- These are all adapations of the Donning and Removing Armor rules in Basic Set 286
Donning Armor is found on Low-Tech 102, as mentioned here.
- The time to don each type of armor appears in the Armor
Table, which covers only torso armor.
- Calculate times to armor other body parts using the percentages on the Armor Locations Table (p. 100).
- If the wearer has assistance putting on his armor, divide donning time by 4 (minimum 3 seconds).
- Time to remove the armor is halved.
As no minimum is listed for removal, it presumably ignores the 3-second minimum. That would probably apply PRIOR to that though, and it is unclear if 1.5 would round down to 1 or up to 2.
- It is in general unclear how to round ANY fractions resulting from halving or quartering due to removal and/or assistance.
Page 100 has useful information for entire suits:
- For armor that covers only half of a location – e.g., “front only,” like a breastplate – halve the cost and weight of armor for that area.
- Do the same for just one arm, leg, hand, foot, etc.
- The same percentages can be used to calculate
other figures; e.g., manufacture time and donning time
LT110 has the actual tables.
Example[]
Feet, being 10% collectively, would be 5% of the time each. Being 1/20 of the time means that anything with a Don of 20 or less would be 1 or less to don them.
- It is never clarified if time is reduced to less than 0.5 if it might be a free action like with Reduced Time enhanced abilities.
As removal takes half the time, removing individual foot protection should take 1 or less for any suit with a Don of 40 or less.
Instant Armor[]
The Armor Locations Table on page 16 reiterates using the % for cost for the % for Don time and maintains a mere 10% for hands or feet.
Page 15 Gloves and Footwear has the disclaimer:
- These tables assume matched pairs, one piece of armor for each of two hands or feet. Halve cost and weight for just one.
The lowest (Don 6) is assigned to Mittens/Moccasins/Mukluks/Shoes and some variations of Boots/Sollerets, meaning individually they are Don 3, and take half the time (1.5) to remove.
Don 6, however, would be 10% of a suit which collectively has Don 60. The highest full-suit Don found in LT was 45, for plate, and 10% of that would have been 4.5 possibly rounded up to 5.
This indicates that the Don assigned to GAF in Instant Armor is higher than the 10% guidelines indicated.
see also[]
- Damage to Armor
- Targeting Armor