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Old 05-06-2017, 12:01 PM   #3
Ulzgoroth
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Default Re: High Amounts of non penetrating damage. Bullets VS Plate Carriers

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Originally Posted by Rasna View Post
Using blunt trauma rules, if the bullet fails to penetrate flexible armor, it deals 1 point of blunt trauma injury every 10 points of piercing damage (also applies to cutting and impaling damage). So, a 30 damage hit would inflict 3 points of damage because the blunt trauma.
Plate carriers aren't flexible armor, though. There is no blunt trauma through non-flexible armor, and trauma plates aren't flexible.

You might make a house-rule that trauma plates (and similar small rigid plates) count as flexible for blunt trauma purposes if worn without sufficient backing material...
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