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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6290216" data-attributes="member: 6775031">The fighter in this example is wearing armor. The rules were never intended to cover someone who both had a ton of hit points and didn't have armor (whether natural or worn). The rules also don't cover decapitation strikes, so every attack that hits is one which strikes the armor and causes injury anyway. If you feel that the rules should cover decapitation strikes, and should include additional caveats for striking people who aren't wearing armor (or for bypassing armor), then by all means feel free to change things at your table.Let me see... +2 luck bonus to AC, +3 competence, +1 morale, and +2 divine. Yep, all perfectly objective and test-able.I agree that 3.X did go further than any prior edition in explaining the objective nature of the world, but there's not really much from anything before that which was actually subjective. A troll will have 42 hit points and AC 3 (or whatever) regardless of whether you're level 1 or level 20, in any edition other than 4E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 6290216, member: 6775031"] The fighter in this example is wearing armor. The rules were never intended to cover someone who both [I]had[/I] a ton of hit points and [I]didn't[/I] have armor (whether natural or worn). The rules also don't cover decapitation strikes, so every attack that [I]hits[/I] is one which strikes the armor and causes injury anyway. If you feel that the rules [I]should[/I] cover decapitation strikes, and [I]should[/I] include additional caveats for striking people who aren't wearing armor (or for bypassing armor), then by all means feel free to change things at your table. Let me see... +2 luck bonus to AC, +3 competence, +1 morale, and +2 divine. Yep, all perfectly objective and test-able. I agree that 3.X [I]did[/I] go further than any prior edition in explaining the objective nature of the world, but there's not really much from anything before that which was [I]actually[/I] subjective. A troll will have 42 hit points and AC 3 (or whatever) regardless of whether you're level 1 or level 20, in any edition other than 4E. [/QUOTE]

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