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Message: <blockquote data-quote="feydras" data-source="post: 1303028" data-attributes="member: 16038">picture this...Phaedra approaches the huge orc with shortsword drawn circling in warily.  In a sudden move, she lunges forward feinting and stabbing.  No fool, the orc effortlessly knocks aside the puny blade with his large dented shield.  With a bark and a grin he follows with a slashing blow cutting a line across the elf's fine chainshirt and drawing first blood.  Phaedra's heart races as she spins and tumbles left turning the orc's potentially lethal follow-up blow into merely a graze.  Catching her footing, her warrior instincts return her calm bring with it a deadly focus.The orc swings his battleaxe in a vicious arc but the elf slips in, meeting the swing and lifts the huge axe, ducking slightly, over her head.  Phaedra's finely tuned battle instincts waste no time reacting to the orc's vulnerable opening.  Realizing her sword stands little chance of penetrating the thick steel breastplate the orc wears, she skillfully twists her blade, bringing it down to strike at the beast's exposed legs.  It is a devastating blow.  Blood spurts as green skin and dark tendons are torn from his leg.  The orc buckles and staggers.  Phaedra tumbles to avoid a wild blow and springs back to her feet several yards from the enraged orc.  The orc stumbles after her favoring his wounded leg as she gracefully puts some ground between the two.  Moments later, a good hundred feet away Phaedra draws her longbow and peppers the exposed orc who stands bellowing in the open clearing.  He scans frantically for cover, but sees only open rock and dirt.  Arrow after well placed arrow pierce the fleeing orc's steel and bury into his flesh as he races, stumbling and tripping, towards a copse of trees in the distance.  He never makes it.Sorry, didn't mean to make this so long.  The point was to emphasize the tactical options that become available using called shots, armor as DR, and piecemeal armor together.My biggest challenge with a combo system is that the easier chance to hit (due to EC being lower than AC was) would translate into perhaps too easy of a chance to make a called shot.  This seems a very workable problem, but I was hoping to get some other thoughts on it.For a called shot effect i like the basic idea of 'Torn Asunder' by Bastion Press.  Basically a successful called shot is a critical to the location which has an effect, instead of just more damage.  A normal critical has a chance to result in an effect as well.- feydras</blockquote>

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