This is technically the correct interpretation, however I believe the rof would have been 27 if they had dumped the full rof into the target.
However do not forget a *very* important rule here. Even if all the damage was stopped by the chain and scales, I believe both are considered flexible armor. Which means you divide the total damage by 5 (since it was crushing damage inflicted instead of pi damage) and that does penetrate the armor as back (blunt) force trauma. So that 4d+4 damage averages 18pts of damage or just short of 4pt through the DR (60 effective DR). At the full rof this gets much worse. 13d+13 averages 58.5 damage or just short of 12 after armor. I do realize this doesn't seem to jive with what we would expect from a contacting shot from 12 gauge .00 buck. I have been tempted to house rule that at 1% of the 1/2 damage range to treat the damage as one projectile doing ( (rof) / 2 ) * (normal damage) but increase the pi damage by one step to a max of pi++. This does *not* increase the effective DR vs the shot. So in your case it would have been (4D+4 (avg 18) - 15 (regular DR) ) * 1.5 (pi+ damage mult) or an average of 5 points of bleeding damage. Not a big sounding change until you consider the option of targeting vitals or brain from contact (target location multipliers supersede the normal damage multipliers). I haven't played these rules yet but they have been tempting me. I also haven't decided what to do about flechete imp damage. Clint One of the crew got ahold of an automatic shotgun (rof 3x9 dam 1d+1 pi). He used it against a draconian knight (very tough crossbreed human and dragon). The draconian has a total DR of 15 (5 from magical chainmail and 10 from natural thick scales). In GURPS Basic p. 409, under the heading "Shotguns and Multiple Projectiles"... it says at ranges less than 10% of 1/2D to multiply both basic damage dice and the target's DR by half the value of RoF. In this case that would be the target's DR goes from 15 to 60?!? (RoF 3x9, half of 9 is 4.5, round to 4.... 4*15 = 60) Is this a correct interpretation of the rules as written? Was it meant to be this way? _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
