Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

Hello! I just bought this, and it's indeed convenient. However, it brought to the fore a slight doubt I had about Low-Tech armor.

The impression I had from reading the base rules and this forum was that, while plate armor was listed for the "full" torso hit location, you actually had to buy it with only 75% coverage and use segmented plate on the lower abdomen/groin, which were the remaining 25%.

Now, looking at the armor tables, the very first one is for "Torso, 100%", and it lists plate armor just as the base book does. Does it mean the rule described in the above paragraph is optional?

Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

This was actually covered earlier in the thread. Basically, the Plate Armor that's in the Torso, 100% section is for people who don't use a separate Abdomen hit location - so yes, it's optional, but only if you aren't trying to be fully accurate. If you want complete accuracy, you can't have rigid plate in the abdomen.

Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

So does it or not? I suppose I'm just going to have to buy it (which I was going to eventually anyway) to find out.

Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

It does not have a unified hit location table. On page 16 has the same table as Low Tech page 100.

It is also true that it has a 1d6 sub-location roll for the abdomen on page 19, which includes pelvis and digestive tract hits. But the PDF doesn't include any of the Martial Arts hit locations at all. Except possibly the joints, and it doesn't talk about the joint-hit rules for those.

Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

Was Bruno a playtester? Maybe it was cut? Anyway I still want one of these.

Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

Instant Armor has the same hit location table that is in Low-Tech plus an Abdomen sub-location. It includes the Pelvis location from Tactical Shooting. What else do you need? I needed a Face sub-location table for the Loadouts book - it is consistent with the mechanics in Martial Arts.

Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

A set of tables with all the location and location specific effects from the Basic Set, Martial Arts, High-Tech, Low-Tech, Horror and Tactical Shooting (and I guess now Instant Armor and Historical Loadouts). This would include all previously published "missed by one" and "roll 1d" results. It would be extra cool if the non-humanoid tables from the Basic Set were included and similarly expanded (but obviously I didn't expect this from Instant Armor).

Right now this stuff is scattered all over the place.

Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

I think the same. It would be great to have all that officially unified in a single resource.

Even if many people has the options stored in their heads, such resource would ease and encourage the use of the aforementioned rules –specially for those that find the details and nuances "overwhelming" during the game.

Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

Something more than p. 2 of Onki's free sheet??

I might quibble with the formatting or presentation, but he's done a lot of the work you seem to be requesting.

Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor
 

I honestly haven't looked at that in a while, because when he first did it it wasn't noticeably superior than the mook's sheets and preferred the mook's formatting.