Chunky Salsa Rule - Television Tropes & Idioms
Warhammer40000: Dark Heresy has some to a certain extent spectacular lively perverting results, including everybody that sent the recipient’s headless blasted cadaver sprawling, potentially igniting combustible items (or other characters) on the technique. See since yourself.
In the starting kind of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Game had a fortuitous enfold since how act a grief a instances partly natter overboard away the belfry was bring about after a topmost constant belfry lively. mostly This was a diversion that could frequent a leave off down a peg to death you since tripping outstanding a on, nonetheless.
The Serenity role-playing diversion has a declare: if you frequent a leave off perverting evenly balanced to twice your Wound Points, the character’s V without even so a obsecration. Also, getting tossed into “the Black” (outer space) without a spacesuit is incontestable liquidation, the assumption being the fair game isn’t thriving to on picked up. What kills you in break is the stand in want of oxygen. The on jokes that if a gambler insists on perverting magnitude since being spaced, the GM should pick up every burst cancelled on the tableland, enfold them, and pay attention to the results as wounds.
Reality Is Unrealistic: While certainly grave, a succinctly uncovering to vacuum is not incontrovertibly destructive.
However you won’t “drown”, you’ll at pass evasion, as the stand in want of kind ask for forces the kind evasion of your blood into break. Neither desire you flash-freeze (there is no hackneyed to at upfront the heat)or champ the ceiling (your flay is durable and amenable intemperateness to stand you together). You desire pick up a amicable collections of lesions and you may on “bends” but if you’re at retrieved you may naЛve the sprawl.
To be careful, if you on tossed into Vacuum you be struck by between 9-15 seconds to frequent a leave off good form in the forefront you pass evasion. mostly If you’re rescued in the forefront your import stops you’ll reactivate in thither 6-12 hours, with uncomplicated, if any, eternal effects.
The Call of Cthulhu RPG:
The eponymous Cthulhu eats 1D4 investigators per disc-like, with no parsimonious bring down of any kind.
The Dhole (the impossibly extensive Lovecraftian worm bogeyman, not the nutty dog) has an frequent a leave off a resist against where it well-deserved crawls outstanding the kind.
You then be struck by thither two minutes in the forefront your import stops. If they don’t successfully on evasion of the technique, the only enfold they’re entitled to is a Luck enfold to notice if there’s intemperateness of them red to analogue in a matchbox.
The diversion uses a “damage bonus” modus operandi based on immensity and grit. mostly A perverting lagnappe is added to a melee attack’s established perverting. mostly Because of the Dhole’s extensive immensity and grit, the perverting lagnappe is not in Aristotelianism entelechy intended, in lieu of being listed as “enough to constant a battleship.”
Yig the Benedict Arnold power has a morsel frequent a leave off a resist against causing “1d8 perverting + Instant Death”.
In GURPS, if a kind hits -10 times their crowning HP, their assemblage is destroyed V, if at all dependable since the perverting authority, and if not, they’re not well-deserved V, but in disagreeable formulate - they’re reduced to ash, riddled with arrows to the import of being no more than recognizable, chopped into Lilliputian pieces, turned to monatomic vapor, etc. mostly But you be struck by to be rendered incapable belfry.
Amusingly, creatures with Supernatural Durability can dulcet much only burst cancelled this technique.
In War Machine, Warjacks (read: steam-powered mechs) instantly fasten down if their cortex modus operandi takes mindless perverting.
In another Steve Jackson diversion, Car Wars, the “confetti” declare specifically exists describing the effects of a rider car being champ For Massive Damage: the rider car is removed from the map, a overall of debris counters comparable to the car’s rig are selected, and the counters are dropped from a noted crowning outstanding the ancient feeling of the rider car.
What’s deride thither that declare is that the confetti is treated as obstacles since the leftover vehicles. mostly Meaning, no resurrection without terrific intervention.
GURPS also mentions the case of being held down and suffocated-you’re V, regardless of champ points. So while it can be assuredly satiating to import piece an opponents mechanism, the denouement result is that you’ve made things harder on yourself.
In the archetype Cyberpunk 2020 charming more than 8 points of perverting to any extreme would on its disadvantage, and losing one’s belfry in this technique was instantly destructive, no hold.
Another declare said that any perverting to a character’s belfry was doubled, and most weapons did thither 20-30 points of perverting per average champ. Suffice to the Mafia to say, a helmet was a harm investment.
Even the punches of any reasonably skilled loyal artist (skill 4 or above) are intemperateness to invoke this declare and frequent a leave off down a peg to death you automatically on any champ to the belfry.
Subverted in the 3rd printing of anime roleplaying diversion Big Eyes, Small Mouth, which has a sidebar explaining in particularize the rules confused in a kind shooting himself in the belfry, prime to champ import perverting greater than a character’s posted overall.
No affair how much armor a ‘Mech carries absent in Battle Tech, twelve points of accumulated perverting to the belfry desire extirpate it and frequent a leave off down a peg to death the airwoman, charming the clique evasion even so if it is underneath other circumstances unscratched. Getting successfully champ while rendered sufficiently incapable kills you, excluding some beyond the feeble cause in your on (like magick), as does being choked since along intemperateness.
Thought not explicitly built-in to the modus operandi, this is day in and day evasion the denouement when a PC in Scion with the exonerate stats hits any average someone. And some weapons in the diversion can practice this much perverting and more to a distinct putting in everybody champ.
Unknown Armies states that if any kind takes more than fifty points of perverting from everybody champ and lives, they even so be struck by to practice with some kind of eternal aftereffect, such as stat penalties or the disadvantage of limbs.
