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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azlan" data-source="post: 872205" data-attributes="member: 2340">Historically speaking, peasants armed with daggers were able to stab through the joints of plate armor only when those knights were outnumbered and overwhelmed, and pinned down to the ground. Oh, one might get a lucky shot and stab a plate-armored knight through an open joint. (But even then, the dagger would have to deal with the mail armor inside. Easier to deal with than plate, true; but still.) But, really, it's extremely difficult to aim for such a small opening while the knight is moving around -- and all the more so while he's swinging a bastardsword at the wretched dagger wielder.Not necessarily. The greatsword user can afford to be less reliant on the Bypass Armor feat (or the Power Attack feat, for that matter) to penetrate armor than the dagger user, since the former weapon with its d12 damage inherently has a better chance of getting damage past armor DR than the latter with its d4 damage.What constitutes a "light" weapon, anyway? All tiny and small weapons? But with such a blanket policy, halfling nunchakus, daggers, and light picks all have the same armor penetrating capabilities, which isn't realistic or historical. Beside, with such a blanket policy, you're making armors that give DR 2 or less (4 or less if the attacker has the Bypass Armor feat) worthless.Leather armor, which would give DR 2 (using method #2, above), should give full protection against halfling nunchakus.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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