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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Weathercock" data-source="post: 6749597" data-attributes="member: 6802523">Well, there are a lot of ways to go about it.One concept I was playing with for a sci-fi setting that I never actually ended up bringing to play involved most medium-to-heavy infantry armour that was highly resistant to conventional physical impacts. In order to do appreciable damage outside the use of extremely heavy and cumbersome ranged weaponry better fit for vehicular use and fixed positions (in this setting, laser weaponry was confined to giant cannon emplacements), super-heated melee weapons would be the preferred tool of choice. But due to the weight and value of the materials required to produce these blades, and that of the power supplies that actually worked to heat them, small arm projectile weapons would not really work in such a manner. In this case, characters wearing medium and heavy armour would end up having resistance to most physical damage types, but heat-based melee weaponry would end up dealing additional damage of an unresisted type (to balance this, light armoured classes would have had resistance to the setting's equivalent to magic).Another way to go might be something more environmental in factor. In the Universal Century Gundam timeline, long ranged combat is stifled due to the Minovsky effect, caused by particles dispersed in warzones that cause communications, tracking, and targeting systems to function unreliably over larger distances (being primarily about space combat, these distances would theoretically be quite large), and can cause long range beam weaponry to function strangely. Because of that, combat in that universe tends to be focused in much more medium-to-close quarters based scenarios.If your setting made use of beam/laser/plasma/etc. style weaponry, or even a heavy reliance on computer assisted targeting systems, you could give characters the ability to disperse fields of particles of a similar fashion, albeit a smaller scale, creating areas where ranged options become more unreliable.</blockquote>

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