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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6380603" data-attributes="member: 57383">If you're worried about weapon damage resistance, why not take some or all of them out? They're only books, after all, so it might not be that difficult to slash their pages or break their spines. I could see they might be resistant to piercing damage - shooting an arrow into a book wouldn't do it that much structural harm, after all.Giving them a Weak Point/Called Shot trait is problematic for several reasons.Firstly, construct are usually pretty homogeneous so unless their construction specifies they're particularly prone to breakdown (e.g. some kind of clockwork creations) or have a specific point of failure (the word on the forehead of the classic Golem of Prague, an "animating gem" in its heart, or whatever) they are unlikely to be particularly vulnerable to criticals.Secondly, they're a swarm - even if you hit a weak spot on one of them, there's still a mob of others flapping about.I guess a weak point would make sense if there was one book that animated/controlled/guided all the other books in the swarm - a "master index" or something, so targeting it specifically would reduce the combat effectiveness of the entire swarm.</blockquote>