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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 2081470" data-attributes="member: 94">The one thing you got right was the one you stated as rumor; what you stated as fact was incorrect.Complements it.I don't think it's a DUMB idea at all. It's mechanically sound. I just don't care for it myself-- but I tend to run "High Adventure, Low Magic" whereas many folks use GT for "Low Adventure, Low Magic."And conversely, I wouldn't call this a fine idea-- I just sort of threw it out there. If you're using monsters at all, or anything with a natural armor bonus, then you can use the "ballistic = ranged touch attack" provided you ALSO use Armor as Damage Conversion-- so that bullets will still have some effect on, say, a rhinocerous, without necessarily putting the rhino on an equal footing with a naked human.Finally, don't equate DR with Damage Conversion. I think Damage Conversion is superior in all ways to DR as a "fix" for your "grim and gritty" needs. Damage Conversion insures that all successful attacks, from daggers to elephant guns, have some combat effect. With DR, you could end up with an umbrella under which a number of disparate weapons are all equally ignored. There's a place for DR, but it should be a subset of really tough armor, not applied to all armor across the board.Wulf</blockquote>