by the RQ3 period, blood loss.
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SB was probably the deadliest version of BRP with the exception of the Morrow Project (revised edition).
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Barring the demon equipment, I'm really just not seeing the huge difference here (well, that and the fact SB armor availability tended more toward the low end more frequently).