stacked armor

[Savar]

A race has a natural armor bonus. What happens if they ware armor?

[shootingwomprats]

[Savar]

Combine penalty if any, use the best per situation. That makes sense.

[garhkal]

I have never seen any rules one way or the other. SO i say they can be combined, but after 1d energy level, you start gaining dex penalties too.
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[Jedi Skyler]

[garhkal]

True, by the RAW< only flak (or blast) vests can be combined with other armor (combat jumpsuit), but nothing was ever considered it seemed with natural armor...

OR maybe they felt that races which DO have natural armor are repulsed by the thought they have to put on other armor..
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[tetsuoh]

We run it as follows.

Add +1 to each source for each 1D of additional added for stacking.

This bonus is added to the highest source.

for every 1D added - either physical or energy - the character suffers -1d dexterity unless the armor is tailored to them.

The difficulty of the fitting is Moderate + a modifier based on the character's race difference away from humanoid standard + the difference in pips the character would be allowed from stacking. This removes a -1D penalty - every additional difficulty level the repairman gets removes an additional -1 penalty to a minimum of -1 pip per additional 1D the character would receive.

NOTES:
In our games any armor worn by a race that is not humanoid standard that is described as being humanoid standard in design incurs a -1D Dexterity penalty to begin with.
The cost of this modification is 10% the armor cost and then follows the normal rules for repair and modification supplied in the core rulebook.

[garhkal]

Nice rule for 'resizing armor'..
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