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<blockquote data-quote="Mr Fidgit" data-source="post: 490597" data-attributes="member: 6968">another way to handle it may be by using the object's hardness and hit points as a factor, letting any damage caused by a weapon that exceeds the object's hit points to do the remainder of the damage to whatever is on the other side...a person is standing behind a 'normal' wooden door (hardness 5, hp 10), using the door as three-quarters cover (+7 bonus to defense). the person's Defense is normally 15. if the shooter misses the person by a number in the range of the cover bonus (i.e. the shooter rolls a 15-21 - which would hit the person if they didn't have cover), he will strike the door instead. if the shooter's weapon damage exceeds the door's hardness and hit points (15), and extra damage is dealt to the targetin this example, most guns wouldn't be able to penetrate the door, but i think it still works well as an example. if you've ever seen old doors that are actually made of solid wood, i belive they could deflect or resist most damage from firearms. now, if you have doors in your apartment or house like mine, they aren't solid wood, and are really fairly flimsy (i've seen a guy punch through doors like this - with no damage to himself!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mr Fidgit, post: 490597, member: 6968"] another way to handle it may be by using the object's hardness and hit points as a factor, letting any damage caused by a weapon that exceeds the object's hit points to do the remainder of the damage to whatever is on the other side... a person is standing behind a 'normal' wooden door (hardness 5, hp 10), using the door as three-quarters cover (+7 bonus to defense). the person's Defense is normally 15. if the shooter misses the person by a number in the range of the cover bonus (i.e. the shooter rolls a 15-21 - which would hit the person if they didn't have cover), he will strike the door instead. if the shooter's weapon damage exceeds the door's hardness and hit points (15), and extra damage is dealt to the target in this example, most guns [I]wouldn't[/I] be able to penetrate the door, but i think it still works well as an example. if you've ever seen old doors that are actually made of solid wood, i belive they could deflect or resist most damage from firearms. now, if you have doors in your apartment or house like mine, they aren't solid wood, and are really fairly flimsy (i've seen a guy punch through doors like this - with no damage to himself!) [/QUOTE]

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