Howdy. A couple of friends and I took the game for a spin this afternoon and ran into an issue with the combat. One of our hunters rolled a 10 against a normal human character which resulted in zero damage. I understand that there would be a narrative consequence for the success beyond simply "Hit Point" damage, but the only intention of the player in this scenario was to kill his intended target. We didn't find an obvious compromise in the rules for this discrepancy. Do you have advice for how to handle this type of roll in the future?
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Hi! Thanks a lot for the feedback.
In order to give you a better answer I would need more info about the situation, but it sounds mechanically correct to me. If the total result (after adding bonuses) was a 10 and you say there was no damage dealt, I assume that you considered that human a level 0 character, hence the target number to perform an attack on them will be 10. Matching that number means there was no damage, so the target of the attack was able to evade it.
Probably you think it's a discrepancy cause you are considering the 10 a success during this attack. When you match the target number during an attack, you are not succeeding, but failing without giving the opponent the option to counterattack, so that round of the combat had no physical harm for any of the two.
I hope that helps. Let me know if you need further clarifications.