Adapting The Morrow Project to GURPS

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

What do you think is a small caliber bullet? A ST10 human only does 1D-2 Thr/Imp with a Knife (1D with AOA strong). DR 4-6 would handle that.

From what I recall†, Resistweave almost completely stops most knife and barehanded damage, is highly resistant to small caliber arms, as well as flame retardant so for a GURPS armor equivalent:

Mix of TL 8 Concealable Vest and DAP limb armor:
DR 8/4 (Piercing & Cutting/Everything), Jacket and pants (8lbs) covers torso and limbs, optional ball cap (1lbs) covers skull, and boots (5lbs).


However, that DR 8 versus cutting has never set well with me*, so personally I'd call it DR 8/4 (Piercing/Everything).


† I actually have The Morrow Project 4e, but I can't remember if the armor was as good in older editions as well. In 4e the resistweave uniforms are practically small arms and melee impervious.

* Mostly because a swung axe should still be crushing bones as easily as a baseball bat or mace, but GURPS has always had kevlar as being super capable of stopping 'larger' cutting damages as well as knife slashes.