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Message no. 1
From: Lars M Ericson <lericson@***.EDU>
Subject: Trolls and Dermal Plating
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 15:40:31 LCL
In the SR2 main book, trolls are stated as having dermal plating (1)
naturally. Is this bonus to body addedd into the +5 racial modifier
already, or is it just like the cyberware. Some GMs I've talked to take
the dermal plating to be already in the racial modifier, and if a troll
wants to get dermal plating cyberware, dermal (2) would only give a +1
cybered modifier because the troll is already considered to have dermal
(1). Don't flame me if it's obvious.



-- Lars Ericson <lericson@***.edu>
Message no. 2
From: Lars M Ericson <lericson@***.EDU>
Subject: Trolls and Dermal Plating...
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 16:02:16 LCL
In the SR2 main book, trolls are stated as having dermal plating (1)
naturally. Is this bonus to body addedd into the +5 racial modifier
already, or is it just like the cyberware. Some GMs I've talked to take the
dermal plating to be already in the racial modifier, and if a troll wants
to get dermal plating cyberware, dermal (2) would only give a +1 cybered
modifier because the troll is already considered to have dermal (1). Don't
flame me if it's obvious.



-- Lars Ericson <lericson@***.edu>
Message no. 3
From: "NEAL T. MOSS" <ntmoss@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: Trolls and Dermal Plating
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 18:20:57 -0500
On Thu, 3 Mar 1994, Lars M Ericson wrote:

> In the SR2 main book, trolls are stated as having dermal plating (1)
> naturally. Is this bonus to body addedd into the +5 racial modifier
> already, or is it just like the cyberware. Some GMs I've talked to take
> the dermal plating to be already in the racial modifier, and if a troll
> wants to get dermal plating cyberware, dermal (2) would only give a +1
> cybered modifier because the troll is already considered to have dermal
> (1). Don't flame me if it's obvious.
>
>
>
The way I see it is that the +1 to body that you get from the dermal
armor would help in resisting ballistic and impact damage. Also from
physical spells etc.. But from things like gasses that are inhaled I
wouldn't give the extra point to the damage resistance test.

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