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[Kromm]

Originally Posted by LemmingLord

More realism would be to consider these things automatically causing their affects unless you've purchased specific resistance to them.

Not hardly. I used to read this. A recurring theme in many studies was precisely the opposite of what you just said. The results of most hits by weapons, lethal or less-lethal, are so unpredictable as to make studies done by enforcement agencies on their lethality and reliability doubtful and untrustworthy. The fact is, someone can be punched, stabbed, shocked, shot, burned, or whatever in the same spot with the same weapon 10 times and get 10 different results. The so-called "stopping power" of most weapons and techniques is largely propaganda supported by cherry picking the desired lethal or less-than-lethal outcomes from large data sets, as has been demonstrated repeatedly.

Games – with their variable wounding effects rolled on dice – are better models of reality than flat-effect models.