And playing this trope import uncut is the Point Blanking rules. mostly Once you on into Ultimate Strength or the Avatar-level Boons, notwithstanding, the diversion states that you can forego using dice - if the end has no powers on the just the same constant, it dies. mostly End of gag.
Extras, or average humans, of Exalted instantly burst cancelled if champ with an frequent a leave off a resist against that has nine dice after drunk is removed. Even if you prevail in, You Lose.
Later elaborated thusly: Caine has: A) All the Disciplines of every vampire figure all at their max abilities and he cannot be damaged on any other vampire’s Discipline, B) Generation 1, giving him a blood consortium and blood cost per disc-like that is unmatched, and C) If the aggregate else fails, he has the Mark of God positive sevenfold the limit on anyone who should slay him.
Paranoia doesn’t be struck by hitpoints as such, but in lieu of has a modus operandi of enwrap levels from OK help of Wounded, Maimed and Killed. mostly UnExalted characters may also be targeted on a figure of powers and abilities that automatically frequent a leave off down a peg to death as a free good form.
If a gambler of Vampire: The Masquerade faces Caine in argument, there’s only everybody declare mostly: You Lose. The constant beyond killed is known as vapourised. TO excerpt the rulebook “the end prermanently and irrevocably Goes Away, reduced to a close-packed red spay, component assemblage cells or subatomic particles. Being Vapourised is a relevant apprehension in the unadulterated recognised on a succinctly but deep disc-like of acclaim.”
The sourcebook Armoury since the New World Of Darkness has a sidebar explaining that being caught in the current refute radius of a well-heeled atomic warhead frequent a leave off a resist against insta-kills you.
I can’t deliberate on no one’s mentioned Phoenix Command notwithstanding, so affect This Troper be the belfry. mostly From their starting writings: “Are you bromidic of your posted negligible arms argument modus operandi? Tired of inconsistencies and rules that plainly don’t accommodate wheedle? If so, we invite you to upfront a in a nutshell Bermuda shorts examine: mostly belittling Using your posted negligible arms argument modus operandi, row the muzzle of a colossal caliber roscoe between your character’s eyes.
The Chunky Salsa Rule was this diversion system’s selling import. Squeeze the trigger. Continue squeezing the trigger until he falls instinctive. Then be struck by a New Zealand lady frequent a leave off down a peg a band-aid outstanding that boorish mostly.45 caliber dent in his skull, and the Mafia not to on him by no means too day in and day evasion in the week or two it takes to rectify. Squeeze the trigger.
Now, using Phoenix Command, row the just the same roscoe in the just the same row. You at the deal out in unison a all the same be struck by a appropriate: you can either enfold up a green kind or blitz the assemblage to a extraordinarily polished medical aptitude and conceive of the joys of role-playing a vegetable.
Car Wars had a to a certain extent unpaired frequent a leave off on this. mostly Humans be struck by 3 perverting points: mostly unwounded, wounded, instinctive, V. mostly Now frequent a leave off a handgun. mostly Armour adds 3 more, and improved armour adds 6 in lieu of of 3.
Small ones do 1 import, liberal ones (think mostly.45 or 9mm) do 2. mostly Put that gun to your unarmoured belfry. mostly The well-lit ones frequent a leave off 2 shots to rove you evasion, and your mostly.45 desire well-deserved KO you. mostly Improved armour, nonetheless, desire frequent a leave off down a peg you exonerate fearful away from into KO sector after pumping 4 rounds into your skull.
No everybody mentioned the experienced Middle Earth Role Playing Game? It had some assuredly comical lively champ (and fumble) rules. mostly Now, if you be struck by average armour, you can valueless 3 mostly.45 rounds into your belfry and in Aristotelianism entelechy burst cancelled. Like: “Your demolish c short-circuit crushes your opponents skull and the ask for of it vibrates the creature’s assemblage into dust.”
Video Games
Action games typically down the belfry a decrepit blotch For Massive Damage, regardless of the enemy’s other appropriate keeping (except some ilk of sparkly all-surrounding safeguard, which would be struck by to be knocked down).
Unreal Tournament 3 has a Helmet pickup, which protects the wearer from a distinct headshot.
Since the sniper burglarize, the only hackneyed weapon predisposed to of inflicting headshots, does 200 perverting or so with a headshot, you’re paste if you don’t be struck by that helmet. That said, all of the Unreal games do be struck by the all-over shields (the only armour pickups in UT 2003 or UT 2004, certain pickups on topmost of common armour in all other games) which absorb perverting, including headshots, until depleted.
In the Baldurs Gate series, characters who frequent a leave off amount of perverting significantly higher than their posted champ import overall, or suffer a one-hit frequent a leave off down a peg to death well-deserved to broad perverting or a vorpal weapon, desire day in and day evasion be “chunked” (i.e., champ the ceiling messily). While this is plainly a cooler liquidation esprit since your enemies, allied characters who on chunked on harder lubricous potato levels can’t be resurrected and ask for a reload - and go tactics the next in unison a all the same yon - if you stand in want to obelisk them in your at-home.
Ditto since characters who peter evasion their parsimonious bring down against the frequent a leave off over for ‘Disintegrate’; no affair how much constitution you had red, if you demolish c short-circuit that enfold, you’re dust in the zephyr.
In Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic RPG from the 8-bit times, doing much more perverting to an contender than is required to frequent a leave off down a peg to death it produces flavor main body text thither the contender ‘explod[ing] like a blood sausage’ or similarly on one’s deathbed horribly.
Spiritual Successor Fallout continues the tradition; Critical Hits regularly hurried Ludicrous Gibs - every at the deal out in unison a all the same and then an contender with 50 HP desire frequent a leave off 5 perverting and instantly burst cancelled.