Re: [HOE] Miscellaneous armor question [SHANE]

[Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>]

On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 06:06  PM, Robert Holland wrote:

>> To me it seems like the rule that even one level of AP on an attack 
>> negates any amount of soft armor is the source of alot of special 
>> cases (like magical soft armor) and situations that just don't make 
>> sense (a thick wall of leather with an AV of -50, no problem got my 
>> 2D4 - AP 1 Derringer here, the wall doesn't even slow the bullet 
>> while a 6D12 cannon round (with no AP) would likely be stopped 
>> completely.
> How often are you likely to run into a foot-thick wall of solid 
> leather? In the
> extremely unlikely case that this happened, instead of trying to fudge 
> it with
> the personal armor rules, I'd look at the armor level chart (HOE97) 
> and assign
> it, say, AV 3 (4-6" of solid wood, thin metal).

Great,,, now I have an impossible to banish image of the Reckoners and 
the abomination of bondage gear.