[Warhammer 40k Deathwatch RPG]

I have read about purity seals. These are parchements with litanies and prayers, usually immersed in holy wax and/or coated in electrum coating.

Are they destroyable, for example if character is hit in chest with melta weapon, or incinerated by five flamethrower attacks?

Or they count as indestructible?

The issue with this is that there's not really a destroying mechanic beyond power fields. Most of the descriptions are purely narrative.

But when you go about destroying things that people have worked for simply because they catch fire easily it begins to upset people.

@ TermenusDevastator ...

1. ThenDoctor is correct. Purity Seals are, in general, thematic; as such, whether they can be destroyed or not is purely up to the GM for storytelling purposes.

2. However... The difference comes when said Purity Seal(s) have an in-game Effect (as described in DW-04: Rites of Battle ), &/or if the Players have spent the XP for a Purity Seal. If XP has been spent, then it would be best if the GM does not casually destroy the Purity Seal(s), such as from flamer/melta attacks or massed heavy weapon fire, since that discourages the Players' investment in the game if they are going to lose their valuable XP like that.

3. Then there is the balanced scenario: Purity Seals via Requisition. If Purity Seal(s) are Requisition-purchased, then they do (or should) provide an in-game Effect; however, it also becomes a balance between being destructible, just not "easily" destructible. The GM must impress upon the Players that while simply being caught in the general sweep of a flamer's cone-AoE or the massed-fire from a Horde's heavy stubbers may not destroy the Purity Seal, taking the Space Marine taking direct hits from a meltagun or heavy flamer is likely to (or if an enemy specifically targets the Purity Seal).

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Hope this helps.

The same question could be asked of a Dark Angel's robes. As has been said, there are no rules for it, so it comes down to GM discretion. If applied casually, it could open a whole can of worms ("Wait- why is X destroyed in this situation, but it wasn't destroyed in a similar situation last game?") and require excessive micro-management, so I would recommend being very judicious in implementation: only destroy stuff in obvious "Duh, of course it would be destroyed by that" situations.

a puritty seal is a visible representation of an ideal, a spiritual thing. The seal may be destroyed but the purity it represebts is in tge marine's soul, thus the loss of the seal doesn't affect it's piwer. At least IMHO.

Dude, it's a piece of wax. You even see them just affix a new one in one of the videos. You don't always walk around with them.

What you bought with your experience is the effect. That doesn't go away if someone breaks your pretty little piece of wax or burns, cuts, soaks, melts, etc etc your little paper ribbons.

Easiest way to say it. You get the seal because you are pure. You don't become pure by having the seal.

Fire. Destroys most things. If not then you are not using enough of it.