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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1734631" data-attributes="member: 5171">Well, mileage will vary, I s'pose.For my money again, the value of a given roleplaying system isn't in whether or not you can break it, but whether the unbroken area covers the majority of play.&nbsp; From that perspective, d20 Modern is fine.&nbsp; If a bunch of historians want to come in and say that full plate worked great against a thrusting greatsword (or whatever the long thrusting swords that they used against full plate were) but would be like tissue paper if a bullet hit it, that's totally good with me.&nbsp; Until then, my money is on the assumption that full plate actually does a decent job of stopping the average bullet -- which is to say, a glancing shot.&nbsp; The reason it went out of style was because rifles got a lot easier to make than people who could handle themselves in full plate, and because not every shot is a glancing shot, and you can put a whole bunch of rifleman on the field...But my copy of &quot;Guns, Germs, and Steel&quot; is still sitting in Borders. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="takyris, post: 1734631, member: 5171"] Well, mileage will vary, I s'pose. For my money again, the value of a given roleplaying system isn't in whether or not you can break it, but whether the unbroken area covers the majority of play. From that perspective, d20 Modern is fine. If a bunch of historians want to come in and say that full plate worked great against a thrusting greatsword (or whatever the long thrusting swords that they used against full plate were) but would be like tissue paper if a bullet hit it, that's totally good with me. Until then, my money is on the assumption that full plate actually does a decent job of stopping the average bullet -- which is to say, a glancing shot. The reason it went out of style was because rifles got a lot easier to make than people who could handle themselves in full plate, and because not every shot is a glancing shot, and you can put a whole bunch of rifleman on the field... But my copy of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is still sitting in Borders. :) [/QUOTE]

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