The Combat Workspaces

The Combat Workspaces are areas where you can calculate what we call your “Whup-Ass Factor.” Your Whup-Ass Factor is a measure of your ability to, well, to whup another Player’s ass. As you can see from the Combat Workspace, you can derive your Whup-Ass Factor from your Power and Intelligence. Specifically, your Whup-Ass Factor is the sum of two numbers—your Power, divided by ten (round down) plus your Intelligence, divided by 100 (round down).

Sometimes, in the heat of battle, people get perplexed by the mechanics of dividing and rounding, so the Combat Workspace instructs you to simply drop the final digit from your Power and the final two digits from your Intelligence, and add the two resultant numbers. For instance, a player with a Power of 300 would drop the last digit to get 30. If this same player had an Intelligence of 750, she would drop the last two digits and get seven. Adding these two numbers would give her a Whup-Ass Factor of 37.

The player with the highest Whup- Ass Factor is the player most likely to be able to mop up the bar with all the other players, although a non-trivial element of chance always exists. (You’ll note that the Combat Workspaces also contain an area to record die rolls.) The rest of the details on how to use these Workspaces are covered in the section on “Combat” in the “Hurting Other People,” segment of these rules, beginning on page 14.