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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 1633288" data-attributes="member: 8439">I'd disagree with that intepretation entirely. I have seen nothing to indicate that armor is assumed to cover the whole body equally (for simplicity's sake or otherwise) simply that there is no mechanical way to represent aiming for an uncovered area. (or no mechanical benifit to doing so). You may hit one or you may not. A chain shirt explicity does not cover the legs (hence the difference between that and full chain) and provides a lower armor bonus. When you score a hit against that armor type, you may have penatrated the armor, or you may have struck an area unprotected by the armor. When you crit a guy in full plate you may have swung hard enough to stab right through it, or you may have stabbed him through the eye. Even natural armor is not on the eyes, nose or all areas equally. A sling stone also will not penatrate an iron plate, nor will any non magical dagger. Claiming that being made of braided leather has anything to do with the whip's damage is only a justification, it provides no explaination for why it is statted that way.Consider that the neccassary +1 armor bonus for a whip to do no damage can be provided by a light shield. Do you think that DMs generally assume that a light sheild covers every inch of the body equally and every hit scored has resulted from a weapon going right through the shield? Most who bother to describe the attacks will say that a miss due to shield bonus was deflected by it, but a hit in spite of shield bonus hit him on the exposed side. A whip could hit an armored fighter in the face, or wrap around an arm and wrench it to do similar damage to a bludgeoning weapon. A crit/sneak attack with a whip which does enough damage to kill has wrapped right around the neck and broken it with a quick yank. I think you could easily houserule that whips do leathal damage on a crit or when used with a successful sneak attack, two cases which explicitly assume striking a vulnerable area. In both cases, and with magical whips of any sort I would also ignore the armor bonus restrictions. (I would ignore them in general, but thats a bit more extreme house rule.)Kahuna Burger</blockquote>

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