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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Njall" data-source="post: 5940139" data-attributes="member: 54719">Sadly, after half an hour of googling, the only thing I found was this <a href="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltpw0whXsa1qgwikvo1_400.jpg" target="_blank">siberian bear-hunting armor</a> which, while being mostly leather, was probably conceived to make you an unappealing target rather than protecting you, so yeah, not much in the way of actual damage absorption here, I doubt it helps my case ( or yours, for that matter <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).Dude, good luck standing in melee with an elephant at all. Fight an elephant alone, in melee, D&D style, and you're probably dead, regardless of what you're wearing and how well you're trained; all in all, this is just a fun thought exercise, because whether you're wearing heavy armor, light armor or a flashy pajama the result doesn't change.Still, while I doubt anyone ever engaged in elephant trunk dodging contests, or even bothered training to fight ( rather than hunt ) an elephant, I bet that if they did, they'd have a higher chance of success at dodging a couple of blows (and a higher mortality, but not everyone's got dex 18 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> ) if they could run away freely rather than crippling their FoV and wearing steel. A blow from a giant sized longsword to the side of your head, wielded by an opponent weighting 1000+ kg, will snap your neck just fine, it doesn't need to penetrate your armor. It will also wipe out your guard, in case you're bothering to keep it up.If it hits your torso, or an arm? You'd probably survive, if you're lucky, with some broken ribs or a broken arm. But it's probably still game over.</blockquote>

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