"Less-lethal" Gurps

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Lord Azagthoth

Large damage does not always mean the PC takes all damage. A tight beam energy weapon could do several dicex6 of damage while a human only takes a small portion of it. he has a small hole through his muscles but the excess damage is still in the beam that passed through him and hit another target behind him.

Technically, the Body Hits rule from High Tech does not apply to tight-beam burning damage.

It should, almost certainly, but having it do so is a house rule.

[TGLS]

My copy reads "Whenever an attack that inflicts impaling, piercing, or
tight-beam burning damage" (HT162). So it seems like the body hits rule does apply to tight-beam burning.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by TGLS

My copy reads "Whenever an attack that inflicts impaling, piercing, or
tight-beam burning damage" (HT162). So it seems like the body hits rule does apply to tight-beam burning.

Huh. So it does, I've had that wrong.