Damage types:
  - Bashing:
    - High natural soak
    - Armor has very little effect on it
  - Slashing:
    - Low natural soak
    - All armor is rather effective
    - Mail and plate is essentially invulnerable to it
  - Piercing:
    - Low natural soak
    - Mail is somewhat effective
    - Plate is very effective
  - Burning:
    - No natural soak
    - Most armor is of limited effect against it
      - Almost always an environmental hazard, not a combat effect
        - Though combat can occur in hazardous environments, the environmental hazard rules are used instead of attack rules

Armor types:
  - Baseline:
    Avoidance: Dex (see other rules)
    Soak:
      Bashing:  Sta + 8
      Slashing: Sta + 4
      Piercing: Sta + 2
      Burning:  Sta
  - Plate/Breastplate/Brigandine/Coat of plates:
    Avoidance:
      Bashing:  3
      Slashing: 5
      Piercing: 5
      Burning:  2
    Soak:
      Bashing:  5
      Slashing: 10
      Piercing: 10
      Burning:  2
  - Mail:
    Avoidance:
      Bashing:  3
      Slashing: 5
      Piercing: 2
      Burning:  2
    Soak:
      Bashing:  4
      Slashing: 10
      Piercing: 7
      Burning:  2
  - Hardened leather:
    Avoidance:
      Bashing:  3
      Slashing: 3
      Piercing: 3
      Burning:  2
    Soak:
      Bashing:  3
      Slashing: 5
      Piercing: 5
      Burning:  3 
  - Gambeson:
    Avoidance:
      Bashing:  3
      Slashing: 3
      Piercing: 3
      Burning:  2
    Soak:
      Bashing:  3
      Slashing: 5
      Piercing: 5
      Burning:  3
  - Non-combat clothing:
    - Leather overcoat:
      Avoidance:
        Bashing:  0
        Slashing: 1
        Piercing: 1
        Burning:  1
      Soak:
        Bashing:  0
        Slashing: 2
        Piercing: 1
        Burning:  1

Weapon Types:
  Equipment rules:
    Tags:
      - Unholsterable:
          Max: Must be carried by hand
          Examples: Longbow (strung)
      - Cumbersome:
          Max: 1 on person without penalties
          Examples: Shield, Longbow (unstrung), polearms, 2-handed swords
      - Medium:
          Max: 2 per cumbersome slot + 2, can also be in pack
          Examples: 1-handed swords, maces, axes, long daggers, quivers
      - Compact:
          Max: No maximum besides what is implied by clothing
          Examples: Throwing knives, short daggers/shivs, 

Attack rules:
  - Melee:
    - Chance to hit:
      - Dex + skill
    - Damage:
      - (Str)/2 + weapon mod + skill
  - Ranged (archery):
    - Chance to hit:
      - (Sta + Per)/2 + skill + range mod
    - Damage:
      - Str + arrowhead mod
  - Thrown:
    - Chance to hit:
      - Dex + skill
    - Damage:
      - Str + skill OR weapon damage cap, whichever is less

Armor rules:
  - Avoidance:
    - Avoidance is 0 for all armors for bashing
    - Varies for other types
    - Does not apply to environmental damage
  - Soak:
    - Subtracted from hit damage
    - If hit damage becomes zero, the attack "bounces"
  - Conversion to bashing:
    - Special rule for piercing or slashing damage affected by soak
    - "crushing" tag usually present on heavy piercing weapons, rare on slashing weapons because blades are almost always light
    - If the "crushing" tag is present, then:
      - Take the raw damage, call it R
      - Take the soak, call it S
      - Take the post-soak damage, call it P
      - If P >= 0:
        - Apply P damage as original type, then separately apply S damage as bashing
      - If P < 0:
        - Main attack "bounces", bashing effect still applies.
        - Apply S - abs(P) damage as bashing
        - The attack is considered to hit, overall, if the bashing damage overcomes soak
  - Staggering:
    - Staggering is a "damage" type which is present on weapons and environmental dangers which have a lot of momentum. No armor has any effect on it, however there is a natural soak applied to it.
    - If the damage is not soaked, the receiver may be knocked down, subject to a dexterity check to roll and find their footing.
    - Staggering damage never applies to health; however it may accompany bashing damage or, with the crushing tag, any other kind.
    - Staggering soak:
      - Based on weight and endurance
      - Post-soak resistance based on dex
    - Staggering damage is capped by the weight of the attacker.
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