Re: My happy DP

[Joel Gunderson <belgarat@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

I've always felt that DP was a happy medium between the body's ability to
accept fatigue and the body's ability to accept damage.  All the little
hits in between the crits are just you dodging, juking, or positioning
your body to minimize the effects of the blow (Bill Clinton needs to buy
more DP if this is true, btw).  Once in awhile, somebody
gets lucky and whacks you a good one...possibly killing you or severing a
limb.  Armor is even taken into account here due to the fact that if your
DV's are high enough, you don't even get critted...you just get hit for
normal damage that your DP allows you to absorb.

Joel 

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Steve Ames wrote:

> > The interpretation of DP given by Wright also allows in the improvement 
> > of DP.  Someone can learn to block, dodge, parry, roll resonably through 
> > practice and training.  I am not certain that if I keep poking myself 
> > with a sharp knife that I'll be able to take it continously better the 
> > next time and my DP just wouldn't be happy about that.
> 
> So why does it take you a month to get back in shape to dodge and
> parry after losing 60DP? You might be able to make an argument for
> strains, etc... but its questionable. Its certainly not just tired.
> 
> 						-Steve
>