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== Resistance Checks ==
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|- style="background: black; color: yellow;"
!Slam?!!Stun?!!Kill?
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|Grand Slam||KO||Mortal
|- style="background: LightGreen"
|1 area||Stunned||Threat
|- style="background: yellow"
|Stagger||No Effect||No Effect
|- style="background: red"
|No Effect||No Effect||No Effect
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Characters who are hit by attacks scoring "Stun", "Slam", or "Kill" results may be required to make an Endurance FEAT or suffer side effects from the attack. Characters ''do not'' need to make a resistance FEAT if the damage rank of the attack (before doubling) does not ''at least equal'' any protection power the character has. Additionally, if the attack is unarmed or a blunt weapon, the attacker must have Strength at least equal to the target's Endurance (or the Martial Arts A talent) to require a Stun? or Slam? check.

Resistance checks are Endurance FEATs normally against Typical challenge. Certain powers (e.g. stungun attacks) may also force a resistance check opposed by the power rank.

=== Resistance FEAT Results ===
* '''No Effect''' means specifically no ''additional'' effect &mdash; the character still takes Health damage from the attack.
* A '''stagger''' result means the character is no longer adjacent to the attacker, and may be knocked off an already precarious position, but otherwise suffers no ill effect.
* A  result of '''1 area''' means the character has been knocked back 1 area; they cannot dodge next round and are -2 to any FEAT that round.
* A '''Grand Slam''' result means the character has been knocked back as many areas as if thrown by a Strength equal to the damage rank (before doubling); they cannot dodge next round and are -2 to any FEAT that round.
* A '''Stunned''' result means the character cannot act at all next round (and cannot dodge).
* A '''KO''' result means the target is stunned (as above) for 2-11 (1d10+1) rounds.
* A '''Mortal''' result means the character is [[#Dying|dying]]! 
* A '''Threat''' result is identical to a Mortal result ''if'' the attack that forced the Kill? FEAT was inflicted by either a firearm or a sharpened weapon or projectile. Otherwise, it is the same as "No Effect".