Certain conditions or attacks may force a character to make a stun/shock roll in order to stay conscious.  In these cases he or shee must make a 1d10 roll equal to or less than his/her Body statistic in order to remain conscious.  If the player fails, he or she will be unable to act until he or she succeeds on a stun/shock roll.  Certain attacks may give negative modifiers to the stun/shock roll.

Conditions that call for a stun/shock roll are

• Half damage - if you take over 1/2 your hit points to an area in a single attack, you must make a stun/shock roll against the pain and shock of the damage
• Hits to the head - any time your character takes damage to the head, he must make a stun/shock roll
• Knock-Out attacks - chops are a physical attack specifically designed to knock characters out.  When struck the character must make a stun/shock roll in order to stay conscious.  In addition, any blow with a club or unpowered hand weapon MAY be converted into a knockout blow by taking the appropriate modifiers.

The Net melee weapon can also make a form of Knockout Attack - see description of the weapon for particulars.

• The character immediately becomes Prone if not already Prone.
• The character may take no action other than attempt to recover from being stunned/shocked.  A recovery roll is made during each of the character's turns until the character succeeds.  Making a recovery roll counts as the character's entire turn (a character may perform no other actions during a turn in which he makes a recovery roll).

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