[Magic] Differences between Enchantments

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Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

Clothing that has 0 DR breaks and loses its enchantment effect after just a few hits. Success by DB or less on a Shirt of Deflection counts as 1 Penetration, where the attack put a hole in the shirt, without actually hitting the person wearing it. Playable enough for me.

Um what? I think you confusing it with Fortify.

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Armor enchantments clearly only apply to the armor location, otherwise the location discounts wouldn't make any sense at all. It doesn't draw attacks to that location, because it only even applies when that location is targeted.

Yes this makes wonky things happen with DB, but this is because Deflect used to give PD and GURPS Magic 3rd Edition is an often incomplete port of the 2nd edition.

This is actually spelled out somewhere, if using random locations and the target is wearing something that only grants DB to some locations, then roll hit location first, then roll to attack.