Hand-To-Hand Attack and Hand-To-Hand Damage Classes

[ratdesang]

If you purchase a Hand-To-Hand Attack as a power, do your Martial Art's Hand-to-Hand Damage Classes apply to it's damage?

 

The description of a Hand-To-Hand Attack in the 5th edition book implies that the reverse is true, that if you perform a Martial Arts maneuver you can apply your Hand to hand attacks damage to the Martial Art's.

 

Whats the result if your Hand-To-Hand Attack has something like Armor Piercing or Penetration applied to it? Does the whole attack get that advantage, or only the part of damage given by the Hand-To-Hand Attack?

[Steve Long]

Re: the application of Advantages, see 5E 272.

 

As noted on 5E 119, HA damage adds to Normal Damage Martial Maneuvers -- which would include any Extra DCs that apply to those Maneuvers. However, the character has to actually use the Martial Maneuver in question; he can't simply apply the Extra DCs to the HA without using his Martial Arts.