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<blockquote data-quote="MonkeyBoy" data-source="post: 477751" data-attributes="member: 1229">RolemasterNow, lets be up front; I hate rolemaster. Its&nbsp; a hideosly over complex system.But, the core concept of its armor system is this;Heavier armor makes you EASIER to hit. But heavier armor ensures that those hits will be less severe.So, in light / no armor you expect a lucky hit to cripple you, whereas in heavy armor you expect a whole succession of &quot;nibbles&quot; to wear you down. (e.g. multiple dagger stabs)Of course, it helps if you don't have a linear progression of damage capacity for the characters.Essentially; D&amp;D uses the abstraction of a to hit roll representing a &quot;damaging hit&quot;, armor reducing damage is a facet of the abstractions used by other games, where a to hit roll represents &quot;any hit&quot;.You need to alter an awful lot of rules to make armor giving DR work well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MonkeyBoy, post: 477751, member: 1229"] [b]Rolemaster[/b] Now, lets be up front; I hate rolemaster. Its a hideosly over complex system. But, the core concept of its armor system is this; Heavier armor makes you EASIER to hit. But heavier armor ensures that those hits will be less severe. So, in light / no armor you expect a lucky hit to cripple you, whereas in heavy armor you expect a whole succession of "nibbles" to wear you down. (e.g. multiple dagger stabs) Of course, it helps if you don't have a linear progression of damage capacity for the characters. Essentially; D&D uses the abstraction of a to hit roll representing a "damaging hit", armor reducing damage is a facet of the abstractions used by other games, where a to hit roll represents "any hit". You need to alter an awful lot of rules to make armor giving DR work well. [/QUOTE]

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