Ballistic Shrapnel
The critical table for everything that arrives in more than one piece — grenades and explosives, shotguns at spread range, and automatic fire. One bullet makes one hole and this table does not describe it: here the target is found by several things at once. Sized against the RMU core Puncture table (Core Law p. 233), in that table's own location-band layout, with Weapon Law: Firearms 6.5 (book p. 123) as the historical starting point. Roll d100 (not open-ended) and cross-index with the critical's severity.
Reading a result: areas and coverage
The mechanic that makes this table different. The location column names one to three areas — Head, Chest, Abdomen, Legs, Arms — and the breadth grows with the roll: one area up to roll 25, two to 85, three from 86 up. The pattern strikes every named area. A result then reads in three parts, and nothing is ever looked up on another table:
The tokens before the first clause are the base — hits and stun that apply always, armour or no armour; the blast reaches the target either way. On a single-area row the covered: clause applies where the target's armour covers the area and the bare: clause where it does not. On a multi-area row each named area carries its own pair — covered effects, a slash, bare effects. Read the side the armour dictates, area by area, and add everything you read. Covered sides are the energy dumped through the plate — extra hits, and each armour piece struck makes one breakage check even when it covers two named areas. Bare sides are fragments in flesh — the bleeding and the lasting injury land there.
Armour also decides survival. Where a bare side carries ☠ dying, the wound in that area is the one that kills — the foe is dying unless armour covers that area, and where two areas carry it, every one must be covered. A Foe is dying/dead stated at the head of the cell applies regardless: at that severity the pattern itself is unsurvivable, and no vest changes it.
A Chest + Arms pattern against a torso vest is base, plus the chest's covered side, plus the arms' bare side — one pass. This is where a torso-only vest earns its reputation: against a single bullet it either catches it or it does not, but most of a body is not torso, and the wide rolls of this table go looking for the rest of it. Coverage matters far more here than protection value does.
| Roll | A | B | C | D | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head1 | AOne of them clips the top of foe’s ear on its way past. He will find the notch tomorrow.+1Hcovered: | BThe pattern goes wide and something small skips off his scalp. A line of heat and nothing else.+1Hcovered: bare: +3H | CGrit and one hard piece rake across the brow. Foe blinks it out and keeps going.+2Hcovered: bare: +4H | DSomething strikes the skull flat and hard. Foe’s head rings like a struck pot and the world tilts.+1H1[-50]covered: bare: +4H | ESeveral find the side of his face at once. None of them deep, all of them stinging, and whatever skin they find, they open.+1H1[-25]covered: bare: +3H, 1 |
| Chest2 - 3 | AThe pattern arrives a foot wide of him and peppers the wall instead.+1Hcovered: bare: +2H | BTwo or three strike his coat and stop in the layers. Bruises the shape of coins.+2Hcovered: bare: +4H | COne catches him over the sternum and knocks the wind clean out. He is a moment finding his next breath.+1H1[-50]covered: bare: +4H | DA tight group across the chest. Nothing gets through, and the whole front of him is one flat ache.+1H1[-50]covered: bare: +3H | EA shallow furrow across the ribs where the burst grazed him. On cloth and skin it weeps and keeps weeping; on armour it is one more dent.+2Hcovered: +5H, bare: +4H, 1 |
