Blast & Red joker

[Blaugeld]

Hi everyone!

Wgat happens when tout flip a Red joker on the damage flip on a blast attack. The Target model receives severe plus 1 damage. What about the models underneath the blast marker. 

1) they receive severe damage

2) moderate damage + 1

3) moderate damage

[Mycellanious]

Moderate, since Red Joker damage counts as Severe damage and Blasts do one step lower. 

Damage Modifiers do not carry over onto Blasts, so no +1 from Red Joker, Crit Strike, etc. 

[solkan]

Note that whit the Red Joker, the official result of the damage flip is Severe (see pages 8 and 24 of the PDF, where 14 is the numeric value of the Red Joker)

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The result of the flip will determine whether the damage is Weak (0-5), Moderate (6-10), or Severe (11-14)...

So, addressing the proposed possibilities in order:

41 minutes ago, Blaugeld said:

1) they receive severe damage

No.  The Red Joker's "Severe+1" isn't an additional flip category.

41 minutes ago, Blaugeld said:

2) moderate damage + 1

No.  If you're attempting to read the Red Joker's "Severe +1" as a damage modifier, it can't apply because of the last paragraph of the Blasts rules--it's a damage modifier applying to the main target of the attack.

41 minutes ago, Blaugeld said:

3) moderate damage

This is the correct result.  The Red Joker's Severe category is reduced to Moderate, and the +1 doesn't carry across.