Doug's Musical Ability, in GURPS

[Bob Schroeck]

Not 100% sure I understand the ramifications.

Armor comes in two varieties: Suits you put on like Iron Man, and thick skin/plates/scales/what have you that are actually part of your body. Device armor has to be repaired (I don't remember the rules for that off the top of my head) while natural armor has to be healed.

So, Doug’s PolyKev, provides 30 points of ablative armor in V&V?

And, it regenerates at 1+1 points per day?

No, Doug's polykev is a V&V Invulnerability device, which is different from Armor. Armor is ablative, and affects all attacks (theoretically). Invulnerability simply lets the character ignore the first X points of damage he takes in a combat round.

Quick'n'dirty example to make it clearer:

Consider two supers: Captain Armor and Mr. Invulnerable. Captain Armor has 100 points of armor. Mr. I has 25 points of Invulnerability.

During the course of one combat round, they are both hit with 6 attacks doing 10 points each. Neither rolls with the damage.

Mr. I ignores the first two hits, and takes five points off the damage he receives from the third. The rest affect him normally. He takes 45 35 points of damage.  (Edit: Stupid math error!)

When the first of the six attacks hits, Captain Armor rolls % dice against the current rating of his armor. As his armor is currently at 100 points, he succeeds; instead of taking 10 HP off, the damage instead is applied to his armor, reducing it to 90. Repeat through all the attacks. Most of the time, he'll actually take about 21 points of damage while the armor suffers 39 points.

Does that help?

It’s a chupacabra, sir!

Or the pikachupacabra, the dread electric goat-sucker of the Amazon!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.