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<blockquote data-quote="dwayne" data-source="post: 6230186" data-attributes="member: 25437"><p>I would say in a modern game DR works very well as a bullet vest or body armor does not work unless it is hit, so you can still suffer impact damage due to even with a vest you can break a rib and have some heavy bruising. Also with the modern d20 it had a defense bonus I always took this to represent your experience in life and verse the things you overcome you learn how to avoid or are just a bit smarted about not getting hit and defense in general. Using the D20 star wars vitality and wound system and armor as dr which makes all weapon damage increase by one step with the massive damage roll (I modified this so the DC is the damage done, makes it very dangerous and gritty, I ran my first game in my darkworld game ,[ a mix of grim, supernatural and angel buffy of a sort,] they split up and two of the PC found the vampires holding the other players sister in game and they just pulled up in front an a PC leaned out the window and yelled at the building cussing the vamps. So the one that was looking out who heard them drive up took aim on the van and when he did this the vamp just shot him with the Remington high powered rifle (3d10) in this and was way over his Mass damage roll so he rolled a save vers damage and failed, taking all hit points and putting him to -1 because the wounds damage was more than his wounds score he almost died as they rushed him to the hospital and will be out of action for at lest a two days as one person is a doctor who has made a lot of chemical substances which do help healing but even with this he still can not even get out of bed for a few days. this worked far better than I had thought until they went back and rammed the van through the front of the warehouse which broke the axle and jammed and bent the side door a few came out through the window and got shot up a bit with the vamps shotguns they exchanged fire and then more of the players came out and the one stated to do a prayer ritual and the other was shooting a flare gun into the shadow areas and on his second round hit one with a flare killing it. the one player who was out first go shot with two shot guns and climbed back into the van to get patched up by the doc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dwayne, post: 6230186, member: 25437"] I would say in a modern game DR works very well as a bullet vest or body armor does not work unless it is hit, so you can still suffer impact damage due to even with a vest you can break a rib and have some heavy bruising. Also with the modern d20 it had a defense bonus I always took this to represent your experience in life and verse the things you overcome you learn how to avoid or are just a bit smarted about not getting hit and defense in general. Using the D20 star wars vitality and wound system and armor as dr which makes all weapon damage increase by one step with the massive damage roll (I modified this so the DC is the damage done, makes it very dangerous and gritty, I ran my first game in my darkworld game ,[ a mix of grim, supernatural and angel buffy of a sort,] they split up and two of the PC found the vampires holding the other players sister in game and they just pulled up in front an a PC leaned out the window and yelled at the building cussing the vamps. So the one that was looking out who heard them drive up took aim on the van and when he did this the vamp just shot him with the Remington high powered rifle (3d10) in this and was way over his Mass damage roll so he rolled a save vers damage and failed, taking all hit points and putting him to -1 because the wounds damage was more than his wounds score he almost died as they rushed him to the hospital and will be out of action for at lest a two days as one person is a doctor who has made a lot of chemical substances which do help healing but even with this he still can not even get out of bed for a few days. this worked far better than I had thought until they went back and rammed the van through the front of the warehouse which broke the axle and jammed and bent the side door a few came out through the window and got shot up a bit with the vamps shotguns they exchanged fire and then more of the players came out and the one stated to do a prayer ritual and the other was shooting a flare gun into the shadow areas and on his second round hit one with a flare killing it. the one player who was out first go shot with two shot guns and climbed back into the van to get patched up by the doc. [/QUOTE]
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