From:	Barbie LeVile barbie@********.de
Subject:	Called Shots.
Date:	Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:53:48 +0200

Aristotle wrote:
>
> Greetings -n- Salutations,
>
> I'm sure I've seen this discussed here before, but I really had no other
> place to ask. I always assumed that when making a called shot to an
> unarmored area of an opponent the target did not gain the benefit of the
> armor, but as I read through SR3 for the hundredth time I realized that it
> doesn't actually state that anywhere. I know that calling a shot adds +4 to
> the TN to hit the target and raises the damage level by one, but does the
> victim gain the benefit of their armor or not? I realize that this seems
> incredibly trivial, but I have 5 very impressionable players who need me to
> have all the answers.

BtB it does not negate the armor.
All you get is a +1 to the damage level.
And this is because the SR armor system is abstratec, the protectd value of
a piece of armor is calculated for the whole body area, not just the actual
part of the body it covers.

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