Is temperature tolerance really that expensive?

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by vitruvian

In the GURPS rule set, hotter fires do more dice

A steam hex is treated as doing the same damage as a fire hex, despite the fact that a hex of steam is likely under 300°F and the hex of fire is likely above 1000°F. Lava has about the same temperature as a bonfire, but does far more damage. A tight beam burning attack doing the same raw damage as a fire hex is probably above 3000°F.

Originally Posted by vitruvian

And no, DR on a character writeup (so how many inches of mild steel or whatever we're talking about is irrelevant unless you're statting up a tank) is about damage resistance that's invariant with regard to time of exposure, unless it's Ablative.

Nothing in the text of DR implies that it's categorically different from other types of armor, and it certainly can represent X inches of mild steel or whatever -- a typical robot, for example.