Supplement Four
Mongoose
This rule bugs me a bit. It's almost perfect, except for one thing...
If you slap someone across the face during a melee doing one point of damage (let's say you've got STR 10 and rolled a 1 for damage) and still have 10 hit points left, then you are unconscious, not dead, after being whacked with a sword by your enemy for another 9 points of damage.
That's a lot of lethal damage being dealt with the sword--only 1 point of non-lethal damage.
What really gets me is that there's no way to kill the target outside of rendering him unconscous then killing him
You can't run him through with your sword! You've got to beat him unconsious first.
If you slap someone across the face during a melee doing one point of damage (let's say you've got STR 10 and rolled a 1 for damage) and still have 10 hit points left, then you are unconscious, not dead, after being whacked with a sword by your enemy for another 9 points of damage.
That's a lot of lethal damage being dealt with the sword--only 1 point of non-lethal damage.
What really gets me is that there's no way to kill the target outside of rendering him unconscous then killing him
You can't run him through with your sword! You've got to beat him unconsious first.