| Abdomen4 - 5 | AThe spread of them tears his coat open across the belly and takes nothing with it.+1Hcovered: bare: +3H | BOne strikes the belt buckle square. Foe folds around the blow more from surprise than harm.+2H1[-50]covered: bare: +4H | CTwo land in the soft part above the hip. Where he is bare they are shallow, ragged, and messier than they have any right to be.+1Hcovered: bare: +3H, 1 | DA solid piece stops against the wing of the pelvis. The bone holds and everything around it protests.+4Hcovered: +4H, bare: +10H | EThe pattern rakes the flank from hip to navel. Bare, it is a row of small leaking holes; caught, it is a stripe of bruise deep enough to keep.+2Hcovered: +10H, bare: +4H, 1 |
| Leg6 - 10 | ASomething heavy strikes the thigh flat. The leg goes briefly numb from hip to knee.+2H1[-50]covered: bare: +4H | BTwo catch him low on the calf. If nothing covers it, the boot is going to need emptying.+1Hcovered: bare: +3H, 1 | CA close group across the thigh. Foe’s stride shortens and his weight shifts off it without asking him.+2H1[-50]covered: bare: +6H | DThe pattern walks up the leg from knee to hip. Whatever it finds uncovered, some of them stay in.+2H1[-50]covered: bare: +6H, 2 | ESeveral strike the back of the thigh together, and bare muscle there ends up more hole than muscle.+2H1[-75]covered: bare: +8H, 2 |
| Arm11 - 15 | AA handful rattle off the outside of his arm. Bruises in a neat line and nothing broken.+2Hcovered: bare: +6H | BOne strikes the point of the elbow hard enough to numb the arm to the fingertips; the skin over it splits where it shows.+2H1[-50]covered: bare: +8H, 1 | CTwo arrive in the bicep. In flesh they lodge and stay; on armour they hammer the arm half-dead.+2Hcovered: +7H, bare: +6H, 2 | DThe group crosses the forearm at an angle. Unarmoured, it goes in one side and part-way out the other.+4H1[-50]covered: +7H, bare: +11H, 2 | ESeveral find the inside of the upper arm, where everything important runs close to the surface.+2H1[-75]covered: bare: +8H, 2, -5 |
| Head16 - 20 | AOne clips the jaw and the rest go past his ear close enough to feel. Foe loses a second to the noise alone.+2H1[-50]covered: (-25)bare: +6H | BGrit and metal across the forehead. A bare scalp being what it is, he is instantly wearing most of what it sheds.+2H1[-50]covered: (-25)bare: +4H, 1 | CSeveral take him across the cheek and jaw. Whatever they catch uncovered, he will be picking pieces out of for a week.+2H1[-50]covered: (-25)bare: +8H, 1 | DA hard piece skips off the skull above the ear. The bone holds; the inside of it sloshes.+3H1[-50]covered: (-25)bare: +9H | EThe pattern crosses his face. With nothing in the way, one takes an eyebrow, and the eye beneath it fills before he can blink.+2H1[-75]covered: (-25)bare: +8H, 2 |
| Chest21 - 25 | AA solid strike over the ribs stops everything for a moment — his breath, his aim, and whatever he was about to say.+3H1[-50]covered: (-25)bare: +9H | BTwo arrive over the ribs. Bare, they go into the chest wall and stay; caught, they leave coin bruises and a creak.+2Hcovered: +2H, 10, (-25)bare: +6H, 2 | CThe group takes him across the front from collarbone to short ribs — a line of strikes, and holes wherever it found only shirt.+4H1[-50]covered: 10, (-25)bare: +11H, 2 | DSeveral land together over the lung. Through cloth they break into the chest wall, and every breath starts sounding like it is taken through a rag.+4H1[-75]covered: +3H, 10, (-25)bare: +11H, 3, -5 | EThe whole burst arrives on the chest at once. Skin takes it as a field of small wounds that all bleed at their own pace; a vest takes it as one long hammering.+7H1[-50]covered: 20, (-25)bare: +20H, 4, -5 |
| Abdomen + Legs26 - 35 | AThe pattern lands low, belt to thigh in one rattle. Armour drums it off; bare skin takes a nick at every second step of it.+15HAbdomen: +4H, (-25) / 1Legs: +2H, (-25) / 1 | BOne hard strike in the gut folds him for a breath while the rest patter down his thigh. Small trouble everywhere it finds skin.+15H1[-50]Abdomen: 10, (-25) / 1Legs: (-25) / 1 | CThe middle of the burst takes the belly and the tail of it the leg. Where he is open, the gut starts leaking in earnest.+10H1[-50]Abdomen: +4H, 10, (-25) / 3Legs: +2H, (-25) / 1 | DSeveral land around the navel and down the near leg. Whatever is uncovered keeps a piece of it, none of them anywhere good.+15H1[-75]Abdomen: 10, (-25) / 1, -5Legs: (-25) / 1, -5 | EThe group crosses his middle and thigh in one sweep. Armour turns it into a beating; bare, it opens a row of small ragged holes with the pieces still sitting in them.+32H1[-75]Abdomen: 20, (-25) / 3, -5Legs: (-25) / 1, -5 |
