====== Pummel ======

**Type**:  Attack\\
**Time Required**:  3 seconds\\
**Skill Check**:  Brawling\\

You attack a foe with a fist, foot, head butt, or other natural weapon.  The foe must be within your reach.  Make a Brawling skill check.
  * **Complete Success**:  You score a **Critical Hit**, inflicting damage equal to your Body attribute modifier times five (minimum five points).
  * **Success**:  You score a **Solid Hit**, inflicting damage equal to your Body attribute modifier times three (minimum three points).
  * **Partial Success**:  You score a **Hit**, inflicting damage equal to your Body attribute modifier times two (minimum two points).  
  * **Failure**:  You score a **Glancing Blow**, inflicting damage equal to your Body attribute modifier (minimum one point).  This damage can only apply to stamina;  if the target has no stamina remaining, excess damage is //not// transferred to health.
  * **Complete Failure**:  You **Miss** the target entirely, doing no damage.

|**Complete Success**  |  Body \[mu] 5       |  Minimum 5  |
|**Success**           |  Body \[mu] 3       |  Minimum 3  |
|**Partial Success**   |  Body \[mu] 2       |  Minimum 2  |
|**Failure**           |  Body \[mu] 1\[dg]  |  Minimum 1  |
|**Complete Failure**  |  No Damage          |
\[dg]Damage inflicted to stamina only.

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**Special Conditions**

A target's Armour Rating is subtracted from your Brawling skill check.  

A target wearing Medium or Heavy Armour reduces the minimum damage inflicted to //zero// for all degrees of success.

If the foe you are attacking has a weapon or shield, attempting to Pummel them provokes a [[nexusframe:actions:Counterattack]].
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**Design Notes**:  It is assumed that the attacker will make three or four individual attempts to strike his target, but that only one will be good enough to count as an actual Pummel.
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