Modern Armor adjusted for Behind Armor Blunt Damage.

 Following my version of edge protection, here's my take on making modern armor less "all or nothing".

The basic idea is from: https://jetgurps.blogspot.com/ 

The idea for my version is simple: Instead of just turning piercing damage to blunt, which doesn't really do anything if the enemy didn't hit the vitals (or making it worse, as pi- would have its damage increased!), the damage is halved and turned into blunt. 

BABT Modern Armor Table

The armor on this table covers all body parts except Neck, Face and Eyes.

To help choosing armor, also provided is the cost and weight for a "Vest" which covers only the Torso.

Armor	DR	Weight	Cost	Layer	Flexible?	Vest Weight	Vest Cost	TL
Silk	1/31	34	180	Outer	Y	11	61	6
Rubber	2/61ª	37	186	Outer	Y	12	62	6
Elastic Polymer	2/61	13	1,344	Inner	Y	4	456	7
Kevlar	4/121	13	1,608	Inner	Y	4	546	8
Heavy Kevlar	6/181	20	2,412	Outer	Y	6	820	8
Ballistic Polymer	7/211	11	2,940	Inner	Y	3	999	8
Heavy Ballistic Polymer	13/361	20	5,040	Outer	Y	6	1713	8
Steel Inserts	2/61	42	144	Insert	N	14	48	6
Steel Plate	5/151	105	360	Outer	N	35	122	6
Light Ceramic Inserts	4/121ª	33	840	Insert	N	11	285	7
Ceramic Inserts	8/241ª	67	1,680	Insert	N	22	571	7
Ceramic Plate	11/331ª	92	2,310	Outer	N	31	785	7
Light Adv. Ceramic Inserts	4/121ª	25	2,520	Insert	N	8	831	8
Adv. Ceramic Inserts	10/301ª	63	6,300	Insert	N	21	2142	8
Adv. Ceramic Plate	14/421ª	88	8,820	Outer	N	29	2998	8

1Behind Armor Blunt Trauma: Any Piercing damage that is lower than 3 times the DR of the armor is halved and turned into crushing damage. This is indicated by having two values: the first value the actual DR; any damage below the second value is halved and turned to crushing damage.

ªAblative: Each 10 points of damage reduce the DR by 1.

 

Layers

Inner and Insert layers are Concealable under or as clothing.

Insert layers may be layered on top of any other Layer without any penalties.

Outer layer may be layered on top of the inner Layer but this gives a -1 to DX.

  

Armor Pieces

The armor table shows full body armor, that protects all parts of the body, except the neck, face and eyes. To buy armor that protects only a small part, multiply the price and weight by the modifier in the table below:

Location	Modifier
Skull	4%
Face*	3%
Neck**	2%
Torso	33%
Arms	27%
Legs	35%

*Armor that protects the eyes have transparent visors. Transparent visors halve the DR of the eyes.

**Anyone who wears outer armor on their neck suffers a -1 penalty to DX as if he was layering an extra layer of armor.

 

BABT Modern Weight and Cost per DR

Materials Cost and Weight per DR, in case you want to fully customize your armor.

The armor on this table covers all body parts except Neck, Face and Eyes.

Armor	Weight per DR	Cost per DR	Max DR*	Flexible?	TL
Silk	34.2 1	60	5	Y	6
Rubber	18.91ª	31	7	Y	6
Elastic Polymer	6.721	224	8	Y	7
Kevlar	3.361	134	20	Y	8
Ballistic Polymer	1.681	140	36	Y	8
Steel	211	24	16	N	6
Ceramic	8.41ª	70	35	N	7
Ultra-Strength Steel	14.71	147	23	N	8
Adv. Ceramic	6.31ª	210	44	N	8

1Behind Armor Blunt Trauma: Any piercing damage that is lower than 3 times the DR of the armor is halved and turned into crushing damage. This is indicated by having two values: the first value the actual DR; any damage below the second value is halved and turned to crushing damage.

ªAblative: Each 10 points of damage reduce the DR by 1.

Max DR*: This is the max DR that can reasonably be carried by a human without becoming completely immobile from not being able to bend. Doesn't apply to vehicles, monsters, and things bigger than humans in general.

 

Simpler Better Fantasy Armor with Edge Protection

My own take on

https://noschoolgrognard.blogspot.com/p/better-fantasy-armor.html

and

https://www.gamesdiner.com/2007/01/edge-protection-armor-enhancement-for-gurps-4e/

 and

https://jetgurps.blogspot.com/2014/04/super-edge-protection-part-1-adding-to.html 

Simplified for my personal usage. 

Low Tech Armor Table

The armor on this table covers all body parts except Neck, Face and Eyes.

Vest is just the torso only, there for convenience.

Armor	DR	Cost	Weight	Layer	Bulk	Vest Weight	Vest Price
Thick Clothing	1/21	95	11.4	Padding	Thin	3.8	31
Cloth Aketon, & Padded boots	3/61	285	34.2	Outer	Light	11.4	95
Leather Clothing	2/42	114	24.7	Outer	Light	8.23	38
Leather Gambeson & Boots	3/62	171	37	Outer	Medium	12.33	57
Scale Folidotos, & Boots	5/103	1,187	47.5	Outer	Medium	15.83	396
Scale Lorica Squamata	8/163	1,900	76	Outer	Heavy	25.33	633
Mail Voiders	3/63	1,425	17.1	Inner	Thin	5.6	470
Light Mail	5/103	2,375	28.5	Outer	Light	9.5	791
Mail	7/143	3,325	39.9	Outer	Medium	13.3	1108
Heavy Mail	9/183	4,275	51.3	Outer	Heavy	17.1	1425
Segmented Plate	4/83	2,128	30.6	Outer	Medium	10.2	709
Munitions Plate	7/143	4,655	46.5	Outer	Medium	15.5	1551
Plate Armor	10/203	6,650	66.5	Outer	Heavy	22.17	2216
Heavy Plate Armor*	13/263	8,645	86.4	Outer	Jousting	28.8	2881
Full Plate Armor**	14/203	10165	95	Padding, Inner, Outer	Heavy	-	-
Heavy Full Plate Armor***	17/263	12160	115	Padding, Inner, Outer	Jousting	-	-

