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At 12:21 PM 7/16/2009, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:11 PM,
Wayne Shaw <<a href="mailto:shaw@caprica.com">shaw@caprica.com</a>>
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<dd>Huh. That must have been a change in RQ3; I certainly don't
remember it from earlier editions.<br><br>
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It was indeed a change made for RQ3.</blockquote><br>
Now that my memory's been jogged, I even remember why it was done; there
was an issue about crits against unarmored targets at one time; an
interim rule had it bypass armor or do max damage if unarmored, but this
had very peculiar effects where someone was vastly better off with even
minimal armor (a point, say), so they made the problem go away.<br><br>
Ironically, impales got less nasty between RQ2 and RQ3.</body>
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