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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6621958" data-attributes="member: 92305">Glad you find some of it useful.  That's why I post it, for GMs like you.First, let me say that I don't use all of these tweaks in my game.  In fact, I only use a couple of them.  The rest are really just food for thought.   Different GMs can take what they want and mold the game to their tastes.  That's the idea, anyway.I just wrote that optional rule last night, and this morn, I'm not sure how I feel about it.  Usually I put more thought into the rules, but this one just came to me real quick.  So, I jotted it down.As far as your comment...I did consider Hardness.  But, I don't think that Hardness would absorb damage.  So, my thoughts were more like this....The Shield has Hardness 6 and 6 HP, hit by 28 points of damage.  28 - 6 Hardness = 22 points of damage.  The weapon soaks up 6 points of damage, but Hardness does not.  Hardness is just a resistance.  It takes 12 points of damage to do 6 HP on the shield.Given that thinking, 22 points is delivered to the character.Maybe that approach is too finicky.  I think this rule needs some more work, or thought, anyway.  I like the idea, and I may use it in my game.  But, it's not ready yet.Weapons shouldn't shatter that often, so I don't want them shattering all the time because of this rule.  There's that to consider.Also, I don't want to lessen the impact of the Massive Damage rule and make the overall game less gritty.  My thought was that sometimes a weapon could step in and take some of the damage that a character would take from a Massive Damage blow.I dunno.  This one needs to go back into the oven for a bit.If you hadn't commented, I probably would have deleted the post this morn.</blockquote>

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