Internal Fragmentation damage?

AmesJainchill · 12-08-2007, 11:26 PM

How do I determine how many pieces of shrapnel hit someone when the explosion is internal?

vicky_molokh · 12-09-2007, 12:54 AM

I think the logical answer is 'most of them, excluding those exiting the original projectile's orifice'.

Blood Legend · 12-09-2007, 01:04 AM

"He's dead jim..."

Roll 3d; that many.

AmesJainchill · 12-09-2007, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Molokh

I think the logical answer is 'most of them, excluding those exiting the original projectile's orifice'.

Yes. I know that. But the code in brackets is the damage.

How do I figure out how many pieces of shrapnel there are? Did I miss that?

Kelly Pedersen · 12-09-2007, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by AmesJainchill

How do I figure out how many pieces of shrapnel there are? Did I miss that?

As far as I can tell, there's simply no forumula to determine exact numbers of shrapnel - it's simply "everyone within 5 * dice of fragmentation damage yards is vulnerable".
What I would do is assume that someone with internal fragmentation damage simply took 3 times the normal frag damage - this keeps it in line with the rules for explosions.

AmesJainchill · 12-09-2007, 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen

As far as I can tell, there's simply no forumula to determine exact numbers of shrapnel - it's simply "everyone within 5 * dice of fragmentation damage yards is vulnerable".
What I would do is assume that someone with internal fragmentation damage simply took 3 times the normal frag damage - this keeps it in line with the rules for explosions.

Thank you.

That...still makes the Webley .442 SAPLE bullet in High Tech ridiculously lethal.

And the shrapnel is effective against Unliving targets!

Blood Legend · 12-09-2007, 01:43 AM

Aren't SAPLE rounds fired from aircraft?

fredtheobviouspseudonym · 12-09-2007, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by AmesJainchill

That...still makes the Webley .442 SAPLE bullet in High Tech ridiculously lethal.

And the shrapnel is effective against Unliving targets!

IIRC the problem with late 19th century explosive bullets was that most of the time they did NOT explode in animal (or human) targets.

Fuses of the era were fussy enough without them being a.) miniaturized and b.) having to detonate in that variable-density mass that is a living target.

So if it does go off, ooh-nasty. But I would make it fail to go off most of the time.

12-08-2007, 11:26 PM	#1
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12-09-2007, 12:54 AM	#2
vicky_molokh GURPS FAQ Keeper Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kyïv, Ukraine	Re: Internal Fragmentation damage? I think the logical answer is 'most of them, excluding those exiting the original projectile's orifice'. __________________ Vicky 'Molokh', GURPS FAQ and uFAQ Keeper

12-09-2007, 01:04 AM	#3
Blood Legend Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Fine Line Between Black and White	Re: Internal Fragmentation damage? "He's dead jim..." Roll 3d; that many. __________________ . ( )( ) -This is The Overlord Bunny o(O.o)o -Master of Bunnies O('')('') -And Destroyer of the Hasenpfeffer "This is the sort of relatively small error that destroys planetary probes." ~Bruno

12-09-2007, 01:43 AM	#7
Blood Legend Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Fine Line Between Black and White	Re: Internal Fragmentation damage? Aren't SAPLE rounds fired from aircraft? __________________ . ( )( ) -This is The Overlord Bunny o(O.o)o -Master of Bunnies O('')('') -And Destroyer of the Hasenpfeffer "This is the sort of relatively small error that destroys planetary probes." ~Bruno