HA/EB and Body Damage

[hartshero]

Ok, this has been a question I've had for about two months now & I haven't been able to find the answer. A 1d6 total HA can do up to two body. Is that right? By that rational a child could kill a superhero without doing stun if he didn't have resistant defence. I don't understand. Is there some rule set up that normal attacks don't do body. How can a character survive without resistant defence? Thanks for your time.

Harts

[Steve Long]

You're overlooking the fact that an HA is Normal Damage, not Killing Damage. Therefore Normal Defenses, such as everyday PD, protect against it, making the situation you describe highly unlikely -- and in fact flat-out impossible with every PC I've ever seen.

To put it another way, Resistant Defenses are not required to protect a character against any BODY damage -- only the BODY damage done by Killing Attacks. The BODY damage done by Normal Damage attacks is protected against by Normal Defenses.