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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DeeEight" data-source="post: 3327568" data-attributes="member: 49601">Most of our gaming group also plays paintball together, and you see the same "I'm invincible" thinking of these players with high level characters during actual paintball games, when they go a string of games without being hit really (or hit badly anyways). I got nailed about a dozen times in one game, and hellhound had to tell me to yell "hit" because I'd totally zoned out and was just stunned that someone who shall we say, isn't typically as good a paintballer had hit me, let alone kept hitting me. Especially as I'm rolling backwards across the hayloft of the barn.Of course in paintball, there's always a certain amount of body armor involved (much like with characters in RPGs). At the very least, there's safety masks and goggles (because you CAN lose an eye in the sport) and then people often wear other armor over areas they've had shot before. Full finger gloves, padded vests, shin/knee guards, elbow guards, etc. Take away the guns and give the guy a broadsword and wooden shield and you can go a LARPing right after paintball. Anyways, we had one player (of both RPGs and paintball) who is a BIG fellow... we're talking 6'6 and 300 pounds, and its not muscle...its blubber. The only armor he usually wore (other than the mask) was gloves and a cup. And he'd just stand there with a pump gun as everyone else is using semi or full auto guns. He'd aim, shoot, taunt you, aim, shoot... and he was a good shot, but he never feared getting shot because the balls don't have enough impact force to hurt him thru his fat. Then one day he forgot to wear the cup. And murphy's law took over and guess where the ball hit him when he did his "I'm invincible" stance during a game.Or you can take as an example, the player who stood inside a crevice among some stacked haybales, with only his gun and head sticking out. PC's will do this in gaming adventures also... reasoning is the same, see what I'm shooting at, very small target to shoot back at, and I've got armor there (a mask, or your helm of protection or whatever). Doesn't mean the guys attacking you might find the weak point in your armor though. In the paintball game it was putting a ball DIRECTLY over the part of the mask covering his mouth. The armor did what it was supposed to, it stopped the ball... unfortunetly stopping the ball means breaking it, and the paint and ball fragments are still doing 250fps as they pass thru the small vents in the mask you need to breath thru.... right over the lips. And of course, murphy's law and players not learning the first time, during the next game he hid in the same place, and wouldn't you know it, got shot in the SAME spot again. After that he stopped hiding in places/ways that the only thing we could shoot at was his face.</blockquote>

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