| Legs + Abdomen36 - 45 | ATwo in the thigh and one against the hip. Where they find skin they stay in it, small and deep and slow to close; foe walks on that leg, but running is a different question.+12HLegs: +5H, (-25) / 1Abdomen: +3H, (-25) / 1 | BA wide spread across the front of the leg and up over the hip. Caught, it hammers muscle flat; bare, it is ragged little wounds that will not close on their own.+15HLegs: +13H, (-25) / 1Abdomen: +9H, (-25) / 1 | CSeveral go in along the thigh and low in the gut where nothing stops them. One of them lies alongside the vein and makes itself known.+15H1[-75]Legs: (-25) / 2, -5Abdomen: 10, (-25) / 2, -5 | DThe pattern takes the shin and climbs to the hip. Unarmoured, bone chips travel with the metal; armoured, the leg is one long bruise with a limp in it.+20H1[-75]Legs: +6H, (-25) / 4, -5Abdomen: +4H, 20, (-25) / 2, -5 | EThe group takes the leg from ankle to hip and finishes in the gut. However much of it is covered the weight still arrives — and everything left bare keeps a fragment and leaks around it.+32H2[-50]Legs: (-25) / 4, -5Abdomen: 20, (-25) / 2, -5 |
| Arms + Chest46 - 55 | AThree along the forearm and one against the ribs. Bare, they lodge where they land and weep steadily; the hand still works, and reports everything twice.+12H1[-50]Arms: (-25) / 2Chest: 10, (-25) / 2 | BThe pattern rakes the inside of the arm from elbow to wrist and spends its last against the chest. Bare, most of what runs there opens.+15H1[-75]Arms: +2H, (-25) / 4Chest: +2H, 10, (-25) / 2 | CSeveral strike the upper arm and carry on to the shoulder. In armour the limb is beaten numb; out of it, the wounds are the kind that drip a trail.+15H1[-50]Arms: +15H, (-25) / 2Chest: +9H, 10, (-25) / 2 | DA tight group into the elbow and onward to the chest. What armour catches, it catches as one enormous blow; what it does not fills joint and rib with things that were never meant to be inside them.+15H1[-75]Arms: +21H, (-25) / 2, -5Chest: +13H, 20, (-25) / 2, -5 | EThe spread crosses the arm and carries on into his side. The weight of it alone rearranges his stance; open skin makes it worse.+29H1[-75]Arms: (-25) / 2, -5Chest: 20, (-25) / 2, -5 |
| Arms + Head56 - 65 | ATwo into the shoulder meat and one past the ear close enough to touch. The arm lifts, slowly, and complains the whole way up.+10H1[-50]Arms: +11H, (-25) / 1Head: +7H, (-25) / 1 | BA close group across the shoulder, the last of it clipping the jaw. None of them alone would matter; together they end his reach on that side.+20H1[-50]Arms: +2H, (-25) / 3Head: +2H, (-25) / 1 | CSeveral cross the shoulder and one skips up along the scalp. Whatever found skin is bleeding, and the arm has opinions about being raised.+20H2[-75]Arms: +1H, (-25) / 3, -5Head: +1H, (-25) / 1, -5 | DThe pattern takes the shoulder from three directions and rings the side of his head on the way. Uncovered, the shoulder keeps two of them and opens further every time he moves it.+23H2[-75]Arms: +7H, (-25) / 3, -5Head: +5H, (-25) / 1, -5 | EThe group takes him at the armpit and jaw together — everything crowded, none of it padded by more than what he wore. Where nothing stopped them they are in him to stay, and the bleeding starts before he has finished turning.+44H2[-75]Arms: +10H, (-25) / 5, -5Head: +6H, (-25) / 3, -5 |
