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As I'm into HEMA, re-enactment, etc, I have had a period in my RQ-life where I tried to "improve" the armor-system. I allways thoght that the result ended up beeing too tedious, and not that much more realistic than the original RQ(3) rules.<BR>
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I Agree to the fact that most amor/weapon degeneration is subtle and slow, until a hidden crack, etc. results in a critical failure. Perhaps one way would be that every time someone scores a critical hit to your location, the part becomes inoperable, not nessecarily leading to loss of AP, that would depend on the type of armor. A mail would perhaps split and result in the bodypart beeing hampered (+1 sr), a plate could jam, leading to loss of mobility (-X% to all skill rolls), etc, etc.<BR>
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There is allso the fact that armor operates differently, and different kinds of weapon operates differently on armor, it becomes like an X- Y-diagram, with a thousand different possebilities. Some weapons are designed to damage the armor, whereas a sword is next to useless against plate armor (if two swordmen were to fight eachother in full plate the "fantasy"-way (ie "longplay", it's absolutely possible that both swords would break before any of the armour-parts would) <BR> <BR>
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From: iquinn@surewest.net<BR>To: runequest@rpgreview.net<BR>Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:34:40 -0700<BR>Subject: Re: [Runequest] Drowning, Falling and Poisoning in RuneQuest<BR><BR>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">1) We generally played it that special and critical hits would damage armor sufficiently to lower its overall protection by one point. Furthermore we used the fumble of "shield strap / armor breaks" at random locations to further erode armor over time. Since both cases were not common occurrences (and in the case of a critical to the head, for example, a dented helm is the least of your concerns) it was enough to keep players repairing and replacing their equipment throughout the years.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">2) The rule I recall for natural armor was to simply double the resulting damage, rather than ignore armor completely. While from a mathematical perspective this also caused problematic results in some cases, I preferred it to ignoring armor. So my single stick (max damage of 6) against the 12pt dragon scale would still do no damage even with a critical. For magical defense I always count that against physical damage, the only way around that is with counter magic or some other specific magical attacks.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> runequest-bounces@rpgreview.net [mailto:runequest-bounces@rpgreview.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Styopa<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 13, 2009 5:42 AM<BR><B>To:</B> RuneQuest Rules<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Runequest] Drowning, Falling and Poisoning in RuneQuest</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt">A few random armor questions for folks:<BR><BR>1) I'm curious if anyone has played with the idea of armor damage in the same sense as weapons/shields, ie if the AP is exceeded, it takes 1 AP off until repaired. While my players would probably cry, I have to admit, it sounds a LOT more realistic over time that characters would come out of a hard fight with their armor in shambles - such is almost always the description of medieval battlefields and survivors, anyway. <BR><BR>2) Physical armor, magical armor, natural armor and crits: how do you resolve this in your game? Do you judge that a crit ignores ALL armor points (regardless of type) on a location? Logically I can see how a crit would bypass physical armor certainly, natural armor probably (there are always eyes, unarmored joints, etc), but magical defenses? As regards natural armor, it seems cheesy that something with 12+ points of natural armor could be slain by some schmuck's lucky blow by a normal sword (or arrow; there's always that damn literary example of Smaug...). I seem to recall someone here mentioned a clever system that they had for determining when some things were simply undamageable based on natural armor?<BR><BR></P></DIV><br /><hr />What can you do with the new Windows Live? <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx' target='_new'>Find out</a></body>
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