Zombie RPG - Design Update: Armour

Brian Mitsoda has kicked up a new update for Double Bear's Zombie RPG, looking at armour:

It occurs to me that we have discussed the merits of Melee versus Ranged a bit, but we haven’t introduced the armor system, so that’s what I’m going to talk about today. Our armor, much like the weapons, is up to personal preference/need more than it is a linear boost to the defense rating. Armors have a basic defense rating which is subtracted directly from damage. Most sets also have a resistance to certain kinds of attack, which reduces the attack damage by a certain percentage. Resistance bonus is taken off first, and then reduced by the damage resistance of the armor.