What happens when a characteristic is reduced to zero? The Horrific Injury and Gruesome Injury criticals can reduce characteristics, but I can't seem to find anything in the book detailing what happens. This came up playing The Enemy of My Enemy when one of Stimm's Soldiers (Intellect 1) took a Horrific Injury and rolled Intellect for the characteristic reduced, bringing it to 0. I just said that it killed him, but does anyone know of any actual ruling?

I'm pretty sure they can't drop below one. Both the criticals specify "to a minimum of 1", I seem to recall.

Gruesome Injury specifies that, but Horrific does not. The only difference other than that is that Gruesome is permanent and Horrific until it is healed.

If they can be dropped below one, I would suggest that it should reflective of having NONE of that attribute.

Intellect - Vegetable.

Agility - Paraplegic.

Brawn - Dead or on permanent life-support.

Cunning - Blind and Deaf.

Willpower - Zombie.

Presence - Mute and hideously disfigured.