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| '''''If you were looking for [[Throwing Skill]], see [[Throwing Skill]].'''''
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| You can throw anything you can
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| pick up – that is, anything with a
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| weight of 8×BL or less. If the object
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| you wish to throw is not already in
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| your hands, you must take one or
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| more Ready maneuvers to pick it up.
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| See Lifting and Moving Things (p. 353)
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| for details.
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| Throwing an object during combat
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| – whether as an attack or not –
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| requires an Attack maneuver. You can
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| throw objects that weigh up to 2×BL
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| using one hand; heavier objects
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| require a two-handed throw. Roll
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| against DX-3 to hit a specific target,
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| or against DX to lob something into
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| a general area. Apply the usual
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| modifiers for target size, speed, and
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| distance.
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| Throwing Distance
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| To avoid slowing down the game
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| with math, the GM should allow any
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| throw he deems reasonable . . . but
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| when you need to know the exact dis-
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| tance you can throw an object, use the
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| following procedure:
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| 1. Divide the object’s weight in
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| pounds by your Basic Lift to get the
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| “weight ratio.”
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| 2. Find the weight ratio in the
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| Weight Ratio column of the table
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| below. If it falls between two values,
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| use the higher value.
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| 3. Read across to the Distance
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| Modifier column and find the “dis-
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| tance modifier.”
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| 4. Multiply your ST by the distance
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| modifier to find the distance in yards
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| you can throw the object.
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| Example: You have ST 12, giving a
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| BL of 29 lbs. You need to throw a 120-
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| lb. body over a two-yard pit. Divide
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| weight by BL: 120/29 = 4.1. This falls
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| between 4.0 and 5.0 in the Weight
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| Ratio column, so treat it as 5.0. The
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| associated distance modifier is 0.12.
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| Multiplying by ST, your range is 0.12 ×
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| 12 = 1.4 yards. Oops! The body just hit
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| the bottom of the pit.
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| Damage From Thrown Objects
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| Thrown objects inflict thrust dam-
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| age for your ST (see Damage Table,
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| p. 16), modified for weight as shown
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| on the table below. Damage is usually
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| crushing, but the GM may rule that a
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| sharp object does cutting, piercing, or
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| impaling damage instead. A fragile
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| object (or a thrown character) takes
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| the same amount of damage it inflicts;
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| roll damage separately for the object
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| and the target.
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| Weight Damage
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| Up to BL/8 Thrust, -2 per die
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| Up to BL/4 Thrust, -1 per die
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| Up to BL/2 Thrust
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| Up to BL Thrust, +1 per die
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| Up to 2×BL Thrust
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| Up to 4×BL Thrust, -1/2 per die
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| (round down)
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| Up to 8×BL Thrust, -1 per die
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| Example: You have ST 28, which
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| gives you a BL of 157 lbs. and a thrust
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| damage of 3d-1. You hit a foe with a
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| hurled 50-lb. bag of cement. It is
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| between BL/4 (39 lbs.) and BL/2 (78
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| lbs.). As shown on the table above, it
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| does straight thrust damage, or 3d-1.
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| Weight Distance Weight Distance
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| Ratio Modifier Ratio Modifier
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| 0.05 3.5 2.0 0.30
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| 0.10 2.5 2.5 0.25
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| 0.15 2.0 3.0 0.20
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| 0.20 1.5 4.0 0.15
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| 0.25 1.2 5.0 0.12
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| 0.30 1.1 6.0 0.10
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| 0.40 1.0 7.0 0.09
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| 0.50 0.8 8.0 0.08
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| 0.75 0.7 9.0 0.07
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| 1.00 0.6 10.0 0.06
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| 1.50 0.4 12.0 0.05
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| Catching
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| If someone throws an object at you, you may make an active defense
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| roll to avoid it. However, if he deliberately throws it to you – by suc-
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| cessfully lobbing it into your general area – you can try to catch it. Roll
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| against DX or a suitable Sports skill to make the catch, at -4 if you are
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| not taking a Wait maneuver, but at +1 per two full points by which the
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| thrower made his roll. This counts as a parry with your catching hand.
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| You can also attempt to intercept a thrown object en route to a catch-
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| er. Treat this as a parry against a thrown weapon (see Parrying, p. 376).
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| On a success, you snatch the thrown object out of the air.
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| Throwing Skill and Throwing Art
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| When you throw an object that fits
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| into the palm of your hand – such as a
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| bottle, rock, or grenade – you may roll
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| against [[Throwing skill]] to hit a
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| target or a general area. Furthermore,
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| if you know Throwing at DX+1 level,
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| add +1 to ST before you multiply it by
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| the distance modifier. Add +2 to ST if
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| you know Throwing at DX+2 or better.
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| If you have Throwing Art skill
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| (p. 226), you can use it to throw any-
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| thing. Roll against skill to hit. If you
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| know Throwing Art at DX level, add
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| +1 to ST before you multiply it by the
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| distance modifier, and add +1 per die
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| to thrust damage. These bonuses
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| increase to +2 if you know Throwing
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| Art at DX+1 or better.
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| Thrown Weapons
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| The rules above are for throwing
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| rocks, bodies, televisions . . . anything
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| but weapons.Hurled weapons differ in
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| three important ways:
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| 1. Thrown weapons use Thrown
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| Weapon skills (p. 226) to hit, not DX
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| or Throwing (but Throwing Art does
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| allow you to throw weapons).
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| 2. Many throwing weapons travel
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| significantly farther than “ordinary”
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| objects due to streamlining and stabi-
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| lization. Others have less range, due to
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| the way they are thrown. For instance,
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| you can hurl a throwing knife as far as
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| these rules suggest, but the range at
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| which it will hit point-first and inflict
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| damage is considerably shorter.
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| 3. Throwing weapons have points,
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| edges, dense striking heads, etc. that
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| focus the force of impact. They almost
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| always do more damage than these
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| rules would indicate.
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