Realistic Human DR

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by stranger38

Help me out guys.
Martial arts says something about DR Tough skin 1 and ablative 1.

But does not say which are realistic. Or neither version is?

*Damage* isn't realistic. That pretty well prevents making any kind of call about things that modify it like DR.

I mean seriously, a single additive tally that tells you whether something has been struck enough to be dead seems plausible to you? I was a slightly better approximation in its original wargame form, as a representation of fraction of men in a unit killed, and it's not terrible for attritional fights like age of sail warships, but it's just not even close for individuals, even with all the add ons like bleeding or Major Wounds or hit location modifiers GURPS sticks on it to improve it.