When I talked about scaling DR by Tech Level, or perhaps simply showing diminishing returns, I drew a comment by +Michael Wolf that brought up some new thoughts. There’s Nothing About Point-Buy That Isn’t Meta On the one hand, he called it too meta. I disagree with this characterization, because assigning point values to things is about as…
Armor as dice is a good way of simplifying and speeding some aspects of GURPS combat. It makes it pretty easy to determine if an attack penetrates armor – do the damage dice exceed the armor dice? If yes, injury occurs. If not, it doesn’t. Simple and binary. Maybe too much so. In my Alien…
Sort of in response to another thread on the forums. But this time, I’m wondering if I can use my favorite thing in the whole GURPS world to answer a question about scaling DR with tech level. Damage Resistance At 5 points per level, DR is fairly expensive. It’s 1.6x more than Fatigue Points and…