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<blockquote data-quote="AnthonyJ" data-source="post: 1227623" data-attributes="member: 13807">So all rifles should be touch attacks?Significant doubt as whether this is true.&nbsp; Plenty of stories of knights with dozens of arrows sticking out of their armor and no significant injury.Um...the point is not that medieval weapons will blow through armor (the DnD system is not terrible for medieval weapons vs medieval armor unless you're using arbalests), the point is that there are weapons that will blow through armor.More relevant to DnD, a lot of monsters are fully capable of striking through armor; a suit of medieval armor will not stop a greataxe swung by a giant.In the fantasy genre, the way the warrior survives against the giant is because the giant will actually have trouble hitting.&nbsp; In DnD, the giant almost never misses, and the fighter just sucks it up with hit points.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AnthonyJ, post: 1227623, member: 13807"] So all rifles should be touch attacks? Significant doubt as whether this is true. Plenty of stories of knights with dozens of arrows sticking out of their armor and no significant injury. Um...the point is not that medieval weapons will blow through armor (the DnD system is not terrible for medieval weapons vs medieval armor unless you're using arbalests), the point is that there are weapons that will blow through armor. More relevant to DnD, a lot of monsters are fully capable of striking through armor; a suit of medieval armor will not stop a greataxe swung by a giant. In the fantasy genre, the way the warrior survives against the giant is because the giant will actually have trouble hitting. In DnD, the giant almost never misses, and the fighter just sucks it up with hit points. [/QUOTE]

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