| Abdomen + Chest + Legs66 | AA hard group low across hip, ribs and belly. On plate it is a flat, enormous slap; on skin it grinds small pieces into the joint.+20H1[-75]Abdomen: +17H, 30, (-25) / 2, -10Chest: +10H, 10, (-25) / 1, -5Legs: +6H, (-25) / 1 | BThe pattern arrives squarely in the groin and spreads up his front and down both thighs. There is nothing to add and no one at the table will want it added.+37H2[-75]Abdomen: +6H, 30, (-25) / 5, -10Chest: +4H, 20, (-25) / 2, -5Legs: +2H, (-25) / 2 | CSeveral shatter the pelvis, the rest climb his front and rake both thighs. Foe stops being a standing creature in the space of one breath.+42H2[-75]Abdomen: +9H, 50, (-25) / 5, -15Chest: +6H, 30, (-25) / 2, -10Legs: +3H, (-25) / 2, -5 | DThe whole group finds his middle and legs at once, and nothing in there is where it should be. He has minutes, and he will spend them on the ground. Foe is dying. +48H4[-75]Abdomen: +6H, 50, (-25) / 8, -45Chest: +4H, 50, (-25) / 4, -35Legs: +2H, (-25) / 3, -10 | EIt takes him low and travels upward through everything that keeps him working. He is still upright, and that is the last thing about him that is. Foe is dying. +35H5[-75]Abdomen: +12H, 30, (-25) / 8, -35Chest: +8H, 30, (-25) / 4, -30Legs: +4H, (-25) / 3, -10 |
| Legs + Abdomen67 - 75 | AA group into the calf and a stray above the belt. Deep enough to matter wherever it is not caught: the pieces stay in, the wounds stay open, and foe’s push-off on that side is gone.+15H1[-50]Legs: +9H, (-25) / 4Abdomen: +5H, 10, (-25) / 2 | BSeveral strike the lower leg and one rides up over the hip. Bare, the shin bleeds around a deep bone bruise that will outlast the month.+23H1[-75]Legs: +1H, (-25) / 2Abdomen: +1H, 10, (-25) / 2 | CThe pattern crosses the knee and finishes against the hip. The joint keeps several of them if nothing is in the way, none where they can be reached.+20H2[-50]Legs: +6H, (-25) / 2, -5Abdomen: +4H, 20, (-25) / 2, -5 | DA tight group into the thigh and gut. What armour does not take, flesh keeps — and complains about at every step.+20H2[-75]Legs: (-25) / 2, -5Abdomen: 20, (-25) / 2, -5 | ESeveral go deep into the thigh and low into the belly, and one finds the artery if skin is all there is. Either way the leg folds and foe goes down.+42H2[-75]Legs: +5H, (-25) / 5, -10Abdomen: +3H, 30, (-25) / 3, -10 |
| Chest + Arms76 - 80 | AA close group over the ribs, the edge of it catching the forearm. Bare, two break through, and breathing becomes a thing he has to decide to do.+23H1[-75]Chest: 20, (-25) / 3Arms: (-25) / 1 | BThe pattern crosses the chest below the collarbone and down the near arm. Caught, it is a hammering that leaves him ringing; open, several stop against the shoulder blade from the inside.+20H2[-75]Chest: +15H, 30, (-25) / 3, -5Arms: +9H, (-25) / 1, -5 | CSeveral arrive over the lung and along the forearm together. If the vest takes them, the vest takes them hard; if not, the sound of him changes.+20H2[-75]Chest: +12H, 20, (-25) / 4, -5Arms: +8H, (-25) / 2, -5 | DThe group crosses both lungs and the arm raised in front of them. Where he is open, foe is drowning standing up, in open air.+25H3[-75]Chest: +1H, 20, (-25) / 6, -20Arms: +1H, (-25) / 4, -10 | ESeveral find the great vessels above the heart, the rest the arm in front of them. Unstopped, the chest fills from the inside and there is no wound anyone could press.+33H2[-75]Chest: +17H, 50, (-25) / 6, -20Arms: +11H, (-25) / 4, -10 |
| Head + Chest81 - 85 | AA group across the jaw and collar. Where it lands on skin he is cut both places; either way he is a moment making himself understood.+15H1[-75]Head: (-25) / 2Chest: 10, (-25) / 2 | BSeveral take the throat beside the windpipe and the top of the chest below it. Every uncovered breath whistles through the new openings.+20H2[-75]Head: +7H, (-25) / 3, -5Chest: +5H, 20, (-25) / 3, -5 | CThe pattern crosses skull and breastbone in one line. A helmet turns it into bells; a bare scalp lifts off over a hand’s width, and the bone beneath holds.+27H2[-75]Head: +17H, (-25) / 3, -5Chest: +11H, 30, (-25) / 3, -5 | DSeveral strike the face and the chest beneath it together. Whatever is not covered — he keeps the skull, and loses most of what was arranged on the front of it.+20H2[-75]Head: +1H, (-25) / 3, -20Chest: +1H, 20, (-25) / 3, -10 | EThe group opens the side of the neck and the chest below it where they show. What comes out comes out in time with his heart.+42H3[-75]Head: +4H, (-25) / 4, -20Chest: +2H, 30, (-25) / 4, -10 |
