Re: [HOE] Rules Questions

[Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>]

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 09:07  AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:

> Layering Armor:
>  
> Can you layer armor and if so how does it work. Say I got a character 
> that wants to wear both a boiled leather shirt and a kevlar vest. I 
> ruled at the table that it could be done with in reason (i.e. couldn't 
> wear two kevlar vests for a total AV of 4) and the character would get 
> the benefit of both. So far it hasn't really upset game balance much 
> if at all. What have you other Marshals out there done with this if it 
> has come up in your game?

Offhand, I'd be wary of this. AV4 is pretty powerful... Pistols go from 
the average 3d6 down to nothing!

I'd say the highest value counts, personally, and really punish anyone 
trying anything weird like wearing five pieces of armor on the same 
location. Yes, some kevlar vests are pretty thin, but they are still 
bulky, especially if the trauma plate is used (which adds a lot of 
bulk, if I remember correctly).

Now, and armored duster over a vest doesn't seem like much of a 
problem, but I'd still only go with one piece of armor, or possibly the 
highest piece plus half the value of the lesser piece to prevent 
abusive stacking.

But that's me. Any other opinions?

> Wind Recovery while Bleeding to Death:
> The Doomsayer in our group (the only healer, supernatural or mundane, 
> in the group) took 3 hits from a burst. Two shots hit him in the right 
> leg for 3 wounds each. Since he only had white chips he was only able 
> to soak each wound down to 2, which left him critically wounded in 
> that leg. I rolled for wind and socked it to him for over 36 points, 
> which took him out of the fight. Since he was critically wounded he 
> was also losing 2 wind per minute from bleeding. After the battle, he 
> wanted to make a vigor roll to recover wind so he could act and heal 
> himself. My first question is can he recover wind normally while 
> bleeding or does someone have to stop the bleeding first? Secondly is 
> it a normal Medicine (11) roll with a time of 1d6 hours to stop the 
> bleeding (for a critical wound) or is there something I missed that 
> specifically refers to stopping bleeding.

I think this gets updated in Waste Warriors. I don't have my copy 
handy, though...