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<blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 1282668" data-attributes="member: 1211">My point about a hit to the knees, neck or elbow on a golem or undead is that a hit to any of those areas makes a better job of taking out the construct or undead then a hit to the torso.D&amp;D doesnt have hit locations but a critical hit is stated as a hit to a vital that does more damage then a regular hit. That means that the system has some kind of hit locations worked in; a kidney, brain or heart is a hit location.Therefore a critical attack against a golem wouldnt mean that you pierced the lungs of the golem but that you hit it in a weak spot in which an attack would do a lot to incapacitate the creature. A good example would be in a joint. A hit to knee of an iron golem wouldnt &quot;kill it&quot; directly, but it would defenitly hamper it's movements etc. As the D&amp;D system for wounds doesnt allow for kneecapping it is better simulated as a big damage to HP = a critical strike. Repeated critical strikes that would reduce the golem to 0 HP would be the total effect of hacking off the limbs of the golem. This wouldnt create any special effects during the combat but it would make the battle go faster and it would provide some descriptions for what happened in the game.But that's the logical reasons. If dealing criticals to constructs and undead was allowed their CRs would have to be reworked etc, which seems to be a lot of work for something that (IMO) isnt that much needed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="med stud, post: 1282668, member: 1211"] My point about a hit to the knees, neck or elbow on a golem or undead is that a hit to any of those areas makes a better job of taking out the construct or undead then a hit to the torso. D&D doesnt have hit locations but a critical hit is stated as a hit to a vital that does more damage then a regular hit. That means that the system has some kind of hit locations worked in; a kidney, brain or heart is a hit location. Therefore a critical attack against a golem wouldnt mean that you pierced the lungs of the golem but that you hit it in a weak spot in which an attack would do a lot to incapacitate the creature. A good example would be in a joint. A hit to knee of an iron golem wouldnt "kill it" directly, but it would defenitly hamper it's movements etc. As the D&D system for wounds doesnt allow for kneecapping it is better simulated as a big damage to HP = a critical strike. Repeated critical strikes that would reduce the golem to 0 HP would be the total effect of hacking off the limbs of the golem. This wouldnt create any special effects during the combat but it would make the battle go faster and it would provide some descriptions for what happened in the game. But that's the logical reasons. If dealing criticals to constructs and undead was allowed their CRs would have to be reworked etc, which seems to be a lot of work for something that (IMO) isnt that much needed. [/QUOTE]

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