[Feature request] Damage to weapons and armour

[Voidchimera]

Hello, I wanted to ask if it could be possible in the future to implement (optionally) damage to weapons and armour according to the rules appearing in Gurps - Low Tech Companion 2 - Weapons and Warriors in page 22, or another set of rules that could be more adequate. Considering that, I think that this would imply:

• Each piece of armour/weapon shows HP (current and total) and DR somewhere in the equipment editor and/or as notes in equipment.
• (Hopefully, each of those numbers mentioned before has a named variable so that you can use them with Token Tooltip AI or something similar)
• Through the damage calculator, when applying damage, when the damage is beyond the DR threshold, apply it as damage to the piece of armour, and apply damage similarly to the weapon being used.
• Maybe it could be necessary to add an extra hit location for weapon/shield equipped as a way to cause direct damage to them, unlike regular wear and use that happens in the other cases.
• Unsure of how can be the damage to weapons and armour rules applied to parries with the system right now. Maybe it can be added in the future?
• Possible macro to repair armour fully, outputting the cost in the chat window. And another possible macro where you input how much money you spend repairing your armour, and adds it as HP.
• For many of these rules it's necessary to consider the quality of the equipment, so it may not be adequate to implement it already, or maybe a check box could be added for each damage calculation.
• When the variable for HP is at certain thresholds, reduce their DR. (ie, if armour has >1/3 HP, half its DR). Probably outputs a message in the chat?

That's what I can think of this so far, it's mostly a request that could work great for an automatized system as it reduces book keeping and makes the game more gritty.

[crnormand]

Wow, that is a big ask. I will start off by saying the one of the great advantages of GURPS is the incredible flexibility and the ability for each GM to design a game specifically for their needs. Unfortunately, that makes it hard for a game aid (such as ours) to be able to support enough GURPS so that everyone can play the game they want. So we cannot do what you ask, but I wanted to explain some of the reasons why we can't.

• Currently, we don't have a way to match up equipment with hitlocations. GCS used to have an export key that would "sort of" identify which equipment covered a hit location, but that was deprecated and removed. And GCA has no way of telling us this information. So we can't match hitlocations to equipment.
• We could enhance the Damage Calculator to overflow damage onto the underlying equipment (if we could identify the equipment). Unfortunately, neither GCA nor GCS provide us with any hit point information about equipment. So this data would have to come from some external source (or be hand edited), and we would have to save it so that it will remain during an import. Not impossible, just something that would have to be handled.
• We can add new hitlocations now (you can do that yourself using the Editor sheet).
• Currently we do not handle weapon (or any kind of equipment) damage. The only workaround I can suggest is that if you deem that a weapon has become damaged, you can manually enter an On-the-Fly formula to represent the decreased chance to hit, or the decreased damage, ex: [-1 due to damage], or you could just enter in the new damage formula, ex: [2d-3 cut] and the player could use that, instead of the value in the damage column.
• We don't know anything about money. Each GURPS campaign handles money in its own way. A fantasy campaign might model model as coins, but a sci-fi campaign uses credits, and the character creation tools only know how much each piece of equipment is worth. They do not keep a separate "money" value.

The best suggestion I can make is that you can manually track equipment damage on a character sheet. We added the ability for the GM or owner to edit (just about) any item in a list, just by double clicking it.

I am sorry, but I don't see us being able to implement this in the foreseeable future.

However, I will keep the issue open, for now, in case we can brainstorm some ideas.

[trev-dev]

I use a rule I found in Pyramid (can't recall the issue, sorry!) that implements a maximum number of penetrations armor can take. To track these penetrations, I use the GCS "uses" column, which I believe translates over to Game Aid if I'm not mistaken. Just an idea. The same column could be used in your situation @Voidchimera

[crnormand]

We can't automate this, but you can manually track this using one or more Resource Trackers. See the Users Guide on Resource Trackers.