From:	Slipspeed atreloar@*********.com
Subject:	armor
Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 1999 03:44:48 +1000

>|How much ballistic armor dose a pillow give?
>
>None? If your GM is feeling generous... One?


It'd want to be a VERY generous day on the part of a GM. If bullets can
(note can, not will, for all you gun nuts. :) ) punch through kevlar, a few
feathers isn't going to do much. And it'd want to be one hell of a pillow.

If he meant impact armour, then I suppose one is fair, perhaps even two or
three, depending on the GM. Assuming the pillow was what was aimed at.

Hmm, make that one, full stop. I remember in high school, during a physics
class on force. My physics teacher (black belt third dan in tai kwon do)
called in a student teacher, and told him to hold a phone book against his
chest. He then punched the phone book. The teacher came to school the next
day with a bruise so big and purple it wasn't funny. Depending on the
pillow, it might work worse or better than the phone book. :)

Slipspeed

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