One-piece armour?

[macksting]

Mari Boot?

[Phil Munoz]

skin suit is AC: 6.

As far as I know, no set of armor with an AC: 2 exists.

[Joseph Hewitt]

It provides 6 points of protection, but is Class 2 armor. It's the class and not the actual armor protection that matters for Acrobatics. Why set things up confusingly like this? Because if you get armor made of some other material (like biotech or something) then class 2 armor might provide either more or less than 6 points of protection.

For example, if you had armor made of meat (sounds like it would be from Kingdom of Loathing), Class 2 would provide 4 points of protection. I think biotech class 2 still provides 6 points but it may be 8.

I've tested Acrobatics, and it works fine. You only make an acrobatics roll after failing the first dodge test.

[Epsilon]

Quoting: macksting

Mari Boot?

Maru Mari? Probably a bad idea... although if the transformation thing works for all scale factors instead of just SF:2...

[Phil Munoz]

Quoting: Joseph Hewitt

Why set things up confusingly like this? Because if you get armor made of some other material (like biotech or something) then class 2 armor might provide either more or less than 6 points of protection.

Ah.  There's just the ambiguity with the nomenclature. It'd suggest in the inventory list, have armor items have PP:# inside of the brackets instead of AC: to differentiate Protection Points from Armor Class.

[macksting]

Epsilon: Dear god, somebody remembers that term!
Always bothered me that everything recent calls it a "meditation ball."

[SharkD]

Quoting: Phil Munoz

It'd suggest in the inventory list, have armor items have PP:# inside of the brackets instead of AC: to differentiate Protection Points from Armor Class.

I agree with this.

On a further note, might armor not decrease in the amount of protection points it provides as it receives damage? This would create an incentive to keep armor in good repair.

[Joseph Hewitt]

Quoting: SharkD

On a further note, might armor not decrease in the amount of protection points it provides as it receives damage? This would create an incentive to keep armor in good repair.

This is already how it works.

[Epsilon]

Quoting: macksting

Epsilon: Dear god, somebody remembers that term!
Always bothered me that everything recent calls it a "meditation ball."

Meditation ball?

It's awful weird to meditate inside an armored ball that goes roughtly up to your knees as a semi-pure form of energy.

(I am/was referring to the Morph Ball from the Metroid series, BTW)

[macksting]

Yeah, Morph Ball, sorry. I lost most of my Metroid games in the last move. Still have my NES and original Metroid, but lost the manual in another move.
Point is, I'm kinda surprised anybody else remembers that it was called the Maru Mari. I'd started to think I was only dreaming it.