12-08-2009, 03:04 AM | #31 | |
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Re: 'Shotguns have dkb/dbt' - where did that myth (?) come from?
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I'm hard-pressed to find the relevance here. Do you mean that because implausible things sometimes happen in the real world, there is no point to scientific research?
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12-08-2009, 05:36 AM | #32 | |
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12-08-2009, 06:47 AM | #33 |
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Re: 'Shotguns have dkb/dbt' - where did that myth (?) come from?
Talking about injury mostly, not knockback...
The rule about blunt trauma, I don't see why it'd be doubled for a shotgun and nothing else. However, there's a larger chance of getting multiples of ten to do trauma when you hit with lot of pellets. The really close range rules are kind of nasty for a shotgun, I'd need to look, but I think you count all of the pellets as one attack for armor purposes. If not, then damage maybe should be counted as a total for blunt trauma? 100 hits each doing 9 points, on a vest with DR10, would do nothing. 100 hits on a vest with DR10 doing 10 points of damage would do no penetrating damage, but 100 points of blunt trauma damage. Seems to me the difference is very minimal for such huge difference in effect. If counted as a total, the first one would do 90 points BT. |
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Sadly it seems to be a little more complicated than I thought, but I should be getting a nice book soon that covers such questions.
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