Defence and Resistance Summaries

One of the trickiest things to remember in BathLARP is precisely how skills and castings interact and what blocks what. The following is a summary of these areas; bear in mind that, especially post playtest period, it can briefly fall out of alignment and it’s always worth checking against the actual rules.

Defence Against Damage Summary

To read this table, start from the top with any damage call and work down. Effects attached to damage only work if they go as far as Skin and do more than a Bruise – Endurance doesn’t stop them, but might mitigate them (e.g. takes the initial bleed off Throat Slit).

Type	Layer	Normal		Special
Nullifying Castings		Includes Mirror Image
Deflection	Dexterity and cast Dexterity	Sum equivalent to damage = Dodge		Halved by Swift and Mass	Nullified by Undodgeable or being target of Mass
Power Armour and Power Armour Castings		Any damage = no Normal Bruise
Protection	Normal Armour	Sum equivalent to damage = Bruise	Sum 4 x damage = Bounce	Halved by Piercing	Nullified by Through
	Armouring Castings
	Damage Reduction
Body	Toughness and Cast Toughness
Skin		Attached Effects happen		True Strike goes straight here if no Mirror Image.
Endurance

Notes:

Damage needs to be 10 or more after Endurance and drop the location below 0 to Break it.

Mass Normal or Power Damage castings also get past Mirror Image – effectively the target is ‘everywhere’ so the images are used up immediately.

Special Strikes:
- Swift – halves Deflection (Dodge, Dexterity and Cast Dexterity).
- Piercing – halves Protection and Body (Damage Reduction, Toughness, Normal Armour and Armouring Castings).
- Undodgeable – nullifies Deflection (Dodge, Dexterity and Cast Dexterity).
- Through – nullifies Protection and Body (Damage Reduction, Toughness, Normal Armour and Armouring Castings).
- True Strike – nullifies everything except Mirror Image. Endurance auto-heals the damage after it’s been taken.

Some creatures have special extra defences that grant Immunities – see the GM Rules for details.

The following castings all protect a person directly against damage or against damaging castings. Note that some of them can change what type of damage they protect against depending on who’s casting it, what they’ve specified while casting and what’s attacking!

The following is a collection of what castings and skills are resisted by what types of casting and skills. It is not a complete list – for example it doesn’t cover Disarm or all the uses of Spell Immunity – but should cover most of the ones likely to be questioned mid-game. Please note that these are all the standard versions of these castings, and thus may be altered by GMs for individual games.