means<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nHere’s the thing: in FATE, damage to the stress bar of a character is temporary stuff: it goes away with a few seconds’ rest at the end of the fight. Ditto Minor Consequences. Moderate Consequences take maybe a good night’s rest to shake off. Serious consequences take a fair bit longer.<\/p>\n
On a normal guy, then, stress bar damage and minor consequences are things like little cuts, scrapes, bruises… stuff like that. Moderate might be a wrenched shoulder or a light weapon graze that draws blood. Serious is a solid hit. Blood everywhere, or a totally broken limb.<\/p>\n
On Tim’s<\/em> guy, quite simply, damage to his stress bar is described in play as something roughly similar to a normal guy’s Serious hit. That’s where damage-of-note STARTS<\/em> with him — anything less is too inconsequential to mention. \u00a0From that starting point, we then ramp to the point where his “Takes awhile to shake off” injuries are things like “I chopped off my arm to escape” — because on this guy, that’s not a permanent problem.<\/p>\nPut more succintly: a stress-hit on a normal guy is a bruise; on Tim’s guy, I blow a hole through his leg. Increase from those starting points in parallel.<\/p>\n
That’s it. With that tweak, we get what we’re looking for: a guy who shakes off in minutes what it would take other people months to heal from, which was the whole point.<\/p>\n
And when he invokes that “practically immortal” aspect to give himself a bonus? That means I<\/em> know that he’s solving the problem by (mis)using his body in some particularly<\/em> damaging way.<\/p>\nOuch. Should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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