Armor Modification for d20 Modern

In addition to the protective gear listed in the SRDs, you can also purchase inserts (which slip under or into your clothing), helmets (which protect your head and face), and plates (which fit over your clothing), and thus offer you additional protection from physical injury. Some Body rmour is just re!purposed sporting goods (usually the p lastic "ind), #ut the rest is either military! or law!enforcement!grade gear that you purchase through surplus stores, mail! order, or have custom!made. In any event, the $D%s are as listed, and although it&s a little weird for someone in the modern world to #uy what amounts to armour, it&s #y no means illegal, and therefore there is no restriction modifier to your purchase D%. Armour and Shield Bonuses d' odern has only one Defence #onus type for p hysical protection, the *+uipment #onus, #ut $hoeni has a lot of fantasy mied into its modern setting, so we use all three. rmour is something you wear. If putting your hand on it would loo" li"e someone putting their hand on you, then it&s armour. Shields Shields are things you carry. If you lift it up and put it #etween yourself and the hurty things, then it&s a shield. ny ny time you #uy something from outside of the $hoeni manual that grants an e+uipment #onus, you need to ma"e a simple judgement call as to whether it would #e armour or a shield. Inserts Inserts are small dis"s of plastic, ceramics, or metal that you affi to your clothing. -he individual dis"s #e very small and affied to a mesh that is then sewn into clothing, or they can # e larger and fit, individually, into into special poc"ets. eshes are flei#le #ut more delicate large dis"s are less flei#le #ut more ro#ust. /or game purposes, there&s no difference #etween the two. Inserts come in 0ight, edium, and 1eavy. 2ou cannot layer inserts. -hey grant an rmour #onus. Helmets 1elmets fit over the head, protect the s"ull, and usually wrap around the face, thus protecting some of the most vital areas of the #ody. -hey are most typically designed for riding motorcycles or other open!air vehicles (1eavy 1elmets), #ut are also designed for some sporting e vents, li"e fencing or #ase#all (0ight 1elmets). 1eavy 1elmets always have some way of seeing out the front, either a hardened #ut clear polymer, a fine mesh, or even a traditional slatted 3#eaver,3 3#eaver,3 as found in medieval armour. 0ight 1elmets are often open!faced. 0ight 1elmets impose a !' penalty to 4#serve chec"s, and 1eavy 1elmets impose a !5. -hey grant a n rmour #onus. Plates $lates are form!fitting pieces of hardened material (metal, ceramic, polymers, etc.) that affi to the outside of your #ody, on top of your clothes, usually #y straps, #uc"les, velcro, or some com#ination thereof. -hey most resem#le 3armour3 in the traditional sense. 0ower!Body plates cover the thighs, shins, and groin, and 6pper!Body plates cover the chest, stomach, #ac" and shoulders. /ull!$late covers covers all of the a#ove, as well as the nec", arms, and usually gloves and #oots of some "ind (these latter are not often plated, #ut instead just made of dura#le materials). -hey grant an rmour #onus. Modifying Body Armour  2ou 2ou can #uy slightly different different "inds of #ody armour, which adjusts the $D%, as listed in the ta#le.  lmost all of the options translate translate to using #etter7poorer #etter7poorer materials materials to ma"e the armour armour (e.g., titanium instead of steel, household plastic instead of sophisticated polymers). In real terms, these "inds of armour a re either custom made or home made, or of higher or lower +uality. Remem#er that you can supply whatever flavour tet you want, so your armour could #e recycled hoc"ey gear, or you might have scrounged together enough titanium to #eat out a chest plate in your #asement. -hat "ind of thing is entirely up to you. 2ou 2ou cannot apply these modifications to protective gear found in the SRDs without your 8&s eplicit permission #ecause those items have specific physical +ualities already (such as #eing made of metal). 2ou 2ou can com#ine any and all modifications to #ody armour, #ut you cannot layer the same "ind of modification. /or eample, you cannot ta"e 1ardened twice in order to get a 9'

 rmour Bonus. Heavy/Light -his "ind of #ody armour is made of materials of different weights #ut similar hardness. djust its aimum Deterity, rmour $enalty, and Speed odifier accordingly. It could #e super!light ceramic or super!dense metal, for eample. Flexible -his "ind of #ody armour is made of materials that can #end and fle #ut retain their protective +ualities, such as meshes, tetiles that #ecome rigid on impact, or space!age variations on good old chain mail. djust the aimum Deterity of the armour as indicated. -his could #e made of ultra!modern woven fi#res or space!age plastic. Hardened/Softened -his "ind of #ody armour is made of materials of different hardness7softness, #ut a#out the same weight. Reduce or increase its rmour #onus to Defence as indicated. -his could have #een specially treated in a patented chemical process, or wea"ened #y years of use and repair. Condutive -his "ind of #ody armour conducts electricity. It is usually made of metal, #ut other materials are theoretically possi#le. Ferrous -his "ind of #ody armour is made of a metal that can #e affected #y magnetic fields. -o #e ferrous literally means that the metal has some iron in it. Fragile -his "ind of #ody armour is made of a material, li"e ceramics or certain plastics, that does not #end or dent #ut instead shatters when it ta"es a #low at the wrong angle and7or of sufficient force. *very time you either (a) ta"e a critical hit or (#) ta"e : or more 1$s of damage in a single #low, /ragile #ody armour loses ; point of protection. If this reduces the #ody armour to 9, then the damage effectively destroys it. It falls off your #ody in shards. -his "ind of armour could #e a "ind of ceramic designed to ta"e hits so that you don&t. Lo! Melting Point -his "ind of #ody armour is usually made of plastic, #ut it can also #e certain "inds of metal.