| Arms + Chest + Head86 - 90 | AA dense group up the forearm, across the chest and past the ear. Bare, the hand curls closed around wounds it will keep a while.+28H1[-75]Arms: +10H, (-50) / 3Chest: +7H, 10, (-50) / 2Head: +4H, (-50) / 1 | BThe pattern takes the hand, climbs the arm and finishes at the collar. He drops what he held — with luck because of the bruise, without it because of the fingers that are gone and the wet that follows them.+25H2[-75]Arms: +7H, (-50) / 4, -5Chest: +5H, 20, (-50) / 3, -5Head: +3H, (-50) / 2, -5 | CSeveral cross him wrist to jaw in one line. Armour turns them into one long blow; skin lets them hollow out what they touch.+25H2[-75]Arms: +18H, (-50) / 3, -10Chest: +11H, 30, (-50) / 2, -10Head: +7H, (-50) / 1, -10 | DThe group destroys the elbow and carries on into side and cheek. Bare, the joint fills with metal that is not coming back out; the arm below it is luggage for the rest of the fight.+42H3[-75]Arms: +9H, (-50) / 3, -10Chest: +6H, 30, (-50) / 2, -10Head: +3H, (-50) / 1, -10 | ESeveral take him at the collarbone — the bone, the artery beneath it and the top of the lung below that — and the rest of the pattern is still arriving. Foe is dying. +30H4[-75]Arms: +15H, (-50) / 7, -20Chest: +9H, 30, (-50) / 5, -25Head: +6H, (-50) / 3, -15 |
| Legs + Abdomen + Arms91 - 95 | AA tight group into the ankle, the rest walking up thigh and hip to the wrist. What armour catches leaves dents; what it does not leaves him limping on wounds.+20H2[-75]Legs: +20H, (-50) / 3, -5Abdomen: +12H, 20, (-50) / 2, -5Arms: +7H, (-50) / 1, -5 | BSeveral take the knee together and the rest find belly and forearm. The leg holds, barely, and under protest.+25H2[-75]Legs: +18H, (-50) / 5, -5Abdomen: +11H, 30, (-50) / 3, -5Arms: +7H, (-50) / 1, -5 | CThe pattern opens the thigh along its whole length and carries into gut and arm. The sheer mass of it lands like a vehicle.+50H3[-75]Legs: +4H, (-50) / 5, -15Abdomen: +3H, 50, (-50) / 3, -10Arms: +2H, (-50) / 1, -5 | DSeveral find the artery deep in the thigh at once, and the rest of the pattern climbs his middle. There is no pressure point for this and nowhere to put a tourniquet. He is unconscious in the pool before he understands he is in it. Foe is dying. +35H4[-75]Legs: +12H, (-50) / 8, -35Abdomen: +8H, 30, (-50) / 5, -30Arms: +4H, (-50) / 2, -10 | EThe group takes the leg at the hip and everything that runs past it, then carries on into his middle and the arm across it. Foe is dying. +30H5[-75]Legs: +15H, (-50) / 8, -35Abdomen: +9H, 30, (-50) / 5, -30Arms: +6H, (-50) / 2, -10 |
| Abdomen + Legs + Arms96 - 97 | AA dense group through gut, thigh and forearm. Where it meets armour it beats; where it meets him, it perforates more places than anyone is going to count.+25H2[-75]Abdomen: +18H, 30, (-50) / 5, -10Legs: +11H, (-50) / 3, -5Arms: +7H, (-50) / 1 | BSeveral shatter against the hip and the rest spray thigh and arm. His leg turns outward and takes him sideways with it.+47H3[-75]Abdomen: +6H, 50, (-50) / 5, -15Legs: +4H, (-50) / 3, -10Arms: +2H, (-50) / 1, -5 | CThe heart of the pattern is aimed at the liver, the rest at thigh and arm. If nothing is over his middle, foe goes cold from the inside outward — and is quiet long before he is still.+30H4[-75]Abdomen: +15H, 30, (-50) / 6, -35, dyingLegs: +10H, (-50) / 4, -15Arms: +6H, (-50) / 2, -10 | DSeveral cross the abdomen and one opens the great artery against the spine; the rest go through thigh and wrist. He has under a minute, and none of it is his to use. Foe is dying. +43H4[-75]Abdomen: +9H, 50, (-50) / 8, -45Legs: +6H, (-50) / 5, -20Arms: +3H, (-50) / 2, -10 | EThe group enters low and travels upward through everything between hip and ribs, taking the near arm on the way. He folds around a space where his middle used to be. Foe is dying. +35H5[-75]Abdomen: +12H, 30, (-50) / 8, -45Legs: +8H, (-50) / 5, -20Arms: +4H, (-50) / 2, -10 |
