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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 2099978" data-attributes="member: 3192">I know that D&D 3E does not have a "Called Shot" option in the normal rules, but I have had players who wanted to try it anyways. Normally I have just said that the option wasn't available and that their characters were trying to hit vital areas each and every attack. Moreover, sneak attacks allowed you to do this while the opponent was off-guard. Well, a couple of years back I ran "Of Sound Mind" which includes a neat gargantuan dragon statue with plate-sized gems in its eyes. The players were happy to have 2 pcs climb up the statue to retrieve the eyes while the others were on guard with bows below. It was fun and everyone was smiling even with the foreknowledge of what would happen next. They pry one eye out and "RRRUMMMBLE" the stone golem starts to move with the PCs on it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> My question is: the archers immediately declared called shots on the other eye gem. I didn't let them do it at the time, but it still felt wrong somehow. As the "one vital spot" animating a stone colossus they likely could not defeat and at best run away from, it made a whole lot of sense in character. But called shots on the eye had no corollary in the rules.  So, should I have allowed bowshots on the eye? Say with a -4 penalty for eye size (and another -4 for gargantuan size already added to AC)?? Perhaps the creature wasn't built to be defeated under the normal ruleset? (not by conventional means anyways). I guess I'm just wondering what other more experienced 3E DM's might have done.</blockquote>

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