GURPS Fading Suns Conversion

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Originally Posted by Jürgen Hubert

5 seems to low to me, since adding some decent ultra-tech body glove will make someone pretty much invulnerable, as long as the shield holds.

You could declare that the screen doesn't trigger for melee weapons, but really, if the target has access to damage-reducing force screens and ultra-tech armor, why shouldn't it be invulnerable to standard melee weapons? The ultra-tech armor alone should be pretty good for stopping most melee attacks anyway.

Ultra-tech melee weapons, I'll note, might fare better. For example, something with an armor divisor (for example, UT's superfine and monowire blades) is still going to shrug off lightweight physical armor. I might apply the energy screen's DR and trigger conditions to base damage, not damage bonuses from weapon quality, so if, say, a superfine weapon comes through a force screen, it still has that +2 damage.