I just wanted to confirm

On a character, there is the soak value, the melee defense and range defense.

They can be wearing armor in their equipment description

I was wondering if the armor value was already listed within the soak value and defenses value or that these added up

Thanks

If you mean adversaries, yes.

Yes, on adversaries listed Soak includes any Armor ect.

Also note that Adversaries typically don't bother listing every fine detail or follow any specific build system. So an Adversary can have 50 Ranks of Enduring and it won't be listed, it'll just say he has a Soak of 55 and assume you'll know it's because he has Brawn 3, Laminate armor, and Enduring 50...

This is correct. What's on the statblock is what the guy has. You should never have to look through any part of any other book to play that NPC's stats (unless it's a reminder yourself what their skills can do).

On 12/11/2018 at 12:48 PM, Mefyrx said:

I just wanted to confirm

On a character, there is the soak value, the melee defense and range defense.

They can be wearing armor in their equipment description

I was wondering if the armor value was already listed within the soak value and defenses value or that these added up

Thanks

Wait to confirm are you thinking ranger and melee defense are part of soak? Because they are not.

Ranged and melee defense add a setback dice to the attack made based on the defense value. The same goes for shields in starship combat. They don’t affect soak at all.

See pages 206-207 of the edge of the empire core rule book to read about defense

I was talking about the overall

Some adversaries have armor or ..., I just wanted to know if the base value included anything that was already define.... so it is