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I can't find the base parry% for shields in the rulebook. I am assuming it is 25%. Does anyone know what it is supposed to be?

I could have sworn that information was in the book, but I just looked and I couldn't find it either. The Runequest SRD lists the base shield skill as STR+DEX, so 25% might work out to a nice average.

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In the BRP Big Gold Book (and in Elric!/Stormbringer) the base chance for shields is pretty much 15% across the board. The "original" BRP (the little 16 page pamphlet from the beginning of time) has the base for shields at 25%. The game that was the actual inspiration for GORE (you know, the one about occult investigators facing down mind-blasting monstrosities) doesn't appear to have an entry for shields. They're not terribly common in the genre, after all. So I suspect that's why GORE is lacking info on them as well. In any case, I'd say somewhere around 20% ought to be fair as a starting point.

The game that was the actual inspiration for GORE (you know, the one about occult investigators facing down mind-blasting monstrosities) doesn't appear to have an entry for shields. They're not terribly common in the genre, after all.

See, this is where investigators need to think outside the box. Next time the Lurching Horror shows up, they can go all Captain America on him!

seneschal wrote:The game that was the actual inspiration for GORE (you know, the one about occult investigators facing down mind-blasting monstrosities) doesn't appear to have an entry for shields. They're not terribly common in the genre, after all.

See, this is where investigators need to think outside the box. Next time the Lurching Horror shows up, they can go all Captain America on him!

Brilliant! I bow to your superior intellect, good sir