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Way back when the wall came down in Berlin, we were on alert just in case it was a clever ruse by the filthy commies to start WW3 with our pants down.
On that night I went from the top of an M1A1(HA) turret to the bottom of a ditch with an icy bottom.
I broke both legs.
Will it GURPS?
The fall was about 6.6 yards.
That gives a fall velocity of about 12.6 yards per second into a hard surface (double damage!)
That translates to 3d cr.
3d will do 10 points of damage. Divided equally between both legs and assuming 10 HP, that will cripple both legs! Since I did pass out from the pain, that tracks to failing consciousness rolls and 0 HP.
My injury GURPS!
But what about the lasting problems?
That's covered too under Lame p.B141 after getting a critical fail on my HT roll to see how lasting the injury was.
Hey Angus,
ReplyDeleteI remember that day and night, we were locked down tight, in case the Russians Er I mean Soviet had "objections" like they did in Prague in 1968, almost did in Poland in 1982, in Budapest in 1956, in East Berlin in 1953. The official reason given was to prevent a possible border clash thereby provoking the Soviets, and unofficially, in case the Soviets used the unrest with the Honecker government collapsing to invade West Germany we would already be in a ready posture to defend West Germany in depth. But luckily the only thing that invaded the west was the ugly ass Traubbi's.