Randy Oldman:
OOC: Non-Lethal Damage. p226
NLD is sorta crazy, but not. To deal NLD, a character usually has to take a -4. This is not the case for Strong Heroes. Strong's get Simple Weap Prof which gives Fists as a weapon. Randy doesn't take the -4, and probably not Big Ben Brown either. More on NLD later.
Randy doesn't have his facts correct.
First, all classes get Simple Weapons Proficiency at first level (as per the starting feats section for every class). Second, there is no -4 penalty for using fists for non-lethal damage. The default for fists is non-lethal and there is no penalty for the attack; however, if a character wants to deal lethal damage with fists, it is possible and there are specific feats that make that more effective (e.g. Combat Martial Arts).
The -4 for dealing non-lethal damage is only for armed attacks using melee weapons that are intended for lethal damage (which is what it says on p 226).
Anyone can make an attack with each hand each round--JEB could have done so if he had so chosen. But there are stiff penalties for both the strong hand and off-hand attacks when doing so. Randy has feats which allow him to attack with both hands in one round with reductions to those penalties (all of his feats and abilities result in both of his attacks being at -4 when he attacks both fists in one round).
EDIT: to fix a mistake I made in this explanation
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:18, Fri 01 Jan 2010.
