01-23-2018, 02:26 PM | #11 | ||
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Re: Completely left-field question...
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01-23-2018, 02:33 PM | #13 |
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Re: Completely left-field question...
Okay, lol for that one.
DR 6 is literally on par with plate armor. Allosaurus was less massive and certainly less robust than a white rhino. Weight estimates seem to fit the range for black rhinos. I don't think many would give them even light "bulletproof" skin.
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01-23-2018, 02:35 PM | #14 |
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Re: Completely left-field question...
I'm curious for the evidence of that, but feel research on the subject would be too depressing.
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01-23-2018, 02:42 PM | #15 |
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Re: Completely left-field question...
The main argument is that GURPS gives a plank of wood and the HMS Victory the same DR, but the ship's structure still impedes cannonballs heading into interior spaces. Big thick slabs of things aren't really a thin layer of armor and a whole lot of breakable stuff, the whole thing acts like armor.
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01-23-2018, 02:54 PM | #16 |
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Re: Completely left-field question...
That's the whole unliving and homogeneous difference in Hit Points though.
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01-23-2018, 03:06 PM | #17 | |
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Re: Completely left-field question...
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Merely being unliving doesn't seem sufficient for many real world things. The real Victory won't sink from a few dozen hits, unlike it's GURPS counterpart (without "Extreme Damage"). |
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01-23-2018, 04:49 PM | #18 |
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Re: Completely left-field question...
Well, to give an example, a Cog is DR 5 and 147 hp, which means a ST 10 guy with an axe (1d+4 with an all-out attack) can disable it in around fifty hits. Now, that might actually be true if he's just pounding on a single point making a hole, but the rules let him just hack randomly at the ship and do that, and, well, you aren't going to shred 25 tons of wood in fifty hits.
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