Defence Rating

The naked Defence Rating is the persona’s base Defence Rating when wearing no protection at all. In this case, naked means wearing no armour and not running around nude. Armour increases the persona’s Defence Rating and has other effects on the persona.

The persona’s Defence Rating includes all the dekes and dodges that one would use to avoid getting damaged in combat. Extra descriptions of the perfect defensive move can earn EXPS but do not alter Defence Rating.

Armouring up is the process of wearing specialized clothing to decrease the chance of being damaged in combat. Armour deflects, absorbs and distributes the damaging forces. The goal of armour is to enhance the persona’s naked Defence Rating making them harder to damage.

A brief description of the composition, advantages and disadvantages of each armour type is listed below. This data may aid referees and players in deciding if armour is flammable, buoyant (hah!), edible, repairable, etc. The ref may alter the composition and wate of these armour types according to her campaign and milieu.

A suit of leather armour would have a wate of 3 kilograms. A persona carrying her leather armour increases her wate allowance by 3 kg and does not get an Defence Rating bonus. A persona wearing her leather armour gets an Defence Rating bonus of +50, and there is no impact on her wate allowance.

Shielding is any non-garment device used to reduce the chance of being hit. Shielding deflects blows and reduces her exposure to damage. Shielding requires the persona to use up a proficiency to use it properly. Whichever arm the player is using to manipulate the shielding cannot do anything else.

Restrictiveness indicates how cumbersome armour is to wear. The higher the restrictiveness, the more cumbersome, binding, and claustrophobic the armour is. Restrictiveness impacts the persona when the armour is worn, whether in or out of combat. Usually, the heavier the armour is, the more restrictive it is.

The more restrictive the armour, the higher the restrictiveness number. Wearing no armour has restrictiveness of 0. Plate armour has restrictiveness of 5. Deactivated powered armour has restrictiveness of 15. Negative restrictiveness is possible with specialized artifact armour.

Armour bought by the persona will fit. However, armour found while adventuring will not necessarily fit. Before armour can fit, it must meet two criteria: shape and size. The previous owner must have the same body shape, and the previous owner’s wate must be within 15%.

An anthro could not wear the bespoke armour of a four-armed avarian tripod alien. If a persona’s wate is 70 kgs, the previous owner’s wate must be between 59.5 and 80.5 kg.

Suiting up for battle is can be time-consuming. The more restrictive the armour type, the longer it takes to put on the armour. Without help and under no pressure, combat armour takes 1.5 minutes per point of restrictiveness to adorn. A suit of chainmail would take about 8 minutes to put on.

Well-maintained armour should never wear out. Attending to armour after a battle and in a scheduled manner should keep things in working order. Inhospitable environments will destroy armour as quickly as any other mundane equipment.

Unattended armour will damage. Whatever damage that the persona takes, the armour will take also. Armour has one hit point per point of AR. A suit of unmaintained studded armour could withstand 575 hit points of damage before being wrecked. At zero hit points, the armour loses Defence Rating and structural integrity.

Alien armour is limited to tool-users aliens that can create artifacts. Tool users from a creator species would undoubtedly have armour and protective equipment. Their armour would function the same as the mundane armour except for wate.

The first thing that referees will realize is that personas like attacking things that she has not prepared to be attacked. These include doorknobs, walls, windows, car wheels, and a host of other things that no one can foresee.

The following tables do not reflect combat armour ratings. These armour ratings are for targeting uncombat targets, like those described above. The tables below are guidelines for assigning an Defence Rating (DEF) to those items that typically do not have one.