Myth.

Great Strength can only be used to run at full speed while carrying someone.


Myth or fact?
You can use no in-game skills while under the effects of Weakness.

Do you have one for us, Jim?

Also, you can only splint it if you have the skill to do so, like First Aid.

The limb becomes maimed again not only if it is hit again (including by uncalled damage) but also if you go unstable.

And indeed, you cannot cover your ears to avoid taking a 'By My Voice' effect. You can run, though! (Jump and the explosion won't get you!) :-)

Aaaand, just to reiterate:

Myth or fact: if you have 3 vitality, and you take a hit for 3 damage such that you exactly hit 0 vitality, you are stable.

-Kendra

Taken from the Current 5th Edition Accelerant Rules

"Claws are considered to be melee weapons and can be used to block melee attacks. Claws are not affected by Disarm. Destroy effects delivered to such weaponry will cause a Maim effect to the limb using the weapon." Also, "Maim only works on Arms and Legs" (not sure if that makes a difference or not being Claws are Body weaponry, the question is do they count as a limb?)

A Destroy effect will maim the claw, but it does not clarify or mention about tradtional maims so my guess is no?

Myth- you can hop/limb/drag on a Maimed leg
"One limb becomes useless. An arm must hang at your side and cannot be used for any game ability. A leg becomes unusable. You must go down on one knee - you cannot hop. You may crawl using your other limbs."

As in, when you hear the very beginning of the 'By My...', you definitely can't cover your ears, but you can try to run away from the area to get far enough away so you can't hear the call even though you're listening for it. This obviously only has a chance of working if the effect is already going off some distance away. This has come up with rituals in Aralis, which typically have a damaging 'backlash' of variable area which is modeled by several 'By My Voice' calls. So if you're some distance away, you can perceive, say, the fireball beginning to expand out from the place where people are doing the ritual, and get out of range at least before the second effect call goes off. Maybe.

Admittedly it's very unlikely someone could travel far enough to make a difference between the beginning and the rest of a single call. But physically moving to get out of the blast radius is different from artificially making yourself unable to hear something that you would otherwise have been able to hear in the place you are.

Does that make sense?

-Kendra

Interesting... I don't have an answer but here's an additional question... A Claw represents, generally, just that. Claws, horns, talons, or teeth used to hurt the opponent.

With that in mind... If one is delivering a blow hard enough to break an arm, would that not snap the big fingernail, in theory? If so, could the critter in question still use that limb for locomotion, if not combat?

In short, should a Claw take a Maim as a Destroy, and a Destroy as a Maim?

It's not defined anywhere in the rules as I can find it...

Myth or Fact:

Death Strike is not a Death Effect and can not be negated by the expenditure of Karma.


Fact: Death Strike cannot be negated by the expenditure of Karma