| Chest + Head + Arms98 - 99 | AA dense group breaks against ribs, jaw and forearm at once. Where he is bare the ribs give, and everything over them opens and stays open.+47H3[-75]Chest: +1H, 30, (-75) / 7, -10Head: +1H, (-75) / 3, -5Arms: +1H, (-75) / 2 | BThe pass is lined up through heart and temple both, the arm between them only for a moment. Anything less than plate and helmet, and foe looks down, then at you, then at nothing.+30H4[-75]Chest: +14H, 30, (-75) / 7, -30, dyingHead: +8H, (-75) / 3, -25, dyingArms: +5H, (-75) / 2, -5 | CSeveral are aimed through the lung and the vessels beside it, the rest at brow and wrist. With nothing over his chest he drowns inside himself while the group is still finding him.+48H4[-75]Chest: +7H, 50, (-75) / 8, -40, dyingHead: +4H, (-75) / 4, -25Arms: +2H, (-75) / 3, -10 | DThe group takes the heart between them and everything on the way in — collar, jaw, the raised arm. Foe is dead where he stands, and stands a moment longer out of habit. Foe is dead. +53H3[-75]Chest: +3H, 50, (-75) / 7, -45Head: +2H, (-75) / 3, -35Arms: +1H, (-75) / 2, -10 | EThe whole pattern arrives across his upper body at once and leaves very little of it in one piece. He is gone between one beat and the beat that never comes. Foe is dead. +45H4[-75]Chest: +7H, 50, (-75) / 10, -60Head: +5H, (-75) / 5, -45Arms: +3H, (-75) / 3, -15 |
| Head + Chest + Arms100 | ASeveral find the head together, and one is lined up under the jaw. Bare-headed he is breathing and no longer present; helmeted, he is wearing the dent that almost was.+30H4[-75]Head: +15H, (-75) / 4, -35, dyingChest: +10H, 30, (-75) / 3, -20Arms: +6H, (-75) / 2, -5 | BThe pattern crosses the temple. If nothing is over it, he drops straight down and goes on breathing a while out of stubbornness; if something is, he owes its maker a letter.+35H4[-75]Head: +13H, (-75) / 6, -45, dyingChest: +8H, 30, (-75) / 4, -25Arms: +5H, (-75) / 2, -5 | CSeveral open the skull between them and the rest cross collar and arm unnoticed. Whatever foe was ends in the time it takes the sound to reach you. Foe is dead. +48H4[-75]Head: +6H, (-75) / 7, -50Chest: +4H, 50, (-75) / 5, -30Arms: +2H, (-75) / 3, -10 | DThe group takes the base of the skull and the top of the spine with it, the rest stitching chest and arm. Foe drops like a marionette with the strings cut. Foe is dead. +45H4[-75]Head: +7H, (-75) / 7, -70Chest: +5H, 50, (-75) / 5, -35Arms: +3H, (-75) / 3, -15 | EThe whole pattern arrives at once and there is nothing left above the collar to describe. Anyone standing near him is wearing the rest. Your next action this round takes +25. Foe is dead. +50H5[-75]Head: +4H, (-75) / 8, -70Chest: +3H, 50, (-75) / 6, -35Arms: +2H, (-75) / 4, -15 |
+XH: additional hits · ♦X: bleeding, X hits per round until healed · X✹[-Y]: stunned X rounds at penalty -Y · N×✳: staggered, loses N AP (1 if unnumbered) · -X: injury penalty until healed · ◷X: X fatigue — the wind driven out of a plate-covered torso; it RESTS BACK, unlike an injury · ⇘: knocked prone · the pattern strikes every area the Roll column names; tokens before the first clause apply always · single-area rows: the covered: clause applies where armour covers the area, the bare: clause where it does not · multi-area rows: each named area carries its own pair, covered effects / bare effects — read the side the armour dictates, area by area, and add everything read (— : nothing beyond the base) · ☠ dying on a bare side: the foe is dying unless armour covers that area — every such area, where more than one carries it · ⚒(-X): each armour piece struck makes one breakage check, at -X if given (Wearing Armor Down, on Combat) — one check per piece even when it covers two named areas · ☠: dying or dead stated at the head of the cell applies regardless of armour. Attacker bonuses are given in the text.