Mano a Mano:Damage

Stun, Damage and Toughness

Stun

Stun is the short-term effect of pain and injury and can be recovered quickly.

Damage

Damage is the long-term effect of injuries that heal slowly.

Toughness

Toughness is the maximum stun plus damage a character can take without being incapacitated and falling down.

Healthy

Healthy is half of a character's toughness (rounded down.) This is the amount of stun plus damage a character can take without a damage penalty.

Sharpness

Sharpness determines whether the attack power that gets through the target's armor becomes stun or damage. All the power of a sharp weapon becomes damage. Half the power (rounded down) of a blunt weapon becomes damage and the rest becomes stun. For example, 5 power getting through the target's armor absorption would become 2 damage and 3 stun to the target. All the power of a padded weapon becomes stun.

Healing

Characters usually have a chance to recover damage once per week. This requires a success roll against the difficulty 10 plus 1 for every day the character exerted himself (by travelling or fighting for example) during that week, plus 1 for every time the character took damage or stun, and plus 5 for every time the character was incapacitated by damage. (There is no penalty for being incapacitated by a combination of stun and damage.) If the roll is successful, the character recovers half of his damage, rounded up. For example if the character has 5 damage and successfully heals, then he will recover 3 damage, leaving him with only 2 damage after healing.