Re: (TFT) Rules for armor penalties

[ErolB1@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/24/2006 5:36:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
rsmith@lightspeed.ca writes:


>   These are rules that I've imposed on players from 
> time to time.  They have succeeded in making plate
> armor very rare in my campaign...

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I stick pretty close to the book rules for armor. They're simple, and while 
they might not be accurate or "realistic" they do discourage the wearing of 
heavy armor just to the extent I want. 

I've added "fine leather" and "fine chain" to the possible armor types and 
also chain byrnie (including a "fine" version) and a plate breast & back. These 
are appropriate to my campaign because I am shooting for a deliberately 
swashbuckling sort of game. "Robin Hood meets Gandalf the Grey and the Three 
Musketeers" 

I make massive use of "called shots," prefering them to any sort of "critical 
hit" system. One place where this does indirectly change the rules for armor 
is in making called shots at the chinks & weak points in armor. The basic rule 
I use is to take a Dx penalty for the location (minimum -2 Dx) plus an 
additional -1 Dx for each point of armor bypassed. An "eyeslit" shot against a 
figure wearing 5 pt plate armor is thus -11 Dx: -6 Dx for a called shot to the head 
plus -5 for the plate armor, but a successful hit bypasses the armor and does 
double damage. 
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