This has always bothered me: Say a player makes a ranged attack, rolls the dice, and ends up with 4 successes and 2 advantages. The weapon is a normal Blaster Rifle with damage of 9, 3 to crit. Does he end up doing 13 damage (9 base + 4 successes) or 12 damage (1 success to "fuel" the hit, then 9 base + 3 successes)? If the player rolled 1 success and no advantage, what would his damage output be?

Thanks!

13 and 10, respectively. A weapon never actually does its base damage.

13 and 10, respectively. A weapon never actually does its base damage.

Sometimes weapons do only their base damage...but never when adding Success

But yes, to the OP, all your uncancelled Successes (anything not cancelled by failure) are used to determine damage. So 4 Success with a base damage 9 weapon means 13 damage.

A weapon never actually does its base damage.

Yeah, I presumed as much. At the very least, it does base + 1 damage.

13 and 10, respectively. A weapon never actually does its base damage.

Sometimes weapons do only their base damage...but never when adding Success

Looks like I got me some reading to do!

Effects that deal a weapon's base damage (at least, of which I am aware):

1. Burn quality

2. Blanket Barrage action (AoR)

3. Improved Parry talent (FaD)

4. OK-98 blaster carbine exploding (from Dangerous Covenants)

And that's all I can think of. So yeah, sometimes! Not often.