Damage Resistance (Blunt Trauma Only)

[Dalren]

Is there a modifier for Damage Resistance that makes it work only to reduce blunt trauma? If not, what category would it fall under for Limited Defenses?

[Langy]

At most it'd probably be a -80% limitation. Blunt Trauma isn't exactly a huge threat.

[Humabout]

It is if you use the edge protection rules from low tech

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Humabout

It is if you use the edge protection rules from low tech

That's crushing damage not blunt trauma from flexible armor, which is what I think OP means.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Dalren

Is there a modifier for Damage Resistance that makes it work only to reduce blunt trauma?

Probably -80% (the difference between flexible and regular DR), but it will be applied before computing blunt trauma -- i.e. if you get hit for 22 points of piercing damage (blunt trauma 2) and you have 2 points of 'blunt trauma' DR, it will reduce the 22 to 20 and then divide by 10 as normal, meaning you still take 2 points of blunt trauma injury.

[Nereidalbel]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Probably -80% (the difference between flexible and regular DR), but it will be applied before computing blunt trauma -- i.e. if you get hit for 22 points of piercing damage (blunt trauma 2) and you have 2 points of 'blunt trauma' DR, it will reduce the 22 to 20 and then divide by 10 as normal, meaning you still take 2 points of blunt trauma injury.

Unless it's only meant to protect against the blunt trauma of flexible armor, meaning DR 2, Blunt Trauma Only would reduce Blunt Trauma injury by 2. Great against Pi damage, but sub-optimal against Crushing damage.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

Unless it's only meant to protect against the blunt trauma of flexible armor, meaning DR 2, Blunt Trauma Only would reduce Blunt Trauma injury by 2.

Damage resistance has no effect on injury. In order to reduce blunt trauma, you must reduce the damage that generates the injury.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

Unless it's only meant to protect against the blunt trauma of flexible armor, meaning DR 2, Blunt Trauma Only would reduce Blunt Trauma injury by 2. Great against Pi damage, but sub-optimal against Crushing damage.

Great to keep Ironman from turning into Campbell's can of chunky hero.

[Barghaest]

Could always make it a form of Injury Tolerance or Resistance.

I'd use the base cost of DR, but since it only applies to injury, there'd be a discount but not as much as you'd expect because it'd be offset by the enhancement of doing something DR doesn't normally do... protect vs injury instead of initial attack damage.

I'd see it as about 2-3/point of Blunt Trauma protection.

Of course, I could also see a 5 point advantage to be immune to blunt trauma (since that's the cost of No Blood which negates the bleeding mechanic which is even less situational than Blunt Trauma - also the cost of Ambidexterity which negates off-hand penalties).

If you still want to go with DR... I'd say 1/point however it would only kick in to reduce initial attack damage (which calculated blunt trauma)... so you'd need 10 points of it to stop 1 blunt trauma and it's useless if the attack would normally penetrate DR anyway... of course by this logic you could just set 10/point and not have to do math and apply it directly to reducing Blunt Trauma damage...

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Barghaest

Could always make it a form of Injury Tolerance or Resistance.

I'd use the base cost of DR, but since it only applies to injury, there'd be a discount

Injury reduction is probably a Cosmic +300%.

In any case, there's a simple way to work out proper cost: DR 10 normally costs [50]. DR 10 (flexible) costs [40], and causes you to be vulnerable to blunt trauma and to certain types of grappling moves. Blunt trauma resistance 1 completely eliminates the penalty of flexible against piercing/etc, but still leaves you partially vulnerable to crushing and fully vulnerable to grappling, so figure it's worth [3] or [4].