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Old 07-21-2011, 02:58 AM   #12
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Default Re: Glass Bottle vs. 9 mm Parabellum

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Originally Posted by Gurps Fan View Post
If "glass is too fragile to be Homogeneous in GURPS terms", then there arises a new problem: Where's the borderline between "Doesn't deserve Homogeneous because of its basic fragility" and "Not fragile enough to be deprived of Homogenous"? Are 2-gallon glass bottles Homogenous or not? How about 58-cubic-inch wodden boxes? (Both on p. 34 of Low-Tech.)
A good question to ask is: If I dropped this item on a wooden floor from waist height (~1 yard), would it break? The bottles likely would, the box (if empty) probably wouldn't (although that might be reflected in it's DR and HP already).
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