08-23-2020, 11:12 PM | #111 | |
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Re: Damage Resistance: How Noticeable Is It By Default
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Extra Arms have an obvious "oh look, he can use extra arms, that is advantageous" so why not DR too? |
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08-23-2020, 11:15 PM | #112 |
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Re: Damage Resistance: How Noticeable Is It By Default
DR can have that. It's just not worth any points in itself. Let's consider the positives and negatives of obvious DR. On the one hand you can't take people by total surprise with your DR (although they'd just be guessing at how protective it actually ise). On other, if you are obviously a rock monster, then you can use that for intimidation against people who aren't armed for it. I'd say it's pretty even.
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08-24-2020, 12:00 AM | #113 | ||
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Yes, GURPS books present character sheets with unmodified DR where the DR is pretty clearly meant to be invisible. But you also said that if it's visible you should take a limitation. And there are many examples of DR that is visible, and no limitation is applied. You can, as Anthony notes, find both those things in the same book quite easily. That's the part of what you said that isn't, in fact, how GURPS as written does things. Quote:
I am arguing at length that that is a terrible rules choice. Not that it isn't true.
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08-24-2020, 12:53 AM | #114 |
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Re: Damage Resistance: How Noticeable Is It By Default
While I don't consider having concealed power useless, it's fair to say that it isn't very well correlated with the point cost of the advantage, so the GURPS standard of "give it Social Stigma: looks like a walking tank" isn't horrible.
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08-24-2020, 01:21 AM | #115 | |
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Personally, I'm particularly negative on the Social Stigma angle because I do not tend to assume that such characters will in fact be stigmatized. I am much more inclined to a setting where you can be a dragon bigger than a bus and best attacked with anti-tank weapons, and also be a fully respectable member of society
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08-24-2020, 08:21 AM | #116 | |
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Re: Damage Resistance: How Noticeable Is It By Default
H68 is interesting for 2DR (Tough Skin) "thick, almost rubbery, white skin," and H84 Serpent Folk have the same,
Something like "your skin is thick" might only be discernable by touch though. Or maybe it is visible like scales? H88 also which I referenced earlier for anyone curious: Appearance (Monstrous; Accessibility, Only when ablative DR is reduced by half, -40%) [-12];They don't have any low/no sig enhancements on the DR and presumably can pass for human so long as ablative DR is kept up. Since the hardened DR is presumably underneath the ablative DR, this would mean they're pretty easy to uncover with damage (unless wearing armor) and since they're unhealing would need repairs to recover lost ablative DR. The advantage to having ablative on top of non-ablative is it protects the non-ablative from Corrosion Attack loss, I guess? I'm wondering if we could do something the other way around too, like if DR made you beautiful but you were ugly underneath, you might have an appearance advantage which only worked at above 50% DR ? There's no mention of metal detectors being able or unable to detect their endoskeleton, so I'm not sure how you'd rule on that. I don't even know what trait would represent 'made of metal, airports and magnets will cause you problems' tbh Quote:
UT211: "A careful tactile examination, a diagnostic bed, or a medscanner can detect the armor," On an unrelated note: Smart Tattoos right below that is pretty interesting... Distinctive Features is usually a quirk disadvantage, but Switchable -10% as a mitigator reduces it to -0.9 which rounds up to zero... Except... based on PU2, shouldn't a "Controllable Disadvantage" like this actually be a Perk? |
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08-24-2020, 09:48 AM | #117 | |
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