Quote from: One Horse Town;254707You lose a round if you fail your combat test and your opponent passes his. The number by which he passes his determines how many numbers you turn your shock dice by.

Cool, for some reason I got the impression that you could lose multiple rounds of combat, which seemed excessive to me.  If you only lose one round of combat actions, then it seems fair thus far.  

Now as I understand it, the number of Shock ticks depend on the relative success of the one who passed the combat test.  Can the degree of success ever become egregious?  Is possible for someone to fail their combat test and their opponent to get a degree of success that would immediately cycle his opponents Shock and/or Wound dice?  Or, in an extreme situation, cycle both the opponents Shock and Wound dice at the same time?

Quote from: One Horse Town;254707It goes up. So, if your wound dice is a d4, the first time your shock dice cycles, you place it on the table at 1 (suffering a 1 point penalty to all skill tests). Next time the shock dice cycles, you turn it to 2 (2 point penalty to all skill tests), etc. Once you get to the wound dice being at its highest value, the next time your shock dice cycles, you either die or are out of the combat (not thought about that yet, TBH).

Yes, that's what I meant; what happens when your Wound die is used up?  Maybe the character is unconscious and dying first before immediately dying.  This way they could have a chance to stabilize themselves with some kind of roll (Health, Body, Endurance, etc.), and if they don't stabilize in a certain amount of time, say numbers of round equal to their Shock or Wound die, then they would perish.