[quote=@Vordak]
Combining heavy damage with a innate requirement for additional defenses - meaning it's unreasonable to expect any conventional means of defense to worl, such as dodging - is a recipie for salt. I don't want to be burnt to a toasty crisp just because i had no faraday cage on my face, or have said face blown off by a gauss gun (which is assume is far beyond the realm of convetional firearms in terms of projectile speed) because my character isn't tougher than a battleship.
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There are other alternatives to defenses. You don't have to be tougher than a battleship or faster than a bullet to avoid getting hit by a gauss gun, you can just learn to recognize and utilize tells and thus your character can anticipate the shot without metagaming or pulling speed shenanigans. And dodging is like any other defense- sometimes it's viable, sometimes it's best to find another alternative.