One-shot KOs of pedestrians, Humanly impossible without augs/magic? Options Track this topic Email this topic Print this topic Download this topic Subscribe to this forum Display Modes Outline Switch to: Standard Switch to: Linear+

[Azralon]

Steven Siegal would be spinning in his futuristic 2070 grave. Which would be bad, unless Ares mounted him as a rotating museum display or something.

Feel free to correct my memory on the SR4 game rules, but it looks like a non-augmented, non-magical maximized human can't easily drop pedestrians in one punch anymore. Well, on average, anyway: it's not impossible, just improbable.

So your maximum human Agility is 6, and your maximum Unarmed Combat skill is 6. Let's say you buy Exceptional Attribute and Aptitude appropriately for 7 & 7. Then you buy some sort of Unarmed Combat specialization, and you're throwing 7 (Agility) + 9 (Skill) = 16 dice. Your strength is 6, of course, bringing your base damage to 3.

So on average you'll be making 5.33 hits on your Unarmed roll. Assuming your target has a 3 Reaction, that'll likely negate 1 net hit. So the target has 7 DV incoming. That won't even drop Aunt May.

Let's make it a called shot to the head, then, for a -4 pool penalty and +4 DV. That means you're rolling 12 dice, getting an average of 4 hits. Your target's average Reaction drops that to 3 hits, giving you a net DV offering of 3+3+4=10. Unfortunately your average human also has a 3 Body, which means on average 1 hit and therefore 9 boxes of Stun taken. This is one shy of the average human's 10 Stun capacity. He's still awake enough to cry (gurgle) for help.

Extending the Marvel comic book references, this means that Captain America will likely need two hits to lay out your average Joe (unless he spends Edge).