CrimsonYaegar
Villager
As title implies, there's a paragraph on page 84 of the NOW 1.2 book that say "Soak only applies to attacks which target Melee or Ranged Defense (not Mental Defense), with the exception of Soak that specifically works against psychic or psionic damage" in the Resistance sidebar.
With no mention of Vital Defense, I was wondering if Soak applied to that as well, making things that do AoE damage or otherwise target Vital defense (Spells, grenades, Called Shots, etc) do their full damage.
If it is soaked, is it treated like environmental protection soak that only works if specified, like the hazmat specifically calls out radiation.
If it's not soaked, does it just bypass armor soak, and still use soaks given from exploits or use natural soak?
Bonus question: If something affects an area, is it assumed to target Vital Defense unless otherwise specified even if the weapon itself would normally target another defense?
Example being the Strafe exploit vs the Spray exploit vs the Scattershot exploit.
Strafe makes no mention of which defense, so by rules it should be against the affected targets' Vital defense?
Spray takes what would normally be an AoE and instead makes it target Ranged Defense because it specifically says so.
Scattershot says it targets another creature, but not that it makes it an AoE, so it should still target ranged defense?
With no mention of Vital Defense, I was wondering if Soak applied to that as well, making things that do AoE damage or otherwise target Vital defense (Spells, grenades, Called Shots, etc) do their full damage.
If it is soaked, is it treated like environmental protection soak that only works if specified, like the hazmat specifically calls out radiation.
If it's not soaked, does it just bypass armor soak, and still use soaks given from exploits or use natural soak?
Bonus question: If something affects an area, is it assumed to target Vital Defense unless otherwise specified even if the weapon itself would normally target another defense?
Example being the Strafe exploit vs the Spray exploit vs the Scattershot exploit.
Strafe makes no mention of which defense, so by rules it should be against the affected targets' Vital defense?
Spray takes what would normally be an AoE and instead makes it target Ranged Defense because it specifically says so.
Scattershot says it targets another creature, but not that it makes it an AoE, so it should still target ranged defense?
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