Skeletal Bushi (Minion) p. 206

What to do about these advantages and disadvantages? Not sure what they mean.

• Advantages: Unholy Strength (Fire) [Martial; Physical, Spiritual], Visage of Death (Water) [Social; Interpersonal, Physical]
• Disadvantages: Skin and Bones (Earth) [Martial; Physical]

But here's my major psychological malfunction, if you're the brand new character, Hida McCrabbyface, with your standard non-sacred weapons how to kill these things:

• Does Not Bleed (A skeletal bushi ignores all critical strikes inflicted by sources that do not have the Sacred quality.)

So how does one kill them? Or can you just not kill them without a spell or weapon with the sacred quality?

Furthermore...

Does that mean (logically speaking) that skeletons are the Shadowlands secret weapon, because there just aren't enough shugenja or sacred weapons in existence?

Or does that mean that the Crab have enough shugenja and sacred weapons to keep them in check?

Or does that mean that skeletons are pretty rare?

/confused

Paige

They are a minion. They get defeated after punching through their Resilence. Their perk makes it so that you can't crit them to get extra damage = severity of the crit, as minions don't suffer critical wounds - instead they get damaged for the severity of the crit.

Well holy cats that was easy. Thank you.

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