[Ultima Forsan] Piecemeal Armor

[Archivist]

The Ultima Forsan setting has piecemeal armor - you might have something that gives you +2 for your chest, but +1 for your arm. I couldn't find any rules for this in the setting book.

Is this a core rule thing that I'm just not aware of?

[ValhallaGH]

If you look at the armor table in the Savage World Deluxe core rules, you'll find that each piece of armor covers specific parts of the body. A character may have a suit of leather armor (+1 armor, torso, legs, arms) and a plate corslet (+3 armor, torso), providing +3 armor in the chest and +1 in the limbs. (Physical armors do not stack with each other, so the torso uses the higher value of +3; energy armors don't stack with each other; physical can stack with energy, if my example benefited from an armor power with an energy field trapping.)
Remember that default Toughness uses the torso armor.

If a specific piece of equipment has different armor ratings for the parts it covers then you'd use those rules. If a setting has a "plate and chain" armor set, that provides +3 to the torso and +2 to the arms and legs then that is what you record, and remember the different values when attacks target specific locations.

While I haven't looked at Ultima Forsan, I suspect it is following that core principle.

[Archivist]

Does this affect the injury table? If I do the default attack on you and hit against torso armor , how could that result in an injury to arm or head or leg? Those locations would have had a different target number .

[Erolat]

Just because an attack hits the torso does not eliminate any effect to the limbs. If I shatter your collar bone and shoulder blade (both in the torso) that will easily result in your arm becoming useless. Same holds true for a good hip shot.

Wounds to the head are a bit harder to hand wave but even those can be done. Scar and Blinded are from shrapnel flying into the face. Brain Injury can be explained as lack of blood/oxygen getting to the brain while waiting to be treated.

[ValhallaGH]

Or a concussion from your head flopping around while being battered, or hitting the ground when you collapse. Brain trauma is no joke.

[Giuseppe Rotondo]

Everything said above is correct. Plus, specifically, in Ultima Forsan you roll a d20 on the Bites and Scratches table whenever a Plague Spawn attacks, so you determine the exact location of the hit (if the attack hits), so you can apply the Armor value specific to that body location.