DR and Blunt Trauma..?

lostrobertsandwich · 07-25-2011, 08:13 PM

"For every full 10 points of cutting, impaling, or piercing damage or 5 points of crushing damage stopped by your DR, you suffer 1 HP of injury due to blunt trauma...

If even one point of damage penetrates your flexible DR, however, you do not suffer blunt trauma."

I don't get this. Let's assume a humongous bullet of 100 damage is coming towards you. You're wearing a flexible vest made of "non-Newtonian golden spider silk" that has 100 DR. So the vest barely stops the bullet but you lose 10 hp due to trauma. Fine.
Now a (nearly) identical bullet comes but deals 101 damage, vs. your DR of 100. You take a single point of penetrating damage, nothing else, no blunt trauma, according to RAW. Why?
Is this addressed in any book? Has someone house-ruled it?
Should I just address it as maybe (for this example) 10 points of blunt trauma, and 1 point of normal piercing damage?

07-25-2011, 08:13 PM	#1
lostrobertsandwich Join Date: Nov 2010	DR and Blunt Trauma..? "For every full 10 points of cutting, impaling, or piercing damage or 5 points of crushing damage stopped by your DR, you suffer 1 HP of injury due to blunt trauma... If even one point of damage penetrates your flexible DR, however, you do not suffer blunt trauma." I don't get this. Let's assume a humongous bullet of 100 damage is coming towards you. You're wearing a flexible vest made of "non-Newtonian golden spider silk" that has 100 DR. So the vest barely stops the bullet but you lose 10 hp due to trauma. Fine. Now a (nearly) identical bullet comes but deals 101 damage, vs. your DR of 100. You take a single point of penetrating damage, nothing else, no blunt trauma, according to RAW. Why? Is this addressed in any book? Has someone house-ruled it? Should I just address it as maybe (for this example) 10 points of blunt trauma, and 1 point of normal piercing damage?