Armored Wings?
 

With Winged Flight, is the default assumption that they can be armored or not? What would be the value of a trait that alters the default?

Re: Armored Wings?
 

Absent limitations, the DR advantage applies to all locations, but whether you can wear armor is unspecified.

Re: Armored Wings?
 

I mean *wear* armor. And I really should have asked myself this question when I wrote Winged Folk... :embarrassed:

Re: Armored Wings?
 

Dungeon Fantasy 3 says, vis-à-vis Winged Elves, "wings cannot be armored; the options are leaving them exposed or folding them inside armor, making it impossible to fly." I don't know how much one can reliably generalize that, but it gives something concrete at least.

EDIT: From a realism standpoint, it makes sense to require wings to remain unarmored. Even a small amount of ice on an airplane wing can interfere with lift, and of course covering over feathers would have even worse effects.

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A parallel is No Legs (Aquatic), where "If your mobility depends on fins, masts, paddles, or sails that you can't armor . . . -5 points." Wings would seem to be comparable.

Re: Armored Wings?
 

Wings should be possible to armor by default; as they are crippled like Arms, I would use the same stats as Arm Armor for them (and with the same Armor Gap as the armpit; I'd further state this gap can only be targeted from the Side or Rear, assuming wings on the back). Armor for Small Wings should be around half the weight as armor for Wings. If your wings cannot be armored, that's a further Limitation; I'd be inclined to call it -15% on Winged (for a total of -40%) or -10% on Small Wings (total -20%).

Re: Armored Wings?
 

Realistically wings should be impossible to armor without magic or ultratech, but the winged flight limitation isn't clearly priced for it (flight is oddly priced; it's very cheap for an exotic advantage that's as effective as it is).

There should probably be some sort of disadvantage for "can't wear armor (on location X)" but there currently isn't one.

Re: Armored Wings?
 

I’m now flashing on the scene in Falcon and the Winter Soldier in which the Falcon demonstrates that his (technological) wings are not only bulletproof but can be used as a shield. Realism is a genre-related dial.
Shouldn’t be hard to assign one. It’s an Availability modifier, and GMs are trusted to assign those at whim.

Re: Armored Wings?
 

... except there's no Cannot Wear Armor Disadvantage - instead, that's a Limitation that can be applied to a specific Advantage, Damage Resistance (which also means it's worth more the less impact it has on the character - someone with natural DR 1 would get more use out of being able to wear mail than someone with natural DR 20, but for the former the Limitation is worth [-2] - being -40% applied to [5] - while for the latter it's worth [-40] - being -40% applied to [100]).

Re: Armored Wings?
 

The wings themselves are armored (ie. they have DR [Partial: Wings]), he isn't wearing armor on top of natural wings.