*-1DX unless you have Armor Mastery or are SM +1

**-3 DX without Armor Mastery

***-4 DX without Armor Mastery, -1DX with Armor master. No penalty with Armor Master and SM +1.

1 Fibrous Armor: Any Impaling damage below the second value is turned into Crushing.

2 Leather Armor: Any Cutting damage below the second value is turned into Crushing.

3Edge Protection: Any Cutting or Impaling damage below the second value is turned into Crushing.

 

Armor Modifiers

Layering Armor: You can have up to 3 layers of armor (Padding, Inner and Outer), each adding -1 to DX without the appropriate advantage to negate.

Cheap Armor: Used and unfitting armor. multiply the price by 0.6 and the weight by 1.25. This is only really worth it for Mail, cheap mail is slightly more expensive than scale, but much lighter. Cheap scale is very heavy, and cheap plate is worse than mail and still more expensive.

 

Armor Pieces

The armor table shows full body armor, that protects all parts of the body, except the neck, face and eyes. To buy armor that protects only a small part, multiply the price and weight by the modifier in the table below:

Location	Modifier
Skull	4%
Face*	3%
Neck*	2%
Torso	33%
Arms	27%
Legs	35%

*Armor that protects the face gives tunnel vision and -4 to Perception. Also you cannot protect the eyes without becoming effectively blind!

*Anyone who wears heavy armor on their neck suffers a -1 penalty to DX as if he was layering an extra layer of armor.

 

Couple of spells

New Spells

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Fire Install

    Full Cost: 2
    Casting Roll: Skill.

    Components: V, S.

    Cost: 1FP

    Casting Time: 1sec

    Range: Equal to Will

    Duration: 1 minute

Your weapon or hand burst into flames that only hurt enemies. Deal +1d6 burn damage on all attacks for the duration.

 

Self Buff (10pts) (-50%): Advantage Fire Install (65%), Wizardly/Divine Magic (-30%), D&D Magic (-30%), Cost Fatigue 1 (-5%) Touch Spell (-55%), Reduced Duration, 1/20, (-25%)

Fire Install is Burning Attack 1d [5] (Follow-Up, universal +50%; Magical, -10%; Visible, -10%)  [6.5].

-50+65-30-30-5-55-25=-130

10*(1-0.8)=2.0

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Returning Weapon

    Full Cost: 17
    Casting Roll: Skill

    Components: None

    Cost: 1fp

    Casting Time: 1sec

    Range: Touch

    Duration: 3 minutes.

Any single projectile or throwing weapon is returned to your hands/quiver/etc. If the weapon has a RoF larger than 1, only the first projectile returns. This only brings back the projectile itself, not the propellant and thus doesn't work for firearms.

Affliction [10], Returning Weapon (+100%), Wizardly Magic (-30%); D&D Magic (-30%)Touch Spell (-55%)Cost Fatigue 1 (-5%); Buff (+100%); fixed duration - 3 minutes (+0%);

Returning Weapon is: Returning Weapon at DX level [9]; + Unusual Training [1]; Magic (-10%); Reduced Fatigue Cost -1 (+10%); [10]

90-30-30-55-5+100=70

10*1.7=17 

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Blessing of the Wind

    Full Cost: 7
    Casting Roll: Skill.

    Components: V, S.

    Cost: 1FP/10 seconds

    Casting Time: 1s

    Range: Touch

    Duration: Up to 1 minute.

By asking the spirits of wind to bless you in combat, your movements become much lighter and faster. You gain +1 to all DX-Based skills and +1 to basic move while in combat.

Affliction [10]; Self Buff (-50%); Wizardly Magic (-30%); D&D Magic (-30%); Reduced Duration 1/3 (-10%); Blessing of the Wind (+160%); Cost FP per 10 seconds (-20%); Touch Spell (-55%);

Blessing of the Wind is: DX +1 [20] Doubly Aspected: Only for skills and only while in combat (-40%); and Move +1 [5]; Aspected: Only in combat (-20%); 20*(1-0.4)+5*(1-0.2)=16

-50-30-30-10+160-20-55=-35 

10*(1-0.35)=6.5

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Dancing Light

    Full Cost: 5 points.

    Casting Roll: Skill. Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

    Components: V, S.

    Cost: 1 FP.

    Casting Time: 1 second.

    Range: 100 yards.

    Duration: One minute.

 

    You can summon a spherical light equivalent to full daylight anywhere within range. The light is bright enough to eliminate all darkness penalties in a 10-yard radius. By concentrating, you can move this light at Move 1. This spell requires no maintenance, it is a “fire and forget” spell, so you can have multiple dancing lights active and move them individually by concentrating.

    Statistics: Create Visible Light 1 (Accessibility, Limited to lighting a 10-yard radius for one minute, -40%; Magical, -10%; Mobile 1, +40%; Ranged, +40%; Reduced Fatigue Cost 1, +20%; Requires Gestures, -10%; Requires Magic Words, -10%)Wizardly Magic (-30%) [5].

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