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===Injury to Unliving, Homogenous, and Diffuse Targets===
The Wounding Modifiers and Injury rules assume a human, animal, or other ordinary living being. Machines, corporeal undead, swarms, and other unusual entities are much less vulnerable to certain damage types:

''Unliving:'' [[Machine]]s and anyone with [[Injury Tolerance (Unliving)]], such as most corporeal undead, are less vulnerable to [[impaling]] and [[piercing]] damage. This gives [[impaling]] and [[huge piercing]] a wounding modifier of ×1; [[large piercing]], ×1/2; [[piercing]], ×1/3; and [[small piercing]], ×1/5.

''Homogenous:'' Things that lack vulnerable internal parts or mechanisms – such as uniformly solid or hollow objects (e.g., melee weapons, shields, and furniture), unpowered vehicles, trees, and walls – are even less vulnerable! This includes animated statues, blobs, and anything else with [[Injury Tolerance]] (Homogenous). [[Impaling]] and [[huge piercing]] have a wounding modifier of ×1/2; [[large piercing]], ×1/3; [[piercing]], ×1/5; and [[small piercing]], ×1/10.

''Diffuse:'' A target with [[Injury Tolerance (Diffuse)]] is even harder to damage! This includes swarms, air elementals, nets, etc. [[Impaling]] and [[piercing]] attacks (of any size) never do more than 1 HP of injury, regardless of penetrating damage! Other attacks can never do more than 2 HP of injury. Exception: [[Area-effect]], [[cone]], and [[explosion]] attacks cause normal injury.

:''Example:'' Edmund Zhang empties his 9mm machine pistol (2d+2 pi damage) at an approaching zombie. He hits three times. After subtracting the zombie's [[DR]] 1, he scores 8 points of penetrating damage with the first bullet, 7 with the second, and 10 with the third. The zombie has [[Injury Tolerance (Unliving)]], so the usual ×1 wounding modifier for piercing damage drops to ×1/3. Rounding down, the three bullets inflict 2 HP, 2 HP, and 3 HP of injury. The zombie had 24 HP, so it has 17 HP left. Undaunted, it shambles forward. Edmund should have brought an axe or a flamethrower!