Re: Star Wars: Armour and damage: straw poll

On Feb 11, 11:58=A0am, DougL <lampert.d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In A New Hope Leia continues to act quite effectively after being
> rigorously interogated, in Return she continues to fight quite
> effectively after being shot.

Arm/Shoulder hits are basically equal to a paper cut in Hollywood :)

I did completely forget about that scene btw, even through what I was
really after a body shot that someone lived through.


I recall Lucas once saying that the ST armor was intended to protect
from glancing hits (that would I imagine normally produce the effect
seen on Leia), and that it didn't help against direct hits. Since
heroes are more likely to score direct hits, the logic follows. In
HERO terms, ST armor adds a point or two to DCV and very little to
actual armor.


>While R2D2 simply stops working after being hit.

I call him dead, it's just that being a droid allows an easy rez :)


> Binary states: out completely or no penalty. You can argue for Stunned
> based on the immediate aftermath of Leia being shot or Luke having his
> hand cut off. But if so then it's stunned or no penalty.

Stunned or incapped with significant recover time needed before
getting up again. Other than that, it's heroics till the very end.

> HP are a surprisingly good mechanism for what they do.

While they have their drawbacks, they are indeed good at what they do.