Re: [HoE] [SHANE] A Burning Question

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

>An electrical attack should do less damage if your wearing metallic armor
>because the current (the stuff that fries your insides) would mostly flow
>through the less resistive path, which would be the armor. One visual
>example of this is that if you are in a car and a power line falls on it,
>you should be safe inside, unless of course the sparks ignite your petrol.

However - the energy is still the same, and once it's distributed
throughout the armor, it will then have to go somewhere - and unless the
armor is designed to disperse electrons, it's going into the body.

The reason the power line/car example works is because there is a complete
metal frame around the people, and the people (better) have no direct
contact with the metal, allowing the electricity to arc to the ground and
dissipate.

That brings to mind a possibility - armor vs. specific damage types only.
Kinetic would be the norm, so wouldn't have any bonus, but armor vs. fire
or electricity should be worth a +1 or a +2 limitation (in Champions speak
- which the whole Junker phenomenon reminds me of)
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Allan Seyberth
darious@darious.com

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