I don't know about you all, but I tend to be fairly descriptive when describing combat. Missed attacks are shield blocks, dodges, parries, blows glancing off armor, while hits are more severe depending on damage, i.e. low damage will hit a thigh or arm, while more damage will hit the shoulder or chest, or even the head. A crit or sneak attack might hit the heart or gut.
My question is how would you describe a "hit" to vigor? Deflecting to blow at the last second? Deflecting it to hit the arms/legs/shoulder rather than the chest? Getting knocked to the ground by the blow (but not mechanically prone, of course)? Getting the wind knocked out of you as it hits your armor?
And how the hell would you describe a sneak attack, an attack which targets vital organs, when RAW it would deal vigor damage?
I don't know about you all, but I tend to be fairly descriptive when describing combat. Missed attacks are shield blocks, dodges, parries, blows glancing off armor, while hits are more severe depending on damage, i.e. low damage will hit a thigh or arm, while more damage will hit the shoulder or chest, or even the head. A crit or sneak attack might hit the heart or gut.
My question is how would you describe a "hit" to vigor? Deflecting to blow at the last second? Deflecting it to hit the arms/legs/shoulder rather than the chest? Getting knocked to the ground by the blow (but not mechanically prone, of course)? Getting the wind knocked out of you as it hits your armor?
And how the hell would you describe a sneak attack, an attack which targets vital organs, when RAW it would deal vigor damage?
If you can get ahold of the Core Starwars RPG that used the system they have a narritive of the darth maul vs. Obi wan fight that shows great narration of vitality.