Personal Possession & Armour, House rule I'm about to implement Options

[ToreadorVampire]

Hi all

Nice to see DS is back now.

I'd like to use you guys as a sounding board - opinions on the house-rule below please:

When being possessed by a spirit (of a possession tradition), the armour that the spirit grants you for free (double that spirit's force by default) does not stack with your worn armour for damage resistance tests. You use whichever of the two armour scores (your worn armour, or the spirit's granted armour) is highest for actually making DR tests.

For the purposes of your "Hardened Armour" that is granted through "Immunity to Normal Weapons" the threshold to break through your immunity remains based on the spirit's granted armour (double the spirit's force), even if you are wearing more armour.

Spells such as armour and adept powers such as mystic armour continue to stack as normal.

What do people think? Am I going crazy, am I missing something fundamental, was this already the rules/how it was supposed to work?

Sunday, I was GMing a game and a possession-based mage had a F6 spirit possess himself to powerup for a fight, and then tried to roll 36 dice for a DR test (this was based on Impact armour, not Ballistic):

12 from the spirit (and of course, I had to do him 13 damage in one hit to just breach his Immunity)
2 from Form Fitting Armour
4 from his worn armour
2 from PPP add-ons
10 from his adjusted body of 4+6
6 from Edge (argh, and it wasn't even his edge, it was the spirit's egde)

I thought this was just a touch over the top, especially compared with the power levels of the rest of the team.

So - opinions?

I am aware that he is also abusing his ability to keep summoning lots of spirits too - so don't worry. I am going to cover that angle with spirits starting to demand services from his character, and also every now and then a spirit might just use its edge to oppose being summoned (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)