Pulse damage is built for machines. It hits 🤖 robots and 🦾 Power Armor — the same targets as EMP — twice as hard, and barely hurts anything else.
Against a robot
Damage is doubled, before ♨️ Energy DT and DR.
Against Power Armor
- The piece takes damage as if it were doubled.
- The wearer takes damage as if it were halved, rounded down.
- Each is resolved separately against the piece’s ♨️ Energy Resistance.
Against anything else
Damage is halved, rounded down, before ♨️ Energy DT and DR.
- EMP Shielding does not reduce Pulse damage.
- A Pulse explosive doubles or halves its damage for each creature in the blast, before 💣 Average DT.