GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor

Puppetminion · 12-16-2011, 05:22 AM

Double checking that I understand some things about the Pectoral (pg 20) that aren't explicitly mentioned:
* It always protects the vitals from the front, even on an abdomen or "lower chest"/location 10 hit yes?
* Aiming at the "lower chest" is the same -1 as the "upper chest" and would never hit the pectoral right? Which also means as I see it the stuff about aiming at the upper chest but avoiding the pectoral is not likely to come up all that often.

Some other comments:
I'm surprised the helmet stats don't include the padding. From a "grab and go" and "avoid footnotes" perspective I would have thought only needing 1 set of numbers for head armour would be better, with those who want a seperate padding cap doing a subtraction rather than everyone else doing addition.

Possibly clustering the notes so all the notes that affect DR were together would make it easier to quickly check in play.

When I saw references to mittens I was hoping the table would include chain mittens. Darn. Did they not really ever exist or something?

Also, cool book.

12-16-2011, 05:22 AM	#11
Puppetminion Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia	Re: GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor Double checking that I understand some things about the Pectoral (pg 20) that aren't explicitly mentioned: * It always protects the vitals from the front, even on an abdomen or "lower chest"/location 10 hit yes? * Aiming at the "lower chest" is the same -1 as the "upper chest" and would never hit the pectoral right? Which also means as I see it the stuff about aiming at the upper chest but avoiding the pectoral is not likely to come up all that often. Some other comments: I'm surprised the helmet stats don't include the padding. From a "grab and go" and "avoid footnotes" perspective I would have thought only needing 1 set of numbers for head armour would be better, with those who want a seperate padding cap doing a subtraction rather than everyone else doing addition. Possibly clustering the notes so all the notes that affect DR were together would make it easier to quickly check in play. When I saw references to mittens I was hoping the table would include chain mittens. Darn. Did they not really ever exist or something? Also, cool book.