From:	Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Knock Back Revisited
Date:	Thu, 6 Apr 1995 11:07:22 -0400

>>>>> "Jan-bart" == Jan-bart van Beek <flake@***.NL>
writes:

Jan-bart> My point is that although you're armor jacket stops the round
Jan-bart> flat, there's a shockwave going through you're suit and it's
Jan-bart> gonna shake you up a bit.

And if the bullet or particle beam has enough energy to throw the target
back, it'd do the same to the firer. This is well-documented by Newton's
Third(?) Law of Thermodynamics: for every action there is an equal but
opposite reaction.

[...]

Jan-bart> How about this.

Guess what? It's already figured in. Just because you take a wound doesn't
mean that your armor was penetrated, it means that some of the energy of
the impact penetrated. And, on top of that, you're adding at least one
extra set of dice-rolling which slows things down. If you want realistic
combat, go play Phoenix Command or maybe GURPS, not Shadowrun.

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