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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4994647" data-attributes="member: 4937">My suggestion would be to before making all these changes, just play gurps for 3-5 sessions.At that point, one of two things will happen.  Either you'll embrace the greater realism of GURPS and never look back, or else (and I think this more likely) you begin to realize that at some point increased realism just ceases to be worth it.But anyway:1) Fractional bonuses don't really work.  Once you prove this to yourself, you'll realize that its much more realistic if you are going to the trouble of having peicemeal armor to have a called shot system.  A called shot system does work, but it comes at a huge price - high level play becomes insanely lethal and large monsters are inherently pwned. 2) Armor as DR doesn't work either.  The problem is the lack of granularity.  What you typically discover is that an armor wearer finds himself always in one of two situations, either he's invincible or else his armor is essentially meaningless.  You blow out of the water some of the casual realism available at low level play in D20 with armor as DR.  The only way to get armor as DR to work is bigger threat ranges and exploding criticals, which, while realistic also tends to make the game much more lethal.3) Static hit points give players absolutely no buffer against bad luck.  One bad throw kills anyone in the game.  About 5 fights into any game, you've got dead PC's.  Another 5 fights and you've got a TPK.  To resolve this, you have to scale back the challenges, which in turn ends up getting your heroes randomly pwned by a goblin bandit.4) Which in turn will make the armor as DR problem even worse.5) The problem with 'not getting hit' is that it has no margin for error.  It also doesn't deal with things like falling, area damage (an explosion, a collapsing ceiling, etc.), acid baths or other hazards.  Games with armor bonuses and vitality points tend to be very swingy.6) I think this gets unnecessarily complex.  While you can think of any number of factors that should effect pretty much any roll you can imagine, if you are dealing with more than two modifiers your system is probably too complex.7) I've toyed with this myself.  Seems reasonable.8) Cool.9) Sounds like alot of work.10) I'm fine with that.  I don't like LA either.</blockquote>

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