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<blockquote data-quote="Zerovoid" data-source="post: 1283426" data-attributes="member: 283">I'm not sure how I feel about crits on constructs in general, but I think med stud has sort of a point here.If you chop off a golem's legs, it can't walk anymore.&nbsp; Sure, it can kind of try to attack you by pulling itself toward you with its arms, but its ability to hurt you is sure going to be reduced.Maybe you can't really ever &quot;kill&quot; a golem anyway, all you can do is hack off enough pieces that its harmless, so maybe this is what HP represents, and damage to a leg of limb probably does this better than damage to the torso or head?&nbsp; Or can you kill a golem?&nbsp; Does it die once it loses some critical amount of its body mass, and the animating magic leaves it.&nbsp; I'm not really sure.In regards to the robots that the original poster asked about, they can certainly have a special rule saying they are susceptible to critical hits.&nbsp; It makes sense to me that a real robot does have critical areas like a power core or a CPU.&nbsp; Damaging these areas could destroy the robot without having to hack the whole thing apart.&nbsp; This is very different than, say, a clay golem.&nbsp; A clay golem is just made all of the same thing, and probably doesn't need any given chuck of clay more than any other chunk of clay.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zerovoid, post: 1283426, member: 283"] I'm not sure how I feel about crits on constructs in general, but I think med stud has sort of a point here. If you chop off a golem's legs, it can't walk anymore. Sure, it can kind of try to attack you by pulling itself toward you with its arms, but its ability to hurt you is sure going to be reduced. Maybe you can't really ever "kill" a golem anyway, all you can do is hack off enough pieces that its harmless, so maybe this is what HP represents, and damage to a leg of limb probably does this better than damage to the torso or head? Or can you kill a golem? Does it die once it loses some critical amount of its body mass, and the animating magic leaves it. I'm not really sure. In regards to the robots that the original poster asked about, they can certainly have a special rule saying they are susceptible to critical hits. It makes sense to me that a real robot does have critical areas like a power core or a CPU. Damaging these areas could destroy the robot without having to hack the whole thing apart. This is very different than, say, a clay golem. A clay golem is just made all of the same thing, and probably doesn't need any given chuck of clay more than any other chunk of clay. [/QUOTE]

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