I am about to led a session and there are a couple of rules I am not sure of:

The stat TO oftern looks something like this: 6(2)

Does this mean when the creature is hit with 12 points of damage, it will soak up a total of 8 and be hit with 4 points of damage?

For ST is often looks like this 3(4).

This is strength and damage. When this creature scores a normal hit, is the hit for 7?

Thanks again!

Don

Yes, that's correct

Correct.

The numbers in the parentheses is soak (from armour, thick skin etc) for the toughness stat.

So if an attack ignores soak it would ignore the number inside the parentheses, and the monster would only reduce damage by toughness.

For strength it's the DR on the weapon used by the monster.

If a player manages to disarm a monster it would affect the DR number (unarmed damage would be 3 normally).

To break it down:

Strength(Damage)

Toughness(Soak)

Agility(Defense)