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New rule for punching hard objects, such as plate armor, without gauntlets:

New Rule wrote:If your MoS exceeds your character's Stamina, take the difference as a wound level to your hand.

It's almost a reflex to shield-punch your opponent in the face when you get tied up with him. As a sword & shield club, we messed around with longswords on Thursday.

Yes, I got tied up with my opponent.
Yes, I punched him in the head (read: in the helm).
Yes, I was wearing just a leather glove (read: the one that works okay for shield padding).
No, there's no fracture in my thumb according to x-ray.
But it feels like there is.

Ouch!

Thumb wounds are nasty. Some years ago I was in a simulated 1 against 4 situation where some opponents were unarmed, one had a (rubber) knife and one wielded wooden club. I was unarmed and alone.

Our instructor had just said that we should up the tempo and the whole scenario went pretty fast and well. Only when I managed to disengage my opponents I noticed that the club must have hit me in the thumb as it hurt like h*ll.

Couple of days later I went to doctor and it didn't have any fractures, either (according to X-ray) but it was sore for a pretty long time.

About that rule. Why do you compare MoS against the Stamina? But yes, hitting a hard object should possibly hurt the hitter as well.

Yeah, thumb injuries are nasty. I've had a break in that very thumb a decade or so ago and it felt only marginally worse. Sounds like we should found an "X-ray says I'm fine" club.

Marras wrote:Why do you compare MoS against the Stamina?

It is the catch-all attribute for physical ruggedness and it's subtracted from pretty much all the other types of injuries as well.

True, we should do that

OK, if Stamina is that kind of attribute then it makes sense.