Falling Damage

If your character falls, they may hurt themselves. Here’s how that’s determined. First, the player rolls ATH for the landing to try to minimize damage. Difficulty to land safely goes up for every five feet they fall:

Height	Difficulty
Below ten feet	6
10-14	8
15	9
20	10
25	11
30	12
35	13
40	14
45	15
50	16
55	17
60	18
65	19
70	20
75	21
80	22
85	23
90	24
95	25
100	26

Damage is based on height and failure of landing (assuming they are not landing on something relatively flat - if they’re landing on, say, spikes, add the damage rating of the spikes to the roll damage roll as well).

Anything below 164’ drop is over in three seconds without other conditions applying (parachutes, wind resistance, flight, magic, etc.), so it is one round.

Height	Time
164’	3 secs
590’	6 secs
1300’	9 secs
2325’	12 secs
3640’	15 secs
5200’	18 secs
7080’	21 secs
9280’	24 secs
11750’	27 secs
14500’	30 secs
17500’	33 secs
20800’	36 secs
24500’	39 secs
28350’	42 secs
32600’	45 secs
37000’	48 secs
41800’	51 secs
46900’	54 secs
52200’	57 secs
57900’	60 secs
63800’	63 secs

Damage rating based is then based on height and how badly the character failed their ATH roll:

Height	Damage rating
Below ten feet	4/7/10/14
10	5/8/11/14
15	6/9/12/15
20	7/10/13/16
25	8/11/14/17
30	9/12/15/18
35	10/13/16/19
40	11/14/17/20
45	12/15/18/21
50	13/16/19/22
55	14/17/20/23
60	15/18/21/24
65	16/19/22/25
70	17/20/23/26
75	18/21/24/27
80	19/22/25/28
85	20/23/26/29
90	21/24/27/30
95	22/25/28/31
100	23/26/29/32

This maxes out at terminal velocity (2000’ fall, or 403/406/409/412 damage, which will kill pretty much anyone).

If you have read stories of people surviving falls from thousands of feet, know that in every known case of this, there were factors that slowed their fall or cushioned their impact. The above assumes none of those factors are present.

Damage can be alleviated by breaking the fall in various ways, including flight, parachutes, cushioning, magic, etc. In these cases, either the ATH roll or the damage rolls may be modified as per GM’s discretion.

Some beings may have resistance, immunity, protection from, or weakness to falling damage. Larger beings such as giants or elephant folk or brittle beings like tree folk or darqshans will have higher damage ratings to roll against. As a rule of thumb, anything bigger than 500 lbs or taller than 8’ will add +2 per 5’ above 25’. Brittle beings will add +2 per 5’ above 10’. These may be combined. For convenience sake, a GM may opt to ignore armor’s additions to mass in falling damage, but it may be calculated as well.

On the other hand, some beings such as grigs and atomies, small animal folk, and other tiny beings will have less mass and more air resistance to work with and can fall more safely. This means damage ratings are halved and cap out at 100’. Other beings, such as graun mekmek (mud elementals) or ebblings (flowing water elementals) react to concussive damage much differently, meaning impact will cause only stun and be halved. Some beings might have special body structures like ant folk that also alter the damage rating, halving it.

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Collision Damage

Collision damage (a vehicle or large object hitting a person) depends on speed and size. The player may roll ATH to dodge or minimize damage.

Difficulty to dodge goes up for every 5 mph of the vehicle or object if it is hitting the character:

Speed	Difficulty
5 mph	3
10 mph	5
15 mph	7
20 mph	9
25 mph	11
30 mph	13
35 mph	15
40 mph	17
45 mph	19
50 mph	21
55 mph	23
60 mph	25
65 mph	27
70 mph	29
75 mph	31
80 mph	33
85 mph	35
90 mph	37
95 mph	39
100 mph	41

If the vehicle is even a few feet away, the character has a much better chance to dodge. This assumes the character is in the process of being hit and trying to dodge via a leap, roll, or bound out of the way at the last possible moment. This also assumes the vehicle is not braking. A vehicle will take -6 damage roll if the driver succeeds an AWA roll to brake at the last second vs. the player’s STH (-3 if their lights are on, -6 if in broad daylight and no obstructions present).

If the vehicle is actively braking while hitting, calculate the damage based on mph at the endpoint of braking (-10 mph per second for a normal size car).

Damage based on speed:

Damage rating	Speed
0/3/6/9	below 10 mph
2/5/8/11	10 mph
4/7/10/13	20 mph
6/9/12/15	30 mph
8/11/14/17	40 mph
10/13/16/19	50 mph
12/15/18/21	60 mph
14/17/20/23	70 mph
16/19/22/25	80 mph
18/21/24/27	90 mph
20/23/26/29	100 mph
22/25/28/31	110 mph
24/27/30/33	120 mph

+2 for every 10 mph

The object or vehicle’s size also affects the damage rating. The above assumes a medium-sized car (your average sedan).

Size	Modifier
Tiny (Child’s tricycle or less)	-10
Very small (Bicycle)	-8
Small (Scooter)	-6
Moderate (Motorcycle)	-4
Below average (Large motorcycle, small car)	-2
Average (Average car)	/
Above average (Small truck or SUV, large car)	+2
Large (Big pickup or hummer)	+4
Very large (Small tank, utility vehicle, uhaul)	+6
Huge (Tank, medium-sized hauler, bus)	+8
Massive (40’ Bus)	+10
Gigantic (60’ 18-wheeler)	+12

The larger you go, the higher the bonus.

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Crash Damage

The damage for two vehicles colliding works a lot like collision damage, but with some other variants.