When do you die?

[akalars 0]

I'm a bit confused by the rules. You do not die when you run out of wounds, but start to get critical damage. Is there a number of critcall damage that will kill you, or is the only way to die when the critical effect say so?

 

 

[bogi_khaosa 267]

When the Critical Effect says so, or when a Blood Loss roll is failed.

 

Barring unusual things like Strange Physiology or Warp Instability.

Edited December 20, 2013 by bogi_khaosa

[venkelos 568]

Yep, each table in the Critical Injury EVENTUALLY gets to "you blew it", and says you die, often in a rather spectacular fashion. Damage is cumulative, so if you keep taking shots to the torso, even if they are from lesser things, or a different type, you eventually hit, say "as the attack washes over the target, his skin turns black and peels...", somewhere before Crit 10. This is the usual lasgun death, while others might be different. Hopefully, somewhere in here, you burn Fate, and you, or your team, win the fight, or bail like there's no Commissar with you.

[bogi_khaosa 267]

Actually the answer to "when do you die?" in Only War is "a lot."

[akalars 0]

With critical damage you get the effect at the number of critical dmg point your at? So if I first get 2 critical and it is energy I get the effect on the energy critical table. I f I later get 2 more I but impact I would look at the number 4 description of the impact table and apply that effect?

[Tenebrae 429]

With critical damage you get the effect at the number of critical dmg point your at? So if I first get 2 critical and it is energy I get the effect on the energy critical table. I f I later get 2 more I but impact I would look at the number 4 description of the impact table and apply that effect?

Assuming I understod your question correctly, yes.

[venkelos 568]

With critical damage you get the effect at the number of critical dmg point your at? So if I first get 2 critical and it is energy I get the effect on the energy critical table. I f I later get 2 more I but impact I would look at the number 4 description of the impact table and apply that effect?

I believe so, yes. Now, someone with considerably more playtime invested, or a superior grasp of the rules MIGHT come along here, in a minute, and say "Nope, that's wrong," but this is how I have understood it, as written.