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  1. Sorry if I came off needlessly aggressive, I'm not going to pretend either of us have anything other than opinions, and I completely understand in the context of 1 point of serpent man scale, their scales wouldn't fall off after one punch. However if that serpent man were to survive a dynamite blast, I think it would be reasonable to assume that it may lose some of its natural protection. All I'm saying is what makes sense is contextual.
  2. If we look at Bullet-resistant protection as we have it in our modern day, typically rifle-graded plates will have the strike face covered with ceramic, which helps to dissipate a large amount of velocity to the point where the centimetre of steel behind it is not penetrated and you don't end up with a bullet in your body. But the ceramic fractures and becomes less effective as huge chunks of it are displaced. I understand your point, that perhaps the one or two HP could be considered the impact damage breaking a rib or something, but if a PC ends up losing half of their HP to impact damage, any descriptive workarounds to acknowledge the armour, acknowledge that it played a role in saving the PC some damage, but did not prevent all damage and is no worse for wear seems a bit contrived. A plate of metal being deformed from a bullet or links of chainmail broken after being hit by an axe will be considerably weaker than previously. Even a sandbag, listed as 20 armour (CR pg 112) being shot at by a thompson is going to start spilling its sand and be less effective cover. OP, I personally don't find the armour all that relevant in classic, but just house rule during prep as long as you have a basic knowledge of the anatomy of the enemy. If we take Gla'aki crawling around his lake for example, after googling what Integument meant (tough skin), logically if a tank has 24 AR, and Gla'aki's skin has 40, no matter how many .45's he was hit with, he would not be harmed. but dropping a depth charge would bypass some of his protection through shockwave damage. Ramming him with a boat would probably deal damage depending on whether you feel he has internal organs around the point of impact. As much as I love BRP, any system is not entirely dependable for GM needs, and the core rulebook flat damage reduction for armour personally feels too mechanical and arbitrary to describe convincingly, so I decide how to handle it on the fly.
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