Confused by blowthrough example

[RockSunner]

On page 192 of DC there is an example of blowthrough.

 

"Firefight's attack roll succeeds. His handgun does RKA 2d6 damage. The GM rules the door has 2 DEF, 2 BODY. Firefight rolls RKA 1d6 and gets 4 BODY -- just enough for blowthrough! Firefight's target takes the full 4 BODY damage..."

 

This makes no sense at all. What happened to the other 1d6? Why wasn't it rolled? I would have expected RKA 2d6 to be rolled, divided by two and compared to 4. Then if it got blowthrough, the damage would be the sum of both dice.

 

I don't see an errata page for Dark Champions, so I wonder if the book is really correct.

[ghost-angel]

Re: Confused by blowthrough example

 

I would say that you don't roll full damage and divide in half - you roll half the damage. Which would make the example correct.

[RockSunner]

Re: Confused by blowthrough example

 

How does this compare with the other approach to an attack through a wall, using the rules for damaging objects? I would have expected that way to subtract a total of four body from the total attack. So the blowthrough rules make attacks through a wall much less effective and therefore much less likely for the player to try.

 

In fact, if even a paper-thin wall takes half my attack dice off the top, as a player I would make a rule for myself to never try to shoot through a wall.

[dmjalund]

Re: Confused by blowthrough example

 

I think they are extending the idea of Casual STR to "casual damage"