[@Doc Doctor]

OKAY, time to clear this up.

I did read your profile, believe me, and I'll admit I made some assumptions about how the Beardforce works, thanks to the specific wording therein, namely:

[quote]The Beardforce is based upon [color=ed1c24]Gonad's perception[/color] of an opponent... [/quote]

...which led me to believe that the Beardforce had calculated and adjusted Gonad's speed and power based on how strong he perceived Lobo Negro to be, and what he imagined him to be capable of after their first few exchanges in the fight itself, instead of by hopping over to the Character thread to read his sheet. That was my bad, I should have asked for clarification, but hey, now I know. But even after that I wracked my brain, trying to figure out just how it had gotten past me that the vaunted Beardforce ignored any and all obstacles between it and its target when it finally hit me, once again, in your own words:

[quote]...Even through helmets Gonad's blows have proven their potency, for although such things [b][i]may absorb shock and prevent superficial injury,[/i][/b] they do not do much slow the rate at which the brain bounces off its protective walls... [/quote]

How else was I to understand that other than to mean that Gonad’s blows, presumably empowered by the Beardforce since you made no mention otherwise, have been softened by helmets before? Or that another helmet, once further reinforced to resist impact as well as shocks, would somehow prove wholly ineffective when your own post states the opposite?  Yeah, you made mention that the brain was directly knocked even though the helmet worked but I just figured that was you not understanding that the shock of an impact IS, what knocks the brain around to cause a concussion, so I ignored it. Again, my bad, aparently.

All told, your sheet said one thing, your post said another, so I followed your post and reacted accordingly. If you're telling me now that I should have followed the sheet, after the wording of your post falsely led meto believe that I was enacting an actionable defense, then by all means I will follow the sheet from now on, and I will edit my post yet again to reflect this new information. 

What I won't do is allow myself to be written into a corner because your post contradicts either itself, your character sheet, or both.