Aimed Attacks

Sometimes, you may want to just go for someone’s throat and kill him. Or maybe you just want to knock someone unconscious, knock him on the ground, or disarm him. In all these cases you may make an aimed (or declared) attack. You must then state what you want to do before you roll the d10 for the attack. So when you want to behead an opponent, you say: ‘I chop his head off’. And if you want to knock him out, you say ‘I knock him unconscious with the flat of my sword’.

12Knock opponent unconscious
Disarm opponent
Knock down opponent on grond or off ledge
15Kill opponent with a terminal hit
(decapitate, stab through the heart or eye)

Only then you roll the d10 for the attack. In the table above you can find what you must roll for these special attacks. When you fail to make this number, you miss altogether.

Blade had been evading the huge black knight for some time now, but this was his chance. He threw his meagre dagger with skill and precision, exactly in the eye slit of the visor. The dagger pierced through the knight’s eye into his brain, and killed in an instant. No matter how much armour the knight wore, this humble dagger had slain him.
(Blade’s player declared he wanted to go for the eye slit, and had to make a 15. And, believe it or not, he rolled a 9. Adding his throw dagger skill of 6 is exactly enough. One point less and he would have missed completely.)