Item Damage

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Items from General Equipment as well as Weapons, Armor, Vehicles. The Character may want to disable the object in combat to weaken an enemy or may encounter an obstacle that they wish to use force to get through.

To learn about Combat and attacking visit the Combat page.

Battle Scaring

Items do not have health or Hit Points like Characters do. In its place, items have the Battle Scaring system. This is similar to the Battle Damage system of Space Ship combat.

Items can have between 2 and 5 Scars. The default Resiliency value is 3 Scars. Resiliency refers to the total number of Scars an Item can take. 1 Scar and the Item still works, just looks beat up. 2 Scars, and when the item is used, there is a 50/50 chance that the item will fail. 3 Scars and the Item needs repairs to function in any capacity. If the Item resiliency for Scars is just 2, then 1 Scar functions correctly, but looks beat up, and 2 Scars cause it to fail completely. For items with 4 Resilience, the two middle numbers are 2 and 3. For 2, the change is 25% of failure, and for 3, it is 75%. For 5 the three middle numbers are 2, 3 and 4. At 2 Scars the item has a 25% chance of failing, at 3 50% chance and at 4 75% chance.

Gaining a Battle Scar

The Character wishing to deal Scaring Damage to an item must target that item specifically. They must roll an accuracy check. And the action is considered a Standard Attack Held Object Action, which does not grant a Bonus action. Learn more here. The damage dealer does not need to roll for damage. If they succeed at the accuracy check, then the item gains a Battle Scar.

Weakness

Items can have a Weakness/Vulnerability to certain Damage Types. Some electronics will process a Weakness for the Electrical damage type, for example. Items do not normally state whether they have a weakness; the GM should use their discretion, but by default, most Objects do not have a Weakness and must specify that they do. If an Item does have a Weakness and that Damage Type is used, then the Item gets 2 Battle Scars instead of 1.

Item Hardness

An Item can have a Hardness rating which resembles its resistance to damage. The hardness rating can be any value starting at 0 and can increase without limit. Although it normally is something like 5, 10 or 15. This value has been achieved with the weapon used to damage the item, the maximum possible damage from a single normal attack of the weapon. (Excluding things like extra damage or bonus provided by buffs). If the weapon deals 1d6+1 and is ranged, then its maximum damage is 7, and it can give Battle Scars to any target whose Hardness is 7 or less. A melee weapon also adds Strength by default.

In-game example: An electronic military-grade lock with a hardness of 15 is on the sealed shipping container. The party can try to perform a Disable Device skill check or simply base it on. But only one player in the group has a weapon whose max damage is 15 or more, and so only that Character can bash the device in. The device has a Resiliency of 4, and so it takes 4 hits to break the object. Since the object is stationary, it is considered helpless, and accuracy checks are not necessary. Still, each hit takes 3 seconds and makes noise.

Repairing a Battle Scared Item

Repairing rules are part of Crafting. When repairing is done, it can remove Scars from an item. The Item cannot auto-heal unless specified, as it is an inanimate object.

Checking a Battle Scared Item

When an Item that is Scared more than once is used by any means, such as a Character firing a Weapon or an NPC activating a shield, a percentile check must be rolled. The success rate is determined by the number of Scars and the Item's capacity for Scars, as explained above. If the role fails, the item still works for that round or for 3 seconds. The simple act of trying again should be enough. But the Player Characters can role-play smacking or shaking the object to get it to function correctly as free actions.

Multi-Turn Non-functioning Items

Some items have an additional rule that stops the Item from functioning for an extended period of time. This is not the default, but in most cases, with a default 3 Scar Item, this would require rolling 1d6 if the item fails. And the item refuses to work for ( 1 round (3 seconds) * 1d6 ) or for non-combative situations (1 min * 1d6). In these circumstances, after the failure, the check is not required again for 24 hours, so the item can be used afterward.

Crumbling and Destroying an Item

Some Items may need to be completely removed from the situation in order for the party to progress. A most simple example would be a door. What if a door has no lock or handle? It is activated by a pad of some kind or motion sensors, and it won't open for the party. They have to break down the door to progress. To manipulate an Object's shape and position in ways it was not intended, the Item needs to suffer 1 more Battle Scar than its Resiliency limit. In order to completely destroy and break the Item into pieces making it unrepairable (But parts can still be salvaged) the Item has to suffer twice the number of Scars.

The Battle Scar system doesn't cover complete disintegration. A Player must get creative and discuss options with the GM about things like that.