LOL, I love when threads go awry!!!

I knew a Air Force Spec Ops guy that his chute got jacked up and he (almost) free fell the 200 or so of his jump. At Impact was probably going around 45-55 Mph. Broke almost all the bones in his body, but lived, and remained active duty!! When I was in Germany, an Airman of mine got in a fight down at a club, punched a guy, he dropped, hit his head on the ground and died about a week later...

Gravity, art thou a *****.

Life and death in these situations seem fickle at best, almost like it is determined by the roll of some dice and a chart of random crap...

@Miiselle, didn't like being a binary load lifter!?

I worked at a place where a person fell from the bottom rung of a ladder and died. he hit his head on the landing. this can happen. as was brought out earlier, falling damage isn't for a small jump, but rather a violent force and ending, like jumping off a cliff, or falling to the ground and scraping your knee.

i do wonder what changes it would cause if you were to fall on a world with lower gravity? your landing wouldn't be as strong because you aren't going as fast and there isn't as much force pulling you down to the sudden stop. or if you're a creature who comes from a world with higher gravity? their legs would be shaped better for it, and it would still be gentler then what they are evolved for. thoughts?

I think the falling rules are pretty reasonable. First of all, you get that Average: Coordination check that reduces both the wounds and the strain taken from the fall with successes and Advantages, respectively. Second, soak applies to the wounds taken. This means that pretty much everyone can handle a fall from Short range (which I interpret as 3-8 metres or thereabouts) while a fall from Medium range/height will knock you out cold. A 10-metre drop is a considerable distance to fall.

Now, my way of handling special circumstances is to assign some boost or setback dice. Is the character dropping into a snowdrift? Add 3 boost dice to the check, or maybe just flat subtract 2-4 points from both the wound and strain damage before rolling. Are you dropping down onto concrete? That's a setback die or two. And a creative player can always flip a Destiny point to strategically place a hay cart or similar right underneath where he's dropping down from.

The last sentence in this quote is the most important! I had half of my group fail an athletics check to jump between two buildings, luckily they hit an awning and turned a medium distance fall to a short distance one.

@JahPocaLyPse That's A Good Use Of A Destiny Point. LikeAn Indiana Jones Movie Lol. You Need A Fadoria.

@R2builder No. I Didn't Like It, But I Will Say That My Zeltron Gunslinger Does Stand Shoulder To Servo With Her Metal Skinned Brothers And Sisters In Their Quest For Freedom.

Thinking About The Idea Of Gravity, Which For Some Reason Didn't Show Up On My Past Post, Id Probably Just Add A Blue Die, Then A Black For higher Gravity

Or for major gravity differences, shift the fall one range band.

The one time I ever broke my arm: there was an apartment going up near my house and they have the foundation and basement in place, but nothing else. Like a dumb kid, I go over and scale the scaffolding like I was freakin' Indiana Jones or something. Oh, time to go - I start climbing down, slip and fall from the low wall, barely 2 feet up off the ground - BAM! break my arm. Oh no, not over the yawning abyss of the construction site - the final 18 inches.

Well, guess I got a good story out of it. . . . .

Thanks for the feedback! I think the thing I was missing is how fuzzy the range bands are. I read in the book engaged was something you could melee or interact with, short was a few meters, medium a few dozen, and that stuck with me rather than the "engaged is also the blast radius of a grenade" type interpretation.

Something Dennis Tueller worked out in law enforcement training. a person can do lethal damage to a person with a knife at around 21 feet in 3 seconds which is about how long it takes to draw a gun. So I would rule 21 feet as short. With a sword I can cover about 30 feet in a few seconds and hit you.

Just some real world info as food for thought on the range bands. In my group about 10 feet is engaged and out to about 25 feet is short range. Medium is out to about 50 feet.