A bad roll (as opposed to an average roll) could of put Laura in a really bad place. The belt gives her a +2 to strength, so if both attacks hit, she would be sitting at 4, and that bad roll would of killed her. I'm assuming that the belt wouldn't of counted in the strength number for death as, if you're at 0 str without it, you're still dead.<br/><br/>As it is, her str is a 9 and that still hurts as she's under a medium load still.