Rules Q & A's

Yeah that would be pretty brutal.

Though bear in mind, this isn't the Walking Dead, so these children Infected would be unlikely to still be in the school, and in large numbers. Five years on (if that's when you're setting it), most of them would have died and moved on, looking for food. However, they could still be living there, surviving there

I don't give any penalties to hit something of a child's size, unless they're at a distance. Even then, unless they're really small, or obscured by cover, they'd be basically as easy to hit as anyone else (despite my usual rules for targeting different Size things... it just doesn't seem to make sense in this case unless they're obscured!).

Killing kids though... nasty... that would certainly require Morality checks!

Ok got a question to do with defence and multiple actions.

Player A has declared that he is going to attack and infected.

Initiative order is as follows player A then infected

Player A attacks infected 1 (does the infected receive a penalty to defence as it intends on attacking, if so what penalty)

Then

Infected 1 attacks player A (I presume because the infected had to defend it was forced to take multiple actions, so because this would be player A's second action is there a penalty in his defensive roll?)
Infected

The +1 die is at the level of Ranged: Firearms, when you're shooting handguns. If you had a repeating crossbow (whatever that is), you would roll using Ranged: Simple.
So for a burst from a handgun you'd roll Dex/Firearms/Firearms with -2 successes.

And btw, Garage you asked how many bullets should it actually be? I'd say 3. It's a short burst. I like to keep it loose, but three is basically what people would fire for this sort of burst.



Okay so this all comes down to Declaring your actions.
If Player A elects to do a single action and only shoot the Infected, he'd better hope he kills it. If he just wounds it and it doesn't fall over, get staggered or whatever, then it is going to attack him and he won't be able to Dodge, because he didn't do a multi action. However, if the Infected doesn't want to get shot, it would have to abort its action to a Dodge, losing its attack that round and only getting to Dodge (again, unless it elected to Dodge AND attack that round, getting a penalty on both actions).

Player A could elect to do a multi-action, Shoot, then Dodge. In this case he would suffer a penalty of -2 to the shooting roll, then -3 to the Dodging roll.

Same with Infected 1, if it elected to Dodge then Claw, it would get -2, then -3.



Very close nails!
I will need to work on a way to make this clearer in the book.

The Con check is only made if you're getting attacked by something which has an HR of 0 or 1.
In this case of getting stabbed, it's HR 2, so they don't get a Con Absorb.

You'll notice in the stat of the leather jacket it Absorbs at +3/+3 - so you roll 2 dice at that level.
(However, I quite like your modification of it. I think I'll give that some thought).

So in your example above Bob would have only gotten an 11/8 = 1 success, so he ends up taking 5 damage and is brutally injured.

The other thing was carryover - our rule is (at present - bear in mind it could change) that carryover is your total successes to strike -1.
Because if you got 1 success to Strike, that doesn't give you carryover. It's just the barest of successes. You roll damage with no modifier.
If you got 2 successes to Strike you get +1/+0.
3 successes = +1/+1
4 successes = +2/+1

Does that make sense?

Again, it could be changed to make it simpler

The thing was like a ninja!!! It crept under the table and sat on the chair next to me....

I was taping my hand in excitement and bam!! It struck!!

I think I needed clean underwear afterwards!!!

Question about the infected.

I know they are intelligent enough to use simple items etc. so I take it they are sensitive to light, sound and most smell.

Can they smell non infected people much like the walkers on the walking dead can smell a living person?

Hi nails, they can absolutely! They have heightened perceptions of such things, as the animal is much more alert, and their very survival depends on them being able to "sniff out" prey... so they can smell blood, sweat, strong smells much more sharply than most people, who are almost deaf to smells.

Which also brings up some interesting points about those who are immune, or those who have been infected but have survived, and so might smell a bit like an Infected! This would be an Advantage in the final book (a backer idea, and a cool one).

Forgive me if I've missed this somewhere as I tend to just skim things...

Is there a Critical Fail rule?


Ignore me, I've just found the bungle rule.