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Old 11-04-2013, 12:25 PM   #46
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Default Re: Damage and wounding readjustment

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Originally Posted by Figleaf23 View Post
While \, some of the discussion on the thread has digressed in the direction of whether cutting is 'good' against armor, my only concern is that cutting is better relative to crushing, in terms of a GURPS armor penetration characteristic.
Well, the Blunt Trauma and Edged Weapons rule (LT103) manages to both significantly reduce the ease of penetrating armour with cutting weapons, and retain some measure of superiority of cutting over crushing damage. (It was also written by Dan Howard, being in the armour section of LT, right?)

It does cause some minor quirks, such as Cutting Innate Attacks suddenly becoming less desirable, but that's a somewhat different matter. I suppose it could be easily fixed by declaring that the effect only applies to mundane weapons.
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