[UT] Plasma Torch vs. big metal door on a spaceship?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Joseph Paul

Fred - here is the video I saw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsqFS7bbaMc

I would like to know how GURPS is supposed to stat something like this without it being a high damage paradigm.

For a thing which is essentially unusable as a weapon I would not give it weapon stats. Its' "stats" would be ""makes cuts in common industrial metals of thickness x at rate y".

There isn't really a lot of reason to give it game stats or even describe its' workings in terms of combat Turns.