====== Strike ======

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

You attack a foe with a weapon in hand.  The foe must be within your reach.  Make a Melee skill check.
  * **Complete Success**:  You score a **Critical Hit**, inflicting your weapon's base damage times five, plus your Body attribute modifier.
  * **Success**:  You score a **Solid Hit**, inflicting your weapon's base damage times three, plus your Body attribute modifier.
  * **Partial Success**:  You score a **Hit**, inflicting your weapon's base damage times two, plus your Body attribute modifier.
  * **Failure**:  You score a **Glancing Blow**, inflicting your weapon's base damage plus your Body attribute modifier.  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**  |  Damage \[mu] 5 + Body       |
|**Success**           |  Damage \[mu] 3 + Body       |
|**Partial Success**   |  Damage \[mu] 2 + Body       |
|**Failure**           |  Damage \[mu] 1 + Body\[dg]  |
|**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 Melee skill check.  A target wearing Heavy Armour also reduces the weapon's base damage by one.

If you are wielding a weapon in both hands, increase the damage multiplier //on a **Hit** or better// by one---that is, a **Hit** inflicts damage times three, a **Solid Hit** inflicts damage times four, and a **Critical Hit** inflicts damage times six.

A weapon held in a character's off hand suffers slight on its attack roll.
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**Design Notes**:  It is assumed that the attacker will make two or three individual attempts to strike his target, but that only one will be good enough to count as an actual Strike.
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