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Old 12-29-2021, 09:32 PM   #20
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: should there actually be "indestructible" weapons?

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Originally Posted by Varyon View Post
I'm not certain what you mean by "linear in area," here. My assumption is that the DR of GURPS force screens scale with weight (of the generator) and surface area (of the projected field) in the same manner as the DR of armor does, because that's the way force screens in GURPS Spaceships scale.
Force screens do not explicitly multiply their weight by area in Spaceships, it just scales DR with SM. Ultratech p191 seems to use a scaling of DR*radius, though my preferred formula is DR^2*radius.
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