Attack Roll

Your “attack roll” is a regular suc-
cess roll – see Chapter 10. Figure your
effective skill (base skill plus or minus
any appropriate modifiers) with the
weapon you are using.
If your roll is less than or equal to
your “effective” skill, your attack will
hit unless your foe successfully
defends (see Defending, p. 374). If he
fails to defend – or if he can’t – you’ve
hit him.
If your roll is greater than your
effective skill, you missed!
No matter what your effective skill,
a roll of 3 or 4 always hits, and is a
“critical hit”; see Critical Hits (p. 381).
A roll of 17 or 18 always misses.
Weapon Table. Most weapons have a
reach of 1, which means you must be
adjacent to your target (that is, within
one yard of him). Reach plays a much
larger role if using a game board; see
Chapter 12.