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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5358954" data-attributes="member: 19675">Despite having spines, bones, joints, and sometimes organs, the undead do not typically have true weak spots.&nbsp; Their forms are not held together or animated by muscle &amp; sinew, but magic.&nbsp; You could dip some undead in acid, destroying all their flesh and it wouldn't slow them down; some would even have it reappear.&nbsp; Their organs- if they have any- are essentially non-functional, so stabbing them makes no difference.&nbsp; Even the legendary heart of the vampire is not so much a vital organ as the anchor of some kind of unholy magic- it is disupted not from any old stab, but only by a blow delivered by a wooden stake.&nbsp; In some legends, the wood had to be of a specific kind, typically ash, hawthorn or oak.&nbsp; That's not a vital organ, that's disrupting magic.Constructs vary a bit too, but like undead, most have no true vital spots.&nbsp; With the exception of the flesh variety, golems have no joints to strike- they are constructed as non-articulated statuary.&nbsp; Their limbs bend only and entirely through magic.&nbsp; They have no skeleton, no musculature, no organs.&nbsp; Clockwork critters may actually have vital spots- they do at least have joints- but beyond that, they are probably built with many redundancies.&nbsp; Then there's still that animated by magic issue.&nbsp; Is the magic merely a power source that substitutes for the hand and winding key?&nbsp; Or is the frame of the clockwork being akin to the body of an undead creature, the physical manifestation and receptacle for powerful magics which must disrupted before physical attacks have any meaningful effect?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5358954, member: 19675"] Despite having spines, bones, joints, and sometimes organs, the undead do not typically have true weak spots. Their forms are not held together or animated by muscle & sinew, but magic. You could dip some undead in acid, destroying all their flesh and it wouldn't slow them down; some would even have it reappear. Their organs- if they have any- are essentially non-functional, so stabbing them makes no difference. Even the legendary heart of the vampire is not so much a vital organ as the anchor of some kind of unholy magic- it is disupted not from any old stab, but only by a blow delivered by a wooden stake. In some legends, the wood had to be of a specific kind, typically ash, hawthorn or oak. That's not a vital organ, that's disrupting magic. Constructs vary a bit too, but like undead, most have no true vital spots. With the exception of the flesh variety, golems have no joints to strike- they are constructed as non-articulated statuary. Their limbs bend only and entirely through magic. They have no skeleton, no musculature, no organs. Clockwork critters may actually have vital spots- they do at least have joints- but beyond that, they are probably built with many redundancies. Then there's still that animated by magic issue. Is the magic merely a power source that substitutes for the hand and winding key? Or is the frame of the clockwork being akin to the body of an undead creature, the physical manifestation and receptacle for powerful magics which must disrupted before physical attacks have any meaningful effect? [/QUOTE]

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