Editing Mano a Mano:Character Creation (section)

==Equipment and Natural Defenses==

Natural weapons and armor do not have mass or heft.
(These natural defenses are included in the character's mass.)
The power of a natural weapon is the character's total strength plus the weapon's ''leverage'' if it has the leverage feature.
The attack modifier of a natural weapon is the character's total agility, plus total natural weapon ability, plus the weapon's ''offense'' if it has the offense feature.
The defense of a natural weapon is 10 plus the character's total agility plus total natural weapons ability.
Natural armor does not need power, attack modifiers or defense.
(See [[Mano a Mano:Abilities#Combat Abilities|Game Design/Abilities/Combat Abilities]].)

The character usually begins with the basic equipment required by his occupation. The game may give the character additional equipment or money to buy equipment. A character's modifiers when using an item are listed in the equipment section of the character sheet. These are determined by comparing the character's modifiers to the item's modifiers, and may be different from the values listed on the equipment list for that item. (See [[Mano a Mano:Equipment|Game Design/Equipment]] and [[Mano a Mano:Inventory Management|Character Development/Inventory Management]].)

;Grapple Attack: A character's grapple attack is his grapple ability, plus his agility, plus his strength. For example, if a character's grapple ability is 1, his strength is 1, and his agility is 1, then his grapple attack is 3 (1 + 1 + 1 = 3.)

;Grapple Defense: A character's grapple defense is his grapple attack plus 10.

;Melee Defense: Melee defense is the best defense of the weapons the character is currently using. This is the difficulty of successfully striking or grappling this character.

;Missile Defense: Missile defense is 10 plus the character's agility. This is the difficulty of successfully shooting the character or hitting the character with a thrown weapon.

;Best Absorption: Record the highest absorption of any armor the character is currently wearing here. This is the amount of attack power which will be absorbed by an attack which does not specifically try to avoid that armor. 

;Total Cover: Add up the cover of all the armor the character is wearing and subtract overlapping areas. If the total is 10 or more, or if any of the armor the character is wearing has ''complete'' cover, then the total cover is ''complete''. This is the difficulty  modifier for attacks that try to hit the character in an unarmored area.  

The best absorption can be the total absorption of overlapping armor, and subtracting overlapping areas avoids counting the same covered area twice. For example consider a character wearing a bulletproof ''ballistic vest'' (3 cover, 3 absorption) with a ''rifle plate'' (an optional solid insert which adds extra protection for the heart) with 1 cover and 5 absorption. This character's best absorption will be found where the area covered by the rifle plate (5 absorption) is also backed by the ballistic vest (3 absorption). This absorption is 8 (5 + 3 = 8). The overlapping area is the area covered by the rifle plate (1 cover) which is also completely covered by the ballistic vest, so the total cover is 3 (3 + 1 - 1.) (See [[Mano a Mano:Damage#Armor|Action/Damage/Armor]].)

;Stun and Damage: New characters have no stun or damage.

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