Realistic Human DR

[Polydamas]

Originally Posted by malloyd

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

I think that most people would agree that the effects of single injuries on a human-like character in GURPS is usually plausible and moderately specific ("left arm crippled and Major Bleeding" not "fracture of the radius and ulna at the ... with damage to the ... arteries"). We can contrast this with eg. damage in D&D where its never even clear what a "hit" means or how we should visualized someone surviving a fireball.

Given that baseline, we can move on to ask whether the effect of modified DR would be plausible.