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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2519735" data-attributes="member: 13164">That's what I do in Pledge of Tyranny–I use vitality/wounds, so armor provides DR against wound damage, or in other words "real hits."  If you are wearing full plate, you get 1d4+4 DR against any given attack which deals wound damage.  Some weapons (such as crossbows and firearms) have an Armor Piercing (AP) rating which is subracted from armor DR value.  I set the AP rating for all crossbows at -5.  On an average damage roll, a light crossbow deals 4.5 damage.  On an average armor roll, full plate provides a DR rating of 6.5.  That means that most light crossbow bolts will fail to overcome full plate's DR without the AP rating.  With it, said attack would deal 3 wound damage as it punched straight through the poor target's armor.These rules are nice because they provide a way to counter high DR ratings (this is a high-magic setting, unusual for vp/wp), and they don't make the crossbow any deadlier than a bow against unarmored targets.If making a variant of these rules for a standard hit point and armor system, I would rule that a hand or light crossbow gains up to a +2 bonus to attack rolls against targets wearing armor or gaining an armor bonus from a spell or magic item (but never more than the armor bonus of that armor), and heavy or great crossbows can extend the bonus as high as +4.  Shields would be unaffected